Plan B Forum

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.

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

and a couple fell asleep and started snoring.