Gazereths
29-03-2010, 07:19 PM
Uma Thurman's latest movie is close to breaking records, but probably not in the way she'd like.
Motherhood has performed so abysmally at the box office it's close to becoming Britain's biggest ever flop.
The film, which focuses on a stressed-out Manhattan mummy rushing around the city struggling to juggle the daily trials and tribulations of motherhood, managed to take in £88 over the whole of its opening weekend.
To put that into context, that means there were 11 cinema goers who dragged themselves to see it, and only one viewer who saw it on Sunday.
With these shocking figures unsurprisingly comes a lot of finger pointing, with producer Jane Edelbaum demanding an explanation from distributor Metrodome, who decided to allow only one British cinema chain the exclusivity of showing it.
"'Think about how much crap succeeds at the cinema. Motherhood is not bad. It's a very decent movie. I've seen movie that are not half as good," she argued.
However, it's not all bad news, with the dubious honour of Britain's Biggest Flop going to 2007's Polish biopic My Nikifor, which took a whopping £7 at launch.
Then again, My Nikifor didn't have a premier Hollywood A-Lister in the starring role.
source: Sky.com
LOL this really cracked me up! £88 over the entire opening weekend? Watch your back Avatar :P
Motherhood has performed so abysmally at the box office it's close to becoming Britain's biggest ever flop.
The film, which focuses on a stressed-out Manhattan mummy rushing around the city struggling to juggle the daily trials and tribulations of motherhood, managed to take in £88 over the whole of its opening weekend.
To put that into context, that means there were 11 cinema goers who dragged themselves to see it, and only one viewer who saw it on Sunday.
With these shocking figures unsurprisingly comes a lot of finger pointing, with producer Jane Edelbaum demanding an explanation from distributor Metrodome, who decided to allow only one British cinema chain the exclusivity of showing it.
"'Think about how much crap succeeds at the cinema. Motherhood is not bad. It's a very decent movie. I've seen movie that are not half as good," she argued.
However, it's not all bad news, with the dubious honour of Britain's Biggest Flop going to 2007's Polish biopic My Nikifor, which took a whopping £7 at launch.
Then again, My Nikifor didn't have a premier Hollywood A-Lister in the starring role.
source: Sky.com
LOL this really cracked me up! £88 over the entire opening weekend? Watch your back Avatar :P