Batgirl has become the latest film to be added to a growing list of films on the cutting room floor.

The $US90 million film was shot and largely edited but the whole thing will be consigned to dust.

Deakin University film, TV and animation lecturer Sian Mitchell has written a piece about other movies that, like Batgirl, never saw the big screen… or any screen for that matter.

“It’s such a massive sum of money,” she told Gareth Parker on 6PR Breakfast about the loss film studios took on when cancelling films at the last minute.

Listen to Dr Mitchell reveal other big-budget films that recently canned