The star studded musical ‘Nine’ recently opened, after much fanfare, to disappointing box office and dismal reviews. The Rob Marshall directed film was one of the most anticipated movies of the year and cost an estimated $64 million to produce — and the cast includes Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Judi Dench and Nicole Kidman. But it finished eighth at the North American box office in its second week last weekend with a meagre $5.5 million in ticket sales. The Hollywood Reporter points out that this is despite five Golden Globe nominations.

The film is based on an award-winning Broadway stage musical which is in turn based on Federico Fellini’s ‘8 1/2.’ It follows a filmmaker going through a midlife crisis and dealing with the women in his life.

It has ranked only 37% fresh on the tomatometer on aggregator Rottentomatoes.com. Roger Ebert says “Nine is just plain adrift in its own lack of necessity,” while USA Today’s Claudia Puig says, “Nine should have been called 4 1/2 because it doesn’t come close to the work of the master who inspired it.”

But the Hollywood Reporter says the Weinstein Company isn’t going to pull it from any theatres just yet and expects it will pick up.

“At this moment in time there has been no plan between us nor the theatre chains that we deal with to cut any theatres,” David Glasser, an operations executive for the company reportedly told Reuters on Wednesday.

“We are going to hold our theatres as planned. The movie is working.” He said the studio expected ‘Nine’ to perform well in the coming weeks.

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