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.
1 Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) $17.5M $17.5M 2 Quarantine (2008) $14.2M $14.2M 3 Body of Lies (2008) $12.9M $12.9M 4 Eagle Eye (2008) $10.9M $70.4M 5 Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) $6.42M $20.7M 6 The Express (2008) $4.56M $4.56M 7 Nights in Rodanthe (2008) $4.54M $32.3M 8 Appaloosa (2008) $3.32M $10.9M 9 The Duchess (2008) $3.3M $5.6M 10 Fireproof (2008) $3.14M $16.9M Dan Fellman of Warner Bros. tried to blame the current climate but instead should have been firing people in his own marketing department for sub standard trailers and posters..."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