Lions for Lambs bombs
Tom Cruise's new film Lions for Lambs grossed a dismal $6.7 million over the weekend, enough for fourth place. The result is particularly disappointing for Cruise as the film marked the first release from his new company, the resurrected United Artists. A UA spinmeister said:
"We performed right at the pre-weekend predictions and are glad to have done that. Given the modest production and marketing budgets we do not need to be a blockbuster hit. Everyone at United Artists are very proud of the film and could not have had a more perfect filmmaker to have made our first film." (Source)
Two words why this movie failed this past weekend: Fred Claus. How can a film compete against a juggernaut like that instant classic. Rumor is Vince Vaughn's movie is actually going to replace A Christmas Story on TBS's Christmas Day marathon. Or maybe it's being used to replace waterboarding as the US Government's preferred method of torture. I don't know, definitely one of those two. In the end though, perhaps the movie didn't do so well because it's about the War in Iraq. If the public wanted to watch a couple of hours of old people whining about that they'd tune in to Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
