Warren Beatty's new movie FLOPS with 'one of the worst debuts of all time'

Warren Beatty’s first movie in 15 years, ‘Rules Don’t Apply’, in which he plays eccentric businessman Howard Hughes, has bombed at the box office.

In fact, it’s earned the ignominious honour of being one of the worst debut movies of all time opening on over 2000 screens.

It’s earned $2.2 million (£1.75 million) over the five day Thanksgiving holiday in the US, from 2,382 theatres.

That works out as just $184 (£147) per cinema.

The $25 million (£20 million), star-laden movie also stars Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Steve Coogan, Ed Harris, Martin Sheen and Beatty’s wife Annette Bening, in a story about the relationship between a young actress and her driver, a relationship forbidden by their employer Howard Hughes.

Beatty hasn’t appeared in a movie role since 2001’s ‘Town & Country’. Perhaps after the performance of ‘Rules Don’t Apply’, he won’t be rushing back.

It received mix result from the critics too.

In The Hollywood Reporter, Todd McCarthy wrote: “At once an amusingly eccentric take on a billionaire fixated with controlling other people’s lives and a romance about a young couple constipated by the conservative religious and social sexual mores of the 1950s, this is a fitfully funny quasi-farce that takes off promisingly, loses its way mid-flight and comes in for a bumpy but safe landing.”

The Guardian’s Jordan Hoffman added: “The legend’s odd and energetic film is a mix of fun, sadness and fatigue, and while not everything falls into place, it has its share of entertainment.”

It’s due out in the UK on January 27, going up against Mel Gibson’s celebrated new war movie ‘Hacksaw Ridge’.

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