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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Lions for Lambs," the star-studded first film from United Artists since Tom Cruise and his longtime producing partner took over the fabled studio, has so far generated more yawns than roars at box offices. After three weeks in theaters, the antiwar drama directed by Robert Redford with an A-list cast featuring Redford, Cruise and Meryl Streep, has grossed a meager $14 million in North American ticket sales and about $26 million more overseas. That tally surpasses the $35 million reportedly spent to make the film, which was distributed domestically by UA parent company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and...

The Robert Redford movie "Lions for Lambs" has been a box-office disappointment. It grossed $6.7 million during its first weekend earlier this month, placing it fourth behind "Bee Movie" ($25.6 million), "American Gangster" ($24 million) and "Fred Claus" ($18.5 million). It is not ordinarily big news when a movie does poorly. Indeed, Mr. Redford's film has been savaged by critics, which makes its paltry ticket sales even less of a surprise. Still, its weakness at the box office has been the focus of attention. On November 6, USA Today published an article, "Movie Fans Vote 'No' on Politically Charged Films."...

Lions for Lambs ranked 19th in the average total box office proceeds per theater per day over the 11/16-11/18 weekend. Because of the large number of theaters carrying this film it ranked 8th in gross proceeds. Box office per theater is what theater owners care most about and this poor showing will hasten the dropoff in total theaters carrying this bomb. Movie Fri Sat Sun Avg Rank NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 6,014 8,682 6,236 6,977 1 MARGOT AT THE WEDDING 1,500 6,500 3,500 3,833 2 BEOWULF 3,148 3,330 2,434 2,971 3 OM SHANTI OM 1,880 3,291 2,906 2,692 4...

The antiwar movie Lions for Lambs is definitely a bomb/dud at the boxoffice. More people give this movie a flunking grade than all other grades combined. The opposite of Lions for Lambs is the movie Bella, which is only playing at under 500 theaters -- despite some good numbers from the box office with nothing but a grassroots mode of telling people about the movie. In the case of Lions for Lambs, the liberal left loonies of Hollywood wanted to come up with an Anti-war movie to hurt the conservatives in time for the 2008 Election. Seems they have instead...

LIONS FOR LAMBS United Artists # Thteaters 2,216 $11,592,000 estimated gross proceeds through 10 days of release. Lions for Lambs is a bomb!

What this movie is going to be about is evident from the start because they telegraph it with a flare gun. We fade in to the latest casualty report from Iraq. It's bad news, the report and the movie, really a filmed polemic that gives new meaning to the term "talkie." Here Hollywood liberals showcase their incoherence and fondle their favorite incantation. In Lions for Lambs, the war on terror is nothing more than a replay of Vietnam. Ambitious, warmongering politicians are sending kids, especially blacks and latinos, to die in fields afar, victims of inept strategy and an overextended,...

Hollywood misreads response to war on terror Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 12/11/2007 Hollywood has misjudged the public's appetite for films about Iraq and the war on terror, Cathering Elsworth says, as a slew of new movies have flopped at the box office. The latest casualty, Robert Redford's "verbose" Lions for Lambs, starring Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, took just over 2 million dollars when it debuted on Friday, lagging far behind the animated adventure Bee Movie, which opened the week before. Cruise, Redford and Streep in Lions for Lambs Despite its a-list cast - Redford not only directs but stars...

Liars for Lambs   By Debbie SchlusselDebbieSchlussel.com | Monday, November 12, 2007 Benjamin Disraeli--and later Mark Twain--said there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. But today, there are lies, damn lies, and anti-war movies.The latest didactic, silver screen mythology emanating from Hollywood is "Lions for Lambs," starring (and directed by) Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, and Meryl Streep, and in theaters now. The film's rewriting of history and Middle Eastern religious dynamics is disturbing. And its statements about our military and alleged racism are unconscionable. As Americans get more and more of their "history" from on-screen fiction, the fairy tales...

