7) Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
Long before she became a Hollywood cautionary tale, Lindsay Lohan was most definitely one of Disney’s biggest breakout stars in the early 2000s. We’ll get to some of her most successful work for the studio later, but this attempt to remake/reboot Disney’s long-running Herbie franchise – which began with The Love Bug in 1968 – did surprisingly solid business when it hit theaters a full 25 years after the previous installment.
[zergpaid]On a $50 million production budget, the film went on to earn $144 million worldwide. Perhaps that can be credited to Lohan’s appeal at the time or simply how the movie leveraged the built-in appeal for the NASCAR fanbase, as it features cameos by drivers like Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Whatever the case may be, it proved to be short-term success that never led to the sequel Disney likely hoped for.