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If both events fell into place as expected, Murphy had a good shot at returning to the top of the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, things did not work out as planned.  &#8220;Heist&#8221; greatly fell short of initial box office expectations (though still performed decently for a comedy) and his Oscar hosting gig was derailed when producer (and &#8220;Heist&#8221; director) Brett Ratner had to withdraw from the production role.<\/p>\n<p>And now he has yet another box office bomb to add to a resume that includes such disasters as &#8220;The Adventures of Pluto Nash,&#8221; &#8220;I Spy&#8221; and &#8220;Meet Dave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His new release &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221; earned less than $2 million Friday and is on track for a horrific opening weekend of less than $6 million.  Though viewers were slightly kinder to the film than critics (a B- CinemaScore versus a 0 on RT), when push came to shove, there was nowhere near enough interest to produce a box office success.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Disney&#8217;s big budget &#8220;John Carter&#8221; did not do anything to turn &#8220;Friday Night Lights&#8221; standout Taylor Kitsch into a box office rockstar.  The film garnered just $9.6 million in its Friday debut, which will produce a sub-$30 million weekend debut and a second place finish to holdover &#8220;The Lorax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though viewers hated &#8220;Silent House,&#8221; giving it an F CinemaScore, it will still earn between $6 million and $7 million for the weekend, likely good for a fifth place finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eddie Murphy Bombs Again at Box Office, &quot;John Carter&quot; Also Disappoints<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Midway through 2011, it appeared Eddie Murphy was on track for a major career resurgence. 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