: DEPALMA IRAQ FLICK BOMBS

: November 25, 2007 -- It's hard for Hollywood
: pacifists like Brian De Palma to capture the
: hearts and minds of America if
: Americans won't see their movies. While the
: public is staying away in droves from
: “Rendition," “Lions for Lambs" and
: “In the Valley of Elah," audiences are
: really avoiding “Redacted," De Palma's
: picture about US soldiers who rape a
: 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then kill her and
: her family. The message movie was produced
: by NBA Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban,
: who insisted on deleting grisly images of
: Iraqi war casualties from the montage at the
: film's end. Cuban offered to sell the film
: back to De Palma at cost, but the director
: was too smart to go for that deal.
: “Redacted" - which “could be the worst
: movie I've ever seen," said critic
: Michael Medved -took in just $25,628 in its
: opening weekend in 15 theaters, which means
: roughly 3,000 people saw it in the entire
: country. “This, despite an A-list director,
: a huge wave of publicity, high praise in the
: Times, The New Yorker, left-leaning sites
: like Salon, etc. A Joe Strummer documentary
: [of punk-rock band The Clash] playing in
: fewer theaters made more in its third
: week," e-mailed one cineaste. “Not even
: people who presumably agree with the movie's
: antiwar thesis made the effort to see
: it."

let's see.... $1,708 per theater. Now that is some bad stuff.

Serves 'em right.

Scum.