Mad Money is now officially one of the more ironically-titled movies ever... cause it didn't exactly make mad money this weekend at the box-office. In fact it got destroyed, coming in seventh with a pitiful $7.7 million. It even got beat by Juno which has been out for 7 weeks. The number 1 movie was Cloverfield with $41 million. People would rather watch a monster destroy New York than Katie Holmes, Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah rob a bank. Can you blame them?
The hilarious thing is that, in people's eyes, Mad Money's failure is really all about Tom Cruise - that's how connected Katie is to Cruise. Rightly or wrongly, we perceive Cruise as being in control of Katie's career, so for her to take a part like this and have the movie flop...it's Tom's bad managing that will be blamed, not Katie's inherent blandness as an actress, nor the apparent ill-conceived nature of the whole venture (it looked like a silly girl-power knock-off of The Lavender Hill Mob to me). Tom would do well to encourage his bride in a direction away from movies entirely, lest he suffer a string of ever-more-horrific embarrassments. Trust me, no one would miss her.
