Oh wait, I mean IT's a bomb; $126 dollars in the opening weekend...congrats, douchebag!

http://www.foxnews.com/enterta...uct-allegations.html

Following allegations of sexual misconduct against an underage boy, Kevin Spacey’s career has hit an all-time low. The star’s latest film, “Billionaire Boys Club” opened to a staggeringly low $126.

The film, which co-stars Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton, was released on VOD last month and opened in just eight theaters over the weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film suffers from not being released in Los Angeles or New York, instead opting for a quiet release in cities scattered across the U.S. such as Phoenix, Detroit, New Orleans, Miami and Hartford.

The outlet notes that the film opened to just $126 on Friday, only earning another $162 for Saturday. At this rate, the film’s full weekend box office report will have difficulty just scratching $425. Factoring in the average ticket price in the United States, an estimate of only six people showed up in each cinema over the weekend to see the film.

For reference, the top performing movie over the weekend was “Crazy Rich Asians,” which took $25.2 million from 3,348 locations.

As previously reported, Spacey was accused by “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Anthony Rapp of making a sexual advance on him when he was 14-years-old and Spacey was 26. The accusations led to authorities in Los Angeles and London to open investigations into the actor. Since then Spacey, now 59, has not only been staying out of the limelight, but is being kept out of the limelight.

He was fired from Season 6 of his popular Netflix series “House of Cards,” which will be ending after one final season without him. Additionally, he was replaced by actor Christopher Plummer in the film “All the Money in the World” after the allegations came out. That makes “Billionaire Boys Club,” of which he has a supporting role, Spacey’s first foray into the public life since the allegations.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the studio that produced the film, “Vertical Entertainment, released a statement about Spacey’s involvement, urging fans to remember that it was made prior to the allegations becoming public.

“We hope these distressing allegations pertaining to one person’s behavior — that were not publicly known when the film was made almost two-and-a-half years ago and from someone who has a small, supporting role in ‘Billionaire Boys Club’ — does not tarnish the release of the film,” the statement read. “In the end, we hope audiences make up their own minds as to the reprehensible allegations of one person’s past, but not at the expense of the entire cast and crew present on this film.”

The film chronicles the real-life club of the same name that made headlines in Southern California during the 1980s when a get-rich-quick scheme turned sideways on the high-rolling people involved. Spacey plays real-life investor and con-man Rob Levin in the film.

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The film suffers from not being released in Los Angeles or New York

They must have spread a rumor that Spacey is a conservative.



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I used to really enjoy films with Spacey in them. I enjoyed his skills as a musician on the late night talk shows - before these became nauseating.

Now I have no stomach for this creep.

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urging fans to remember that it was made prior to the allegations becoming public.

begs the question of 'what did he do and when did he do it'..............

the other ignored question is "what ever happened to the notion of 'presumption of innocence' prior to legal judgement".

I've never been a Spacey fan in any case.

$126 dollars divided by 8 theaters is approx 15 bucks per theater on Friday.

He is a very talented actor, but as an outspoken leftist commie hypocrite, he doesn't get a pass.
Seems karma is a bitch in the commie world nowadays.

Which is a shame considering it negatively impacts several other people who had nothing to do with the claims against him, and those people had no knowledge of those claims at the time they invested their resources into the project.

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Kevin Spacey's new movie release is the bomb!

I opened this thread hoping it involved his being blown up. No such luck.

Neither here nor there, but I always get Kevin Spacey and Kevin Pollak confused. Spacey...idiot. Pollak...pretty good guy (not sure of his politics).

In a previous life, I worked in the medical field. I worked in a learning center, where fourth-year, soon-to-be opotometrists had three month rotations through the facility. A student from SUNY was soooo excited one day and I asked him why. He told me that he had been invited to spend a three day weekend at Kevin Spacey's house.

I don't care about the sexual allegations against Spacey, but since all this has come out, I keep hearing stories about the guy being a real bully asshole, just a douchebag deluxe.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
“We hope these distressing allegations pertaining to one person’s behavior — that were not publicly known when the film was made almost two-and-a-half years ago and from someone who has a small, supporting role in ‘Billionaire Boys Club’ — does not tarnish the release of the film,” the statement read.

Except I can't help but wonder what their marketing campaign would have looked like if Spacey hadn't gotten into hot water.

Would they still have dismissed his "small supporting role", or would a big name actor like Kevin Spacey have been front-and-center in their marketing of the film?

When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

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lemme see

$126

thats 4 tickets, two large popcorns and a soda...