9:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Further accelerating his apparent collapse from coveted leading man to salt-and-pepper has-been,
revised opening weekend figures for George Clooney’s
Leatherheads put the screwball gridiron comedy at a lackluster $12.6 million — a full million below Universal’s original report and only enough for a third-place finish behind
21 and
Nim’s Island. While we maintain our original suspicion that
no film can withstand a Reel Geezers pan, we don’t actually think this portends the catastrophe foretold by
more dedicated skeptics. We also appreciate Steven Zeitchik’s
moral support on Clooney’s behalf at his
Risky Biz blog: “Clooney hasn’t opened a movie in a decade. Apart from the
Ocean’s pics — which the presence of Damon and Pitt render useless as evidence — no Clooney-anchored movie in recent memory has cracked $13 million in its first weekend of wide release.
The Good German?
Michael Clayton?
Intolerable Cruelty? … Box office just isn’t his thing.” Yessir, colour us reassured. [
Reuters]
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