In hindsight, marrying the daughter of WWE boss Vince McMahon was the best movie Triple H could have made not only from a wrestling business standpoint, but also because he never had a shot at the movie stardom enjoyed by his frequent foes The Rock and Steve Austin. Triple H had a supporting role as a vampire in 2005's Blade: Trinity, which the least successful Blade movie both commercially and critically. He then had a small part (as a wrestler, naturally) in 2006's Relative Strangers, which never made it to theaters. Five years later Triple H appeared in two WWE Studios releases, the comedy The Chaperone (which grossed less than $44,000 worldwide against a $3 million budget) and the action film Inside Out, which was only released to ten U.S. theaters. And since then, Hunter has stuck to limited in-ring appearances and acting on WWE TV as an authority figure. That's probably because when WWE did its third quarter earnings report in 2011, the company blamed WWE Studio's $5.1 million losses on Knucklehead, The Chaperone, and Inside Out. In this case, two out of three is really bad.
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