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  • Cine.Clint Eastwood attacks the press in 'Richard Jewell' ... and the press returns it

Richard Jewell, the most recent Clint Eastwood movie, has begun its journey in cinemas with a very poor audience response . This time, the controversy that usually accompanies some of its titles and that has also splashed into this new proposal has not served to raise revenue. In total, 4.6 million dollars of the 2,502 rooms in which it was projected in the United States. Batacazo in sight.

The result in the first weekend on the billboard is the second worst of the entire career of the actor and director of 89 years. Only Billy Bronco, an 1980 film, recorded numbers below those of Richard Jewell with $ 4.3 million. A black panorama is coming for this bet that has cost 45 million dollars in total and has been supported by the producer of Leonardo DiCaprio, Appian Way, Warner Brothers and Eastwood's own producer, Malposo Productions.

Richard Jewell is the story of the security guard who alerted police to the bomb package that ended up exploding during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and claimed the life of a woman. His action helped prevent a massacre, although he was later accused of being the man behind the attack, an ordeal that damaged his reputation.

It is a portrait of an American hero, one of the specialties of the Californian director, although this time the connection with his legion of followers in the US has been scarce. It also came from a good reception at the AFI festival in Los Angeles and made noise after being labeled as a macho and loaded with prejudices. All around the character played by Olivia Wilde in the film, Kathy Scruggs, the journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitutional who uncovered the exclusive that the FBI was investigating Jewell as suspected of being the author of the attack.

In the film, Eastwood suggests that Scruggs slept with an FBI agent to get information about the case, a storyline he chose in the newspaper and that caused a letter from the newspaper demanding a statement from Warner Brothers acknowledging the "artistic licenses" that have been taken in the film.

It also unleashed Wilde's reaction. "Contrary to what a handful of recent headlines say, I don't think Kathy has traded sex for clues. Nothing in my research suggested I do it, and it was never my intention to suggest that she did it. That would be an atrocious and misogynistic rejection of work. difficult that he did, "he wrote on his Twitter account.

However, none of that stir has served to make the tape raise more dollars. If there is no radical change in the coming weeks - traditionally the first weekend is the most fertile in terms of income - the notable streak of recent years for Eastwood will be broken, starting with The Sniper, which swept and broke box office records In January 2015, and continuing with Sully (2016), the story of the pilot who managed to land a commercial US Airways plane on the Hudson River after losing the two engines shortly after taking off.

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