Troubled '47 Ronin' may be headed for a box office reckoning

In "47 Ronin," Keanu Reeves portrays the leader of a band of ronin — lordless samurai in 18th-century Japan UN agency should suffer the insult of getting nobody to steer them in battle. seems that storyline provides AN apt trope for the amount three-D sci-fi epic's problem-plagued odyssey to the screen. "47 Ronin" arrived in theaters fete day united of the foremost troubled motion-picture show productions in recent memory, similarly united of 2013's most spectacular flops-in-the-making.

According to pre-release awareness surveys, the revenge heroic tale, that price a minimum of $175 million to supply, is not off course to earn around $20 million in its gap 5 days. Such a weak box-office haul would place "47 Ronin" within the high tier of big-budget Hollywood failures, ranking aboard "John Carter," "R.I.P.D." and "The Lone Ranger" within the "when tentpole films go dreadfully wrong" class. More information