Tom Cruise’s is ending a majority of its IMAX run after just a week, with set to replace it.
Satirical black comedy was co-written and directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu – who is behind Oscar-winning films and – and follows oil tycoon Digger Rockwell (Cruise) as he tries to save the lives of thousands from an environmental disaster that he’s behind.
The film cost an estimated $160million to produce but on its opening weekend, it took just $20million which puts it on course to become one of the biggest flops in Hollywood history. The numbers haven’t gotten any better and it now looks like ’s IMAX run is set to come to an abrupt end after just one week.
From Friday (October 9), a handful of UK IMAX cinemas will show once a day but a majority will be focused exclusively on the return of Christopher Nolan’s .
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’s first IMAX run was so popular that tickets were being resold for hundreds on eBay.
In August, the historical epic became Nolan’s most successful film after it took $1.104billion (£819million) globally after nearly one month in cinemas, beating The Dark Knight Rises’ $1.085billion (£805.7million) box office. Earlier this month it was reported that has now taken more than $1.7billion.
The film has received huge acclaim from critics, with saying in a five-star review that it’s “hard to see how cinema can get much bigger than this”.
However, one person who was less of a fan was classics professor Emily Wilson, whose notable 2017 translation of Homer’s poem was an influence on the film. In a scathing write-up for the , she argued that Nolan’s adaptation lacked “psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth” and failed to capture the complexity of the original author’s ideas.
Meanwhile, Cruise has defended ’s poor box office numbers. “When I am making [movies], I’m not going, ‘Opening weekend!’ I feel very much like we’re going to make something that is a lasting piece of cinema,” he said during an appearance on the On Film With Kevin McCarthy podcast.
He went on to say that after so much success across his career, he asks himself “how can I make a film that can translate and last and evolve? And I feel that is . It’s one of those movies.”