Anthony Mackie's $150 Million, Saudi-Funded Action Movie Desert Warrior Looks Like One of the Biggest Box Office Flops in History

Anthony Mackie's $150 Million, Saudi-Funded Action Movie Desert Warrior Looks Like One of the Biggest Box Office Flops in History

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Saudi-backed epic flops at box office in the US

, a Saudi-backed movie that reportedly cost about $150 million to make, only brought in $472,000 in its opening weekend. The film, starring Anthony Mackie and Ben Kingsley, took six years to produce, and its budget more than doubled in that time, according to Enterprise News. Audiences shunning the movie — which was released across more than 1,000 theaters in the US — is a reminder that art is tricky, even as the kingdom pours billions into buil…

Saudi-backed $150 million blockbuster becomes all-time flop

It made less than $500,000. The post Saudi Arabian-backed $150 million blockbuster, ‘Desert Warrior’, majorly flops at box office first appeared on Far Out Magazine.