Box Office Doesn't Favor Post-Sept. 11 Themes
When Redacted opens Nov. 16, it has an opportunity to be the first of this fall's war movies to do well at the box office.
At least 10 films this season resonate with post-Sept. 11 themes. None of the movies that have opened so far has done well at the box office.
They range from action-packed The Kingdom, about a crack FBI team investigating a bombing in Saudi Arabia, to the very talky Lions for Lambs, about a senator, a reporter and a professor caught up in the war in Afghanistan.
Last week's entry was Rendition (not to be confused with Brian DePalma's Redacted). Even though it had stars Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, it took in only $4 million. That's less than the vampire thriller 30 Days of Night, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married — and seven other films.
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