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The New Richard Gere Movie Has Flopped In Epic Style

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Time was Richard Gere’s name on the marquee would guarantee a certain number of folk through the door.

But the days of white officer’s garb and love lifting us up where we belong appear to be long gone.

His latest movie, ‘The Benefactor’, made a bafflingly paltry £25 on its opening weekend in the UK.

While it only opened in two cinemas – perhaps a warning sign in itself - £12.50 per screen truly is an achievement of sorts.

The film, released in the US in January, did marginally better in the States making $1.9 million (about £1.3 million), but it’s doubtful it’ll turn a profit with figures like this.

Telling the story of 'a newly married couple forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist’, it took something of a kicking at the hands of the critics too.

In The Times, Kevin Maher called the film 'a character portrait in search of a movie’, while Cath Clarke in Time Out pondered 'has Richard Gere been hitting the bong?’

The movie is not short on a decent cast, however, with Gere joined by Dakota Fanning, chiseled Brit actor Theo James and 'The Wire’s Clarke Peters.

Perhaps it’ll pick up the numbers next weekend….

Could it be as bad as all that? Check out the trailer below.

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Image credit: Samuel Goldwyn Films