Doomsday is DOA at Box Office
March 16, 2008 by brian
Universal probably guessed as much when they dumped Doomsday in the wasteland that is early March, but it had a dismal opening this weekend. The Rhona Mitra vehicle cost $19 million to make but only pulled in $4.7 million.
The post-apocalyptic thriller takes place in a Scotland overtaken by a virus, causing British authorities to quarantine the whole nation and leave its inhabitants to die. Is there any film outside of the James Bond series where the British government isn’t diabolical, villainous and generally shows no regard for human life?
Instead of dying, it seems the Scottish degenerate into pale ripoffs of …read more