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Category: box-office-disaster (6 posts)

Klara and the Sun Opens at $701K

via The box office autopsy: Deadline · Red carpet premiere photos: Deadline · The original trailer: Deadline · Collateral Beauty, the last time this happened: Deadline

Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun, starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, opened this weekend to $701,000 across 880 theaters, a per-screen average of under $800, per Deadline. SEVENTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. For a movie whose star has 39 million followers. 880 th…

Dench Calls Cats a Waste, Hasn't Seen It

via The memoir quotes: Variety · The Guardian's version: The Guardian · Digital Spy: Digital Spy · The Independent bulletin: The Independent

According to Variety, Judi Dench wrote in her forthcoming memoir "Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?" that Tom Hooper's 2019 "Cats" film was "a waste of all that goodwill and talent," adding, "I never saw the final cut so I can't judge." The actor, who playe…

Sorkin's Reckoning Got Rejected Like A Friend Request

via The numbers: $6M weekend, $30M budget: Deadline · Sorkin on Eisenberg: "It's infuriating": EW · Eisenberg turning it down, back in June: Deadline · NY premiere red carpet gallery: Deadline

The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's "Social Network" sequel, opened to $6 million this weekend against a budget around $30 million, according to Deadline. Jeremy Strong is playing Mark Zuckerberg after Jesse Eisenberg turned down the role. Sorkin went back to…

Digger Needed $350M, It Got $20M

via Cruise's defense: Variety · The box office report: Variety · The loss estimate: The Guardian · The merger tie-in: The New York Times

Tom Cruise's "Digger," Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satirical black comedy about an oil tycoon whose malfunctioning Antarctica drilling rig sends an ice cap hurtling toward Europe, opened to $8 million in North America and $20 million worldwide, and Cruise said in …

Cruise's Iceberg Sinks To $8 Million

via The tracking story: Page Six · The "decide for yourself" promo: EW · The July influencer press event: Page Six · The zero-star review: NY Post

The $135 million apocalypse satire "Digger" starring Tom Cruise is tracking an $8 million to $12 million opening this weekend, according to Page Six. The studio's new "decide for yourself" promo opens with a quote from a film influencer with 4,895 TikTok follo…