LOS ANGELES - Jerry Seinfeld turned more honey into money as his animated comedy “Bee Movie” buzzed to the top of the box office in its second weekend. The DreamWorks-Paramount flick, which had debuted at No. 2 behind Universal’s “American Gangster” the previous weekend, packed in family crowds to pull in $26 million, raising its total to $72.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “American Gangster,” starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, was a strong No. 2 with $24.3 million in sales, lifting its total to $80.7 million.

LOS ANGELES—Jerry Seinfeld continued to turn honey into money as his animated comedy "Bee Movie" buzzed to the top of the box office in its second weekend. The DreamWorks-Paramount flick, which had debuted at No. 2 behind Universal's "American Gangster" the previous weekend, packed in family crowds to pull in $26 million, raising its total to $72.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. "American Gangster," starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, was a strong No. 2 with $24.3 million, lifting its total to $80.7 million. "We don't often see a movie start out in the No. 2 position then move...

I thought you all may enojoy reading the CRUSHING reviews from the regular movie audience of Robert Redford's new anti-America flick "Lions for Lambs." How Hollywood can contiue to dishonor our U.S. Armed Forces is simply beyond me. Anyway, at least these reviews by regular folks shows that real America is rejecting this nonsense. Some reviews: (more reviews at the link) Pure Garbage..... I had the opportunity to see this last week during a free screening (my wife got the tickets through work). I think I was robbed. About 20% of the audience walked out before it was over, the...

LIONS FOR LAMBS United Artists 2,215 Theaters $2,150,000

Yes, another in a long line of leftwing propaganda movies attacking the EVIL Bush Regime has come out. And it is also another FLOP as you can see in these scathing reviews of "Lions For Lambs" over at ROTTEN TOMATOES. Watching the trailer below, I don't know what creeped me out more: Robert Redford's scary face or the idea of Tom Cruise as a U.S. Senator. So let us now watch the scorching reviews of this tedious propaganda flick in Rotten Tomato Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting this flick went in like a Lion and...

...Blogger David Atkins of the Daily Kos! I kid you not. That is in the ad for the film that is playing right now. I just happened to catch the DK part and, thanks to Tivo, caught this on tape. (Now if I could only transfer videos from Tivo to my PC.) The end of the ad for this movie are the usual "Extraordinary" and "Must See" and both of these endorsements come from this same Daily Kos diarist. I guess they know their target audience. Here is his bio: Atkins is president and founder of The Pollux Group, Inc.,...

Reese Witherspoon can't be pleased with the performance of her new movie "Rendition." It is a colossal bomb and will disappear as quickly as one of the movie's characters, courtesy of the evil CIA, of course. Once again, Hollywood is on a "let's make America look bad" binge. This is directly caused by loathing for the Bush administration, which the entertainment left sees as a combination of the Third Reich and Emperor Nero. Thus, a series of earnest "America is a human-rights violator" films are coming to a theater near you, and the odds are you will ignore them. Good....

"Tom Cruise underplayed the politics, leaving it to Robert Redford to lash out against the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at the center of "Lions for Lambs," for which the pair held their first presser Tuesday at the Rome Film Festival.(snip) "Our country has hit a point where we have lost so much," he said. "We have lost lives, we've lost sacred freedoms, we've lost financial stability; we've lost our position of respect on the world stage."(said Redford) Cruise, kept largely above the political fray, merely expressing hope that the talky multi-strand pic in which he plays a...

Dan Snyder is supporting Robert Redford’s eloquent anti-war film, "Lions for Lambs." The owner of the Washington Redskins, a heavy Republican donor and business partner of an even bigger one, Snyder sent this column an endorsement on Saturday. Snyder's PR guy, Karl Swanson, forwarded this e-mail to FOXNews.com: "'Lions for Lambs' causes Snyder no 'uneasy moments,'" Snyder wrote in reaction to a column I wrote here on Friday. Dan Snyder "and a group of friends screened it 10 days ago and he found the film engaging and intelligent and the performances riveting." The fact that Snyder — a major donor...

"Valley of Elah," Lions for Lambs", "Redacted"...Sheesh. Doesn't anybody make movies anymore?

Lions For Lambs Trailer link