The Fith Estate, the highly anticipated film with Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is not very well received in the U.S. On the contrary, the production had the weakest debut of the year, informs Hollywood Reporter. Moreover, after critics have shown no enthusiasm and people were missing from theaters, it looks like The Fifth Estate is attacked even by WikiLeaks. After last week, when Assange's letter to Cumberbatch went public, in which he criticized the film, comes another problem for The Fifth Estate. Famous WikiLeaks site offers the opportunity to download for free his own documentary about the 2011 distribution of classified government documents, called Mediastan. Mediastan was first released last week in Europe. WikiLeaks offers it for free in the U.S. and Canada for 11 hours, after which users will have to pay 3 dollars. Last weekend were downloaded 500,000 copies of documentary Mediastan in the same time when The Fifth Estate had its premiere in the UK.
According to some polls, it seems that Americans are not interested in seeing a movie about Julian Assange or WikiLeaks. Assange himself publicly criticized the film director Bill Condon, saying that he offers a false and manipulative vision of the actual events.
The Fifth Estate was launched in the U.S. this weekend, but managed to raise only 1.7 million dollars in 1,500 theaters, thus having the worst debut in the box office this year. In the movie, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Julian Assange when he was preparing to provide confidential information to the press about U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The film is based on the book "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website" by Domscheit-Berg and "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy" written by David Leigh and Luke Harding.
According to some polls, it seems that Americans are not interested in seeing a movie about Julian Assange or WikiLeaks. Assange himself publicly criticized the film director Bill Condon, saying that he offers a false and manipulative vision of the actual events.
The Fifth Estate was launched in the U.S. this weekend, but managed to raise only 1.7 million dollars in 1,500 theaters, thus having the worst debut in the box office this year. In the movie, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Julian Assange when he was preparing to provide confidential information to the press about U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The film is based on the book "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website" by Domscheit-Berg and "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy" written by David Leigh and Luke Harding.