Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp’s much-anticipated movie, The Tourist, has bombed at the box office. The film failed to collect even 20 percent of the production cost in its opening weekend and fell flat in front of The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader which took around £19million.
The Sun reports,
The Tourist is thought to have taken just £12million over the weekend when it opened in the US – trounced by The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, which took around £19million. The thriller, set in Venice, cost around £63million to make but has been slated by critics. Hollywood blogger Nikkie Finke said it under-performed to the “point of desperation”. Experts predict it will be pulled from US cinemas within weeks. In the film, Angelina, 35, plays the English girlfriend of a thief wanted for robbing a gangster. Depp, 47, is an American teacher she meets on a train. Reviewers branded it “stupid” and said the pair lacked chemistry.
It’s surprising because the pre-release hype of this movie portrayed a different picture altogether. Moreover, it was Jolie and Depp’s first film together and both are crowd-pullers. Anyway, the most important factor in deciding any movie’s fate is the chemistry between the lead actors. Unfortunately, The Tourist seriously lacked it.
