Flop

Today a lot of the buzz in the poker news is the fact that the new poker themed film, "Deal", made only $35,281 during its opening weekend. With an average ticket price of eight dollars, this means only about 4500 people went to see this movie. To put this in perspective, such Hollywood classics as Gigli, C.H.U.D., and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes had better opening days than Deal. Considering the fact that this film opened on fifty screens, it took some real effort to underachieve and raise the sort of money that fundamentally wouldn't pay for the movie's catering bill.