DreamWorks executives may be feeling somewhat burned after its new animated film, "How to Train Your Dragon," fired up just US$43.3 million at the weekend box office.
That dark mood is understandable. "Alice in Wonderland," by comparison, raked in US$116.1 million during its opening weekend earlier in March of 2010.
But it could be worse. Consider the numbers released for the Uma Thurman comedy, "Motherhood."
On the third day of its opening at a prominent London theatre, the Manhattan-based comedy pulled in just one viewer.
In total, only 13 moviegoers purchased tickets to see the Oscar nominee's new film about a full-time housewife who sets out to celebrate her daughter's 6th birthday. Thurman shared billing in this fiasco with Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver.
The film's total weekend take was just US$130. When "Motherhood" had a limited release in the U.S. last fall, it earned US$50,000.
The film's reviews were also brutal.
"Uma overload" is how American film critic Richard Roeper described this dog.
Lou Lumenick of the New York Post slammed "Motherhood" with these words: "If Carrie Bradshaw ever trades her Manolos for sneakers and starts blogging about raising children, I pray she wouldn't be as tiresome as the heroine of Katherine Dieckmann's insufferable comedy "Motherhood."
Remarkably, this enormous flop at the UK box office can still be topped.
"Zyzzxx Road," John Penney's 2006 thriller co-starring Katherine Heigl, attracted eight paying moviegoers during its opening weekend.
The film's take was US$30.
Theatrical duds can still redeem themselves in DVD format, where less-than-stellar films can make millions.
Judging by its cataclysmic opening, Thurman's "Motherhood" has a long way to go to before it can give birth to respectable DVD stats that can redeem this disaster.
SHITTY!
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