Lindsay Lohan 'The Canyons' Box Office Numbers Flop [TRAILER]
Lindsay Lohan's latest film The Canyons premiered over the weekend to underwhelming ticket sales.
The movie debuted at New York City's IFC Center on Aug. 2 and earned an estimated $15,200. The film, which cost less than $1 million to produce, is currently No. 4 on iTunes' top indie movies chart. The video on demand (VOD) streaming numbers have yet to be released. Explaining perhaps a reason for the flop in sales, executives said the theater isn't the outlet in which the movie will make most of its money.
"[W]e believe that the film will do most of its business in the digital realm," Sundance Selects/IFC Films president Jonathan Sehring told the Los Angeles Times.
Though the majority of critics bashed the movie in their reviews, some hailed Lohan's performance in the film.
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"The major exception is Lohan, who gives one of those performances, like Marlon Brando's in Last Tango in Paris, that comes across as some uncanny conflagration of drama and autobiography," Variety wrote in its July review. "Lohan may not go as deep or as far as Brando, but with her puffy skin, gaudy hoop earrings and thick eye makeup, there's a little-girl-lost quality to the one-time Disney teen princess that's very affecting. Whenever she's onscreen, she projects a sense of just barely holding on to that precarious slide area in the shadow of the Hollywood sign."
In the indie film, Lohan stars alongside adult film actor James Deen and Nolan Gerard Funk, who played in the TV shows Awkward and Glee respectively. Set in present day Los Angeles, the movie is directed by Paul Schrader, the writer of 1976's Taxi Driver. It's also written by Bret Easton Ellis, the man behind the novels American Psycho and Less Than Zero. The film focuses on aspiring actress Tara (Lohan), documenting her reckless life with movie producer and boyfriend Christian (Deen).
