Robert Pattinson Suffers Another Major Flop

Is Robert Pattinson deliberately trying to sabotage his post-Twilight career? One could certainly be forgiven for thinking so.

Time was he was the leading young actor in his field, with an A-list salary and legions of fans across the globe.

Yet this weekend saw another major flop for the Brit star, following his completion of the blockbusting vampire movie series which made billions worldwide.

The distributors of Australian post-apocalyptic crime drama ‘The Rover’, directed by David Michod in which Pattinson stars with Guy Pearce, released the movie quietly on five screens in the US on its opening weekend.

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But after ramping up dramatically to 599 screens across the US for its second weekend, it’s suffered a pretty damning defeat.

Making just $500,000 (£293,000) – so equivalent to £490 per cinema – the figures pale into insignificance when compared to his previous second week openings.

“David Michod made an excellent film that received very strong reviews for its unique filmmaking and wonderful performances from Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson,” said the movie’s distributor A24.

“Unfortunately we were unable to find a broader audience this weekend, but have no doubt that the film will gain fans as we continue to push it out in the weeks and months ahead.”

Though a small budget movie (it cost $12 million to make), the prognosis doesn’t look especially good, and particularly because history appears to be repeating itself.

‘Bel Ami’, the first Pattinson-starring movie to come out following the ‘Twilight’ franchise, failed at the box office, bringing in just $8 million from its $12 million budget.

Next up was ‘Cosmopolis’, the indie drama directed by revered auteur David Cronenberg.

It fared quite considerably worse – making back just $6 million at the box office from its $20.5 million budget.

Future projects too don’t seem to be pushing Pattinson any further towards Hollywood leading man status either.

Another project made with Cronenberg, ‘Maps To The Stars’, is due out later this year, followed by Werner Herzog’s ‘Queen of the Desert’, a biopic of writer and explorer Gertrude Bell.

Asked recently by the Daily Beast whether he was trying purposely to distance himself from his role of Edward Cullen in the ‘Twilight’ movies, he said: “I’ve always thought that nothing comes for free. You get paid a bunch of money. You get a bunch of opportunities. And you’ve got to pay for it somehow.

“And in my case, I paid for it by having to figure out how to walk down the street [without getting mobbed]. I paid for it by people thinking I was one thing.

“That’s my major desire as an actor - to have no one know who I am.”

On this current run of form, he might have to be careful what he wishes for.

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