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Here we go again - another liberal Hollywood icon wants to chime in on the war in Iraq. So far the films that have blasted away at America and the Bush Administration have failed at the box office. Will the Robert Redford film Lions for Lambs also be a box office bomb? Redford has already slammed Bush in comments and has accused President George W Bush's administration of spreading fear to promote their Iraq agenda.

Robert Redford Lions for Lambs: Box Office Bomb?

Will this sell? So far audiences have turned away from heavy handed Hollywood. Both "In the Valley of Elah" and, more recently, "Rendition" drew minuscule crowds upon their release lectures.


The Washington Times reports that "Rendition," which features three Oscar winners in key roles, grossed $4.1 million over the weekend in 2,250 screens for a ninth-place finish. A re-release of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" beat it, and it's 14 years old. "Elah" boasts Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon, another Oscar-winning triumvirate, under professionally red-hot director Paul Haggis, who won his own Oscar for "Crash." Mr. Haggis' drama focuses on the disappearance of an Iraq war veteran upon his return home.

Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise star in the film that "digs behind the news, the politics and a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war"