Man (very) down

[Gob]

While Emma Watson's Beauty and the Beast continued its box office burning run, Shia LaBeouf was setting a different kind of ticket sales record.

The troubled actor's new war thriller Man Down earned just £7 ($11.50) at the UK box office during its theatrical opening this weekend, Variety reports.

Of course, there's context. The film, which was simultaneously released digitally for download and streaming, opened in just one cinema in Burnley.

But even that doesn't excuse its dismal pull: The Void, a Canadian horror movie starring Ellen Wong, also opened in just one cinema this weekend and took in £1613 ($2650), according to The Independent.

Man Down, a thriller set amidst the war in Afghanistan, also stars Sydney actor Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad) and Oscar nominee Gary Oldman. It reunited LaBeouf with Dino Montiel, the director of his 2006 indie breakthrough A Guide To Recognising Your Saints.

The film was released in the US in December last year where it grossed $US454,490 ($600,530), following an opening run at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.

"The script landed on my lap at just the right time - [Montiel] came to my house when I was at a really low place and offered it to me like therapy, like, 'Here's a healing process where we can jump into together and get well,'" LaBeouf said about the film at Venice.

But negative reviews – the film has a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 15 – saw its theatrical run largely shelved internationally.

[Long Run]

Sounds like a movie CP will use in "Name that Movie" in 10 years.

[Crackpot]

Not a lebouf fan.

[Econoline]

What makes that news story even sadder is that it means that one person sat alone in a movie theater, watching it...

[BoSoxGal]

What makes that news story even sadder is that it means that one person sat alone in a movie theater, watching it...

I've been in that position a couple of times in my life and it was FANTASTIC! Introverts love that, and there are lots of us out there - so maybe not so sad?

[Big RR]

I've only had that happen once, and I enjoyed it as well. Indeed, I didn't have to deal with the chattering, people get up and down a bunch of times, etc and could just enjoy the movie; and since it was a movie of the type that not everyone would love, that's a real treat. I recently went (with a friend who liked the same sort of film) to a local "art" movie house to see a Korean film (The Handmaiden), and it was clear that a number there weren't expecting there movie that was shown; every time there was another scene (after an hour or so) they expressed their disapproval of the movie not just ending (if that's how you feel, shy not just leave), made inane comments, and a couple fell asleep and started snoring.
Hardly, a setting conducive to watching a film--alone would have been preferable.

[oldr_n_wsr]

and a couple fell asleep and started snoring.

That was you next to us the last time we went to the movies?!?!?!?

Thanks for not waking us up.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Gob went to see "The Handmaiden", Big RR. He too was disappointed in his expectations and ended up throwing a box of Kleenex at the screen.

Shame.

[Gob]