A couple weeks ago we did a story about Venezuelan filmgoers complete rejection of Oliver Stone’s movie “South of the Border,” an impassioned defense of the South American country’s dictator. The total box office take during the movie’s first eleven days was a meager, but amusing $18,601.
Sure, you say, but that was in Venezuela where the Bolivar or Doubloon or whatever monetary unit they use is worth about 3¢. Just wait ‘til it gets to the United States. It’ll surely be box office gold here.
Wrong.
WWTD has the background on this muy grande box office bomb:
“South of the Border’s” $111,000-plus haul over three weeks of release seems beneath a director of Stone’s reputation.
The film can only be seen in seven theaters at the moment, and that’s despite heavy media play for the once great director. Perhaps theater owners know audiences will have little appetite for the film, which even liberal minded movie critics have labeled second-rate propaganda
$111,000 won’t pay for the cost of cocaine and champagne at the premiere party.
Consider it another sign that (a) Americans are rejecting leftist philosophy and (b) Oliver Stone is a moron.
Source: WWTW
