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A long-delayed film version of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, starring Amber Heard and her ex-husband Johnny Depp, has flopped at the US box office.<\/p>\n
The dystopian murder mystery made an estimated $160,000 (£125,000) over the weekend after opening in 613 cinemas.<\/p>\n
That’s the worst opening for a “wide” release since a little-known 2008 film called Proud American made just $96,000 (£75,000) in its opening weekend.<\/p>\n
London Fields has been the subject of protracted litigation since 2015.<\/p>\n
The film was to have had its premiere at that year’s Toronto Film Festival but was pulled from the schedule after its director sued its producers.<\/p>\n
Director Mathew Cullen claimed Christopher Hanley and Jordan Gertner had added “incendiary imagery” to the film without his approval.<\/p>\n
Hanley and Gertner later counter-sued Cullen, accusing him of breaching his contract.<\/p>\n
The producers also launched a legal action against Heard, claiming she “participated in a concerted campaign of disinformation” to “damage” the film.<\/p>\n
Heard launched her own counter-suit, alleging the producers violated a no-nudity clause in her contract by secretly filming sex scenes with a body double.<\/p>\n
The Aquaman actress reached a settlement with the producers last month that allowed London Fields to be released on 26 October.<\/p>\n
Based on Amis’s 1989 novel, London Fields tells of a clairvoyant named Nicola Six who divines she is to be murdered by one of her two suitors.<\/p>\n
Depp, to whom Heard was married at the time of shooting, has a cameo as a gangster in the film, which currently has a 0% rating on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n
The New York Times described the film as “a trashy, tortured misfire,” while the Los Angeles Times called it “aggressively awful”.<\/p>\n
Heard, whose divorce from Depp was finalised last year, was pictured last week next to a London taxi cab at the film’s Los Angeles premiere.<\/p>\n
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