Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs biopic bombs in both reviews and box office
While there are lots of fans of Apple's products who routinely stand or sit in lines outside of stores waiting to get the next iPhone or iPad, there were no such lines in front of US movie theaters this weekend to watch the heavily hyped biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The movie, titled simply Jobs, is estimated to have grossed just $6.7 million from 2,381 screens, placing it in a dismal seventh place on the box office charts.
The Hollywood Reporter states that the movie, which stars Ashton Kutcher in the title role, received just a "B-" score from Cinemascore, which polls select audiences as they come out of movie showings on Friday. In addition, the Rotten Tomatoes site, which averages the review scores of the major and minor movie critics, says that Jobs got a score of just 25 percent.
