You’d think Oscar buzz and a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes would mean something, not to mention a cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley, but forget about it. Nobody wants to watch a stagey movie centered on women, from an isolated religious community, coming to terms with being raped. … or you can just do what most pundits have done this morning and lay the blame on bad weather. Yeah, let’s just blame it on bad weather. However, barely anybody is blaming Babylon’s atrocious $3.4 million weekend on bad weather, somehow “Women Talking” had its numbers severely affected by snow, but not “Babylon”. I don’t know what to tell you folks. It just seems as though every Oscar contender this fall has failed miserably at the box-office. Even “The Whale” is now looking at a terrible overall gross — it made $900k this weekend, despite playing in close to 700 theaters. IFC’s “Corsage” actually did better than expected in limited release, it topped Women Talking’s PSA average. The three-day estimate for the Cannes-heralded biopic of Empress Elisabeth of Austria – known as Sisi — was $36k, a PSA of $18k. Contribute Hire me
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