Liam Hemsworth 'Paranoia' Box Office: Bombs in the US Despite Miley Cyrus' Support [TRAILER]
Liam Hemsworth's new film plummeted at the box office following its U.S. release on Aug. 16.
The $40 million thriller earned just $3.5 million in its first three days, which yielded a $1,423 per-theater average, according to Entertainment Weekly. The numbers give the film the worst debut of 2013 for a movie opening in more than 2,000 theaters - stealing the title from Tyler Perry Presents Peeples, which opened with $4.6 million in May - but it is also the worst wide opening weekend of actor Harrison Ford's entire career, according to the report.
The film ranked in at No. 13 on the weekend box office list, according to Yahoo! Movies. The top spot went to Lee Daniels' The Butler with $25 million, followed by We're the Millers with $17.8 million.
Paranoia also stars Amber Heard, Gary Oldman, Josh Holloway and Richard Dreyfuss. Hemsworth plays the lead as a tech-savvy student that gets willingly mixed up in the business world of espionage. He plays Adam Cassidy, a Brooklyn native hired by a tycoon (Oldman) to work for a rival corporation (Ford's) and steal trade secrets that he then reports back to the former. As he gets deeper into the scheme of his deception, Adam transforms from "a bridge-and-tunnel" guy to a lavish-living, suited socialite.
Supporting Hemsworth's new film was his fiancee, We Can't Stop singer Miley Cyrus. The couple made a rare public appearance together when they attended the Los Angeles premiere of Paranoia, holding onto each other as they posed for cameras. Cyrus also tried to get her Twitter followers to see the film in the movie theaters, tweeting on the day of its release, "Go see @ParanoiaMovie the lead actor @LiamHemsworth is pretty cute."
The film is an adaptation of Joseph Finder's 2004 novel of the same name.
