Another flop for Alden

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/17914881-warren-beatty-s-comeback-film-sucks

It's bombed spectacularly. Per Deadline:

Warren Beatty’s directorial return Rules Don’t Apply is falling outside the top 10, likely in 11th place with an atrocious $310K at 2,382 theaters (that’s $130 a theater, ouch!) and a projected Wed.-Sun. run of $2.35M. An avid moviegoer told me yesterday that he visited the Hollywood Arclight last night and asked the clerk behind the counter what wasn’t selling. The first title out of his mouth? “Rules Don’t Apply“. Critics and audiences weren’t warm to Rules respectively with a 59% Rotten Tomatoes Score and B- CinemaScore. Beatty’s fans showed up with 54% of the audience over 50, 67% female with 32% citing Beatty as why they decided to go. What’s sad is that this Howard Hughes movie was a huge passion project of Beatty’s for more than two decades. The Oscar-winning director of Reds has been relentlessly doing screening Q&As around town to drum up the pic’s profile during awards season, and even had Rules Don’t Apply open AFI Fest. What’s not working here is that it’s a movie that’s out of its time. First anything that’s about Hollywood, that’s set in Hollywood rarely plays well outside of L.A.. Furthermore, Rules has an episodic rhythm, and for a semi-biopic about Hughes, it’s a comedy that largely focuses on its younger, beautiful protagonists played by Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich (in a short time, his profile will skyrocket further thanks to his lock on the title role in Disney/Lucasfilm’s Han Solo movie). Rules cost an estimated $25M before P&A; it’s a distribution de

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reply 39 Yesterday at 5:10 AM

This is primarily Warren Beatty's flop. And when you have a potentially star-making role like young Han Solo coming up this flop doesn't matter at all. Now Lily Collins is a different story, she has no big roles to save her and this is yet another flop to her name. She needs to score a good role in a guaranteed hit movie.

One thing watching this movie taught me is that Alden Ehrenreich was definitely a good choice for a young Han Solo. Just the way his facial features and his expressions work.

As for this being a flop it's irrelevant. We have exited the era of the superstar actor and are in the era of the powerhouse franchise.