The Christian Slater horror film Playback gathered an astonishing $264.00 – yes, that's two hundred and sixty four – in theaters. Well, theater, to be exact; it only showed for one week in a single cinema. The figure gives Playback the honor as 2012's lowest grossing film of the year. It earned $252.00 on opening night and just 12 dollars more during the following week, after which it was pulled. It has since made its way to VOD via Netflix and Amazon Prime.

That has got to hurt, but when your career includes Gleaming the Cube and Hard Rain, at least you're probably prepared for the emotional toll. Still, it makes me wince, even 20 years later, every time I'm reminded that I once actually liked Christian Slater movies. At least Heathers and True Romance still hold up*!

As 2012 comes to a depressingly apocalypse-free conclusion, it's not surprising that we're seeing the last, painful lists of ignobility slipping out at the last minute. What better way to prepare ourselves for the new year than by embracing obstacles head on.

If yesterday's news of the most pirated movies proves that a bumper crop (cash-wise) for Hollywood doesn't mean there still isn't a problem with pilfered films, today's offers unexpected confirmation that F. Scott Fitzgerald might have been right about there not being any second acts in American lives. At least for formerly successful actors.

So at least we can all take comfort that our English teachers may have been onto something after all.

I guess this finishes Slater.

I didn't know Christian did a recent movie that came to the theatre. He's been doing straight to video movies for awhile. I'm sure he doesn't care that his movies aren't making a lot of money because he's getting paid. Plus he's still acting which shows he cares more about his career than money and that's a good thing. I've seen a few of his straight to video movies and i didn't like them except i did like Sacrifice with Cuba Gooding Jr and El Gringo with Scott Adkins. He did another movie with Cuba Gooding Jr i saw called Lies and Illusions. I was disappointed in that because the previews makes it look like there's a lot of action. There's a cute white girl in it that dates Christian that i liked. Christian is gonna be in Sylvester Stallone's new movie Bullet To The Head next month and i wanna see it.

I guess he did and he's probably sorry he did. If nothing else ended his career this may have.

Christian Slater still makes movies? ;)

I guess he did and he's probably sorry he did. If nothing else ended his career this may have.

Very unlikely. His straight to DVD movies are making enough money to keep him going.

I agree Torgo. I don't know why people diss straight to video movies. Actors that do straight to video movies are getting paid and that's all that matters. People act like actors don't get paid for doing straight to video movies and people also act like most straight to video movies are bad. I've seen a lot of good straight to video movies.