"W" a Guaranteed Loser

The movie "W", Oliver Stone's latest political cartoon, is now pretty much guaranteed to be a financial failure according to Deadline Hollywood:

There's been tremendous interest by the public in the box office fate of Oliver Stone's W. for its second weekend in release. Well, it ran out of steam. QED International/Lionsgate's Bush biopic sank 58% to No. 8 with $1.5 million Friday from 2,050 dates for what will probably be a $5.2M weekend. The $30M negative cost film should end up with $23M domestic box office gross by the end of its North American run. That means, with a $25M P&A investment and Lionsgate's distribution fees, the film won't recoup.

It will probably make more money in overseas distribution, but frankly, interest in the Bush Administration and the characters therein has pretty much dissipated. This movie was designed to appeal to a limited crowd of anti-Bush deadenders, and that's who went to see it.