“Rob Peace,” directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor is #3. Though released to little attention theatrically in August ...

Expensive comic book movies, starry comedies, Christmas fare, Westerns and auteur-driven sci-fi epics all spectacularly imploded. Major titles played to a couple of dudes who snuck in at 11 a.m.

The three-hour epic earned just $38m (£30m) at the global box office, scuppering plans for chapter ... auteurs have ...