Posted
12:56 PM
by Gene
We know
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS KING RICHARD does not watch so much as one movie or TV show from His empire, so He will not care that
His latest epic (according to the fake and premature numbers which PAUL DRECK calls definitive) has declined by nearly two-thirds. I'm old enough to recall when a movie was still special, when
My Fair Lady and
The Sound of Music played in reserved-seat first-run houses for a year. There was a mystique to such films, the notion that here was a classy product that could stand the test of time. The King and His fellow Kings are out to get their product in and out of theaters in one week, and that's also befitting. Perhaps they can make them come and go so fast they won't have to play in theaters at all.
By the way,
PAPER OF RECORD, it looks as though
Saved! is headed to box-office perdition.