The Hollywood Reporter has a story this morning about Tinseltown's new yen for all things Recession-themed. I'm going to venture out on a limb here and predict that these pictures won't exactly pack 'em into theaters. Instead, studios will be looking at the same paltry box office that greeted the great Iraq War craze of 2007, when "Rendition," "In the Valley of Elah," and "Redacted" all opened, bombed, and closed within weeks of one another. Cumulative domestic box office for those turkeys? $17.2 million.
I can't say I blame the movie-going public. I'm not eager to see "My Subprime Mortgage & Me" with Jennifer Aniston or "Not Another Wave of Layoffs" with Seann William Scott.
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