{"id":9731,"date":"2010-03-30T06:40:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9731"},"modified":"2010-03-29T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:13:10","slug":"uma-thurman-film-is-mother-of-all-flops-times-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9731","title":{"rendered":"Flophood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uma Thurman&#8217;s latest, <em>Motherhood<\/em>, flopped badly in the US, bringing in only $40,000 toward a $3.5 million budget.<\/p>\n<p>But that was great compared to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/film\/article7078845.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&amp;attr=797084\">its showing in the UK<\/a>; opening weekend brought in a grand total of 11 viewers, including only one on its debut Sunday.\u00a0 The total take for its UK opening weekend?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a388.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barry Norman, the critic, said it was \u201castonishing\u201d that only 11 people could be bothered to go and see a film starring Thurman. \u201cThe reviews were very poor indeed but that alone isn\u2019t enough to explain it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True.<\/p>\n<p>But the Tarantino Curse <em>does <\/em>explain it.\u00a0 Working with Tarantino seems to have become a Faustian bargain for stars; make big bank now, and get on the train for palookaville later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uma Thurman&#8217;s latest, Motherhood, flopped badly in the US, bringing in only $40,000 toward a $3.5 million budget. But that was great compared to\u00a0its showing in the UK; opening weekend brought in a grand total of 11 viewers, including only one on its debut Sunday.\u00a0 The total take for its UK opening weekend? \u00a388. Barry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9735,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions\/9735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}