{"id":166161,"date":"2013-12-30T01:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T01:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2013\/12\/30\/keanus-new-movie-an-epic-failure\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T01:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T01:24:25","slug":"keanus-new-movie-an-epic-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/30\/keanus-new-movie-an-epic-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanu\u2019s new movie an epic failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/AODYQVHMUJYESHXRNWJR.jpg><\/p>\n<div>Keanu Reeves\u2019 new Samurai epic is failing to cut through at the box office, with Universal Pictures likely to book a massive $US175 million ($197 million) loss on \u201c47 Ronin\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>Based on a poor showing so far at the Christmas box office and an equally troubling start in Japan earlier this month, Universal may only recoup its marketing costs, leaving Ronin\u2019s pricey $US175 million budget exposed, according to Hollywood Reporter.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The film, which opened in the US on Christmas Day, grossed $US10.7 million in its first two days in America, falling to eigth place at the US box office by Thursday.<\/div>\n<div>Ronin\u2019s financial woes are nothing new:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Universal was forced to write down the cost of the film, which required extensive reshoots and had its release date pushed back twice, over the course of last year.<\/div>\n<div>The movie is now on track to be the year\u2019s second-biggest miss financially after The Lone Ranger, on which Disney lost at least $190 million.<\/div>\n<div>Ronin 47 opens in Australia on January 14.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keanu Reeves\u2019 new Samurai epic is failing to cut through at the box office, with Universal Pictures likely to book a massive $US175 million ($197 million) loss on \u201c47 Ronin\u201d. Based on a poor showing so far at the Christmas box office and an equally troubling start in Japan earlier this month, Universal may only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}