The Producers will earn a projected $159,000 at six theatres this weekend, or $26,000 a print. Trackers are saying this is D.O.A. business…finito. A guy keeping tabs on the numbers at New York’s Ziegfeld theatre told a friend he knew The Producers was dead after Friday’s first matinee. Too many bad reviews, too cornball, no under-25 attendance to speak of and Susan Stroman can’t direct with any pizazz or sense of style…down for the count and off to DVD.
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