It turns out not many Americans want to watch two female New York Times reporters take down Harvey Weinstein.
“She Said,” the movie about the NYT investigation into Weinstein’s sex scandals, made $150,000 last night in previews. The film is opening in 2000+ theaters. Yikes. That figure sets up a predicted $2-2.5 million opening weekend. The film was made on a $32 million budget. Just to put things in perspective, “Spotlight” cost $20 million.
Fact of the matter is that, outside of a small group of media people, there is no audience for this type of movie right now. I gave it a positive review last night, it’s a well-made yarn in the old-school tradition of “All the President’s Men” and “Spotlight,” but it leaves out a lot of crucial details.
Critics seem to like “She Said,” it has an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes and 73 on Metacritic. It would have probably been better suited as a Netflix streaming release rather than a full-scaled theatrical run.