It started as kind of a throw-away tweet from our friend Chase Whale:
GENTLEMEN BRONCOS is no longer opening in Dallas. Good thing we saw it at Fantastic Fest!
Then Roger Ebert got into the loop:
“Gentlemen Broncos” openings have been canceled in Chicago, and will go no wider than it is now
Evidently, it is official that Jared Hess’ new comedy, GENTLEMEN BRONCOS has reached the pique of its theatrical release-dom. So far, the $10-million comedy has made just over $12,000 since it’s October 30th roll-out on two screens. That’s right, if Jared Hess is raking in every, last cent his newest movie makes, he would have enough to buy a used Ford Focus. Good for him.
Fox Searchlight, who is in charge of the film’s distribution, hasn’t released anything official, but it seems fairly obvious that the lack of interest in the theaters it is playing at and the poor abysmal word of mouth the film generated after its screening at Fantastic Fest are at play. The film currently has a 12% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but that can’t really be factoring into the film’s poor box office percentages.
The debate on whether the film has any merit at all continues on Twitter, courtesy mostly of Chase and Moises Chiullan. However, the funniest tweet thus far has come from our good buddy, Neil Miller from Film School Rejects, who had this to say:
The ‘Gentlemen Broncos is cancelled’ twitter-fire is hilarious. They should’ve cancelled it much earlier though, i.e. in pre-production..
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It is, indeed, that bad.
