{"id":315,"date":"2015-06-08T17:55:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:24:55","slug":"fifa-movie-makes-only-600-at-its-weekend-release-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/fifa-movie-makes-only-600-at-its-weekend-release-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Movie Makes Only $607 At Its Weekend Release In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A movie about FIFA made only $607 (\u00a3394) at its opening weekend in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, <em>United Passions<\/em>, details the origins of FIFA and the three association presidents who first led the football governing body. The film was written and directed by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Auburtin and stars Tom Roth, G\u00e9rard Depardieu, Sam Neill and Fischer Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA film was already at a loss of about $26.8 million having only taken in around $200,000 across the European box office since its release at the Zurich film festival in October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>At its opening in the US, the film managed to do even worse \u2013 making only $607 in total from 10 different cinemas across the country showing it.\u00a0One of the cinemas in Arizona reported to have only sold one ticket for the movie all weekend,\u00a0making a total of $9.<\/p>\n<p>The film was budgeted\u00a0between $25-32 million and three quarters of the money raised for <em>United Passions<\/em>\u00a0was\u00a0funded by FIFA themselves.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the trailer here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JCjeD-Jqd2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie about FIFA made only $607 (\u00a3394) at its opening weekend in the US. The movie, United Passions, details the origins of FIFA and the three association presidents who first led the football governing body. The film was written and directed by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Auburtin and stars Tom Roth, G\u00e9rard Depardieu, Sam Neill and Fischer Stevens. The FIFA film was already at a loss of about $26.8 million having only taken in around $200,000 across the European box office since its release at the Zurich film festival in October 2014. At its opening in the US, the film managed to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}