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Alex Gibney's 'Musk' documentary pulled from most theaters after one week
Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour documentary about Elon Musk, which expanded to 472 US theaters a week after its Oct. 9 debut, has been dropped by almost all of them, entertainment news site Showbiz411 reported. No reason has been given.
Musk, Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk, has been pulled from almost all of the 472 US theaters where it was playing, only about a week after its nationwide expansion, the entertainment news site Showbiz411 reported on Friday.
Distributor Bleecker Street opened the film in New York and Los Angeles on Oct. 9 and widened it to 472 theaters on Oct. 16. According to the report, it is now playing in only a handful of locations, including the Angelika Film Center in New York's SoHo neighborhood, which holds a single morning screening a day. Some moviegoers complained that their tickets were canceled without warning, the report said.
No reason has been given for the move, which is unusual for a film that went wide only a week earlier. Theatrical runs typically last around four weeks.
Bleecker Street itself changed hands this month. On Oct. 15, Outerlight Entertainment, formerly First Look Entertainment, announced that it had acquired the independent distributor. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the companies said Bleecker would keep control of its slate and distribution.
The 235-minute film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September and has drawn strong reviews, with a 97% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, but it has struggled commercially, grossing about $572,000 so far. Musk has called it "a hit piece that misses," and one of his lawyers threatened to sue Gibney for defamation over a claim in the film, NPR reported. HBO holds the film's North American television and streaming rights.
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