Variety: the film "Room 44" failed at the box office worldwide
The film "Room 44" the results start rolling weekend was enriched in USA only $600 thousand and $2 1 million in worldwide box office with a budget of $50 million, reports the journal.
"When you spend $50 million on drama, you must be sure that you take it at the right time and in the right place. If your Director is not Angelina Jolie, but the producer does not Steven Spielberg, it May not be worth and to take up shooting at such a moment. Currently the Film is more similar to the paintings that can be seen only on DVD, but not in the movie theaters, " the magazine quoted the words canaanitic Jeff Bock.
first it was announced that the Company "Central partnership" has withdrawn from the Ministry of culture's request for a distribution licence for the film " Room 44 ". The appeal noted that the results of the press view the Ministry has received questions about the content of the film: in the 1st turn on the distortion of historical facts and original interpretations of the events before, during and after the great Patriotic war, as well as images and characters of the inhabitants of the Soviet era.
In addition to Russia, from the screening of the film and did not want in Belarus, Georgia premiere was delayed until October, in Ukraine, the Film was withdrawn from the rental on request of the Russian organization " Central partnership ", which has the rights to the Film and within the Russian Federation, and Ukraine.
The film, which was filmed Daniel Espinosa, takes place in the USSR under Stalin. The main character is discredited by the Soviet intelligence officer Leo Demidov. As reported in the annotation to the picture, Demidov investigates a series of child murders, but his work is suspect in " paranoid Soviet government ". In the movie, played by Tom hardy, the numi Rapas, Gary Oldman, Vincent Cassel, and others.
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