Box Office: The image in your head of how cool a DiCaprio/Crowe/Scott movie would be was just LIES!
I don't think it's a stretch to say that we all kinda saw this one coming. Though I haven't seen Ridley Scott's latest movie BODY OF LIES yet, I will say that either him, the marketing at Warner Bros. or maybe both have produced one confusing and boring as hell looking thriller. I wouldn't have paid my hard earned money to see it. They never really sold a movie to me, just flashy cuts, weird dialogue and images. At this weekend's U.S. box office, BODY OF LIES took a miserable $12.9 million, well short of it's $70 million project budget which it won't make back now. It's another in a long line of failing movies dealing with Middle-East terror and continues the up and down reception Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott team-ups are getting in this post-GLADIATOR world. Not winning against a talking dog movie in it's second week and a quick low-grade remake of a Spanish horror film, shows something went severely wrong somewhere.
"We thought we could break through with the clutter with this one...But I think the climate out there makes for bad timing with anything dealing with terrorism."BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHA, $17.5 million in it's second week. Jesus Christ. $52.5 million that movie has made now. Only in America, huh? QUARANTINE, a quick remake of the awesome Spanish horror REC and starring no notable names, also managed to open higher than Scott's movie with $14.2 million. EAGLE EYE is a success, up to $70 million domestic on a $80 million budget, as is NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST with $10 million more than it's $10 million budget after just 10 days. Though it doesn't look likely it will get the Oscar buzz of a JUNO. And sadly, the really cool looking Western which because my local theatres are so crap, I haven't been able to see in APPALOOSA is struggling to make it's $20 million budget back as it's stuck on $10 million and it's starting to fade, making only $3.2 million. source - usa today