Posted on 08/21/2016 11:09:05 AM PDT by EveningStar
During a weekend with three major new releases, holdovers “Suicide Squad,” from Warner Bros., and “Sausage Party,” from Sony, maintained their top spots at the box office. This means the big-budget reimagining of “Ben-Hur,” from Paramount Pictures and MGM, is one of the biggest flops of the summer.
The third version of Lew Wallace’s 19th century novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ” took in an estimated $11.4 million in the U.S and Canada, which was only good enough for fifth place. It met analyst projections of $10 million to $15 million, though the studio was aiming for an opening of $20 million in ticket sales. Such a performance is an unequivocal poor result for a movie that cost about $100 million to make (after rebates). The film brought in $10.7 million internationally.
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It helps if you’re used to the pacing of 19th Century novels.
all the familiarity with 19th century technique in the world could not save ‘Last of the Mohicans’...what absolute drudgery, trying to read it...
I haven’t tried to read any Cooper novels since junior high, when we didn’t have to read the whole thing, just excerpts in an anthology.
Sometimes there's just no substitute for real, live-action stunts.
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