We all heard of a box office flop but this is ridiculous! Shia LaBeouf's movie titled Man Down opened in theaters in the U.K. over the weekend and literally no one saw, well except one person.
ComScore reported that the actor's film grossed just £7 ($8.70) at the U.K. box office this weekend with the sale of one single ticket.
“Poor Shia,” ComScore’s Paul Dergarabedian told Variety. “That opening could be in the Guinness World Records or something.”
The film, which also stars Gary Oldman, Jai Courtney and Kate Mara, played at the Reel Cinema in Burnley and was also released simultaneously digitally and on-demand.
Man Down is about a U.S. Marine, played by LaBeouf, returning home from Afghanistan and suffering from PTSD. However, with it's low gross the movie is garnering much more attention across the pond for that than anything else. Apparently all press is good press though because The Hollywood Reporter had learned from the manager at Reel Cinema that Man Down has raked in a little more dough as she has now sold two more tickets; bringing the total gross for the movie to just over $26.
"I think we've sold three tickets in total," she revealed, adding that she never "experienced anything like it before."
Of course those numbers aren't enough to keep the film playing in the theater and so if ticket sales do not improve significantly Man Down will be pulled from Reel Cinema on Thursday, April 6.
The movie didn't have strong numbers at the box office in U.S. when it was released in December either, but the $454,490 it grossed here seems astronomical compared to $26.10 it earned in England.