While there were several earlier and unsuccessful attempts to mount a film version, it wasn’t until Depp and his production company Infinitum Nihil joined forces with Graham King’s GK Films that the movie went into production, filming in Puerto Rico in 2009 with Bruce Robinson, whose 1997 film Withnail & I was a favorite of both Thompson and Depp’s, directing.įilmDistrict, co-founded by King, took on distribution of Rum Diary, but held off its release until it could find a release date when Depp was free from commitments to his most recent Pirates movie as well as filming of the upcoming Dark Shadows, so he could go on the road to promote the movie. The movie has been a passion project for Depp, who struck up a deep friendship with the author, who he portrayed in the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but like many other passion projects that Hollywood has witnessed, it bombed with audiences.īased on a novel that Thompson wrote in the early ‘60s but didn’t published until 1998, the movie follows a journalist, played by Depp, who heads to Puerto Rico in the 1950s. PHOTOS: Johnny Depp’s Most Memorable Career Moments in 2009, although unlike Rum Diary, it never played in more than 607 theaters. Rum Diary is Depp’s worst stumble at the box office since the arty fantasy movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which grossed just $7.7 million in the U.S. Last year’s The Tourist, in which he costarred with Angelina Jolie, opened to $16.5 million and went on to gross $67.7 million domestically and $278.3 million worldwide, while the animated movie Rango, in which he voiced the title character, opened to $38.1 million in North America and took in $242.6 million worldwide earlier this year. PHOTOS: Movie Report Card: 10 Biggest Flops of 2011 (So Far)Ī huge international star, Depp can claim three movies among the top-ten worldwide grossers of all time: 2006’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which ranks sixth with $1.07 billion this year’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which is eighth with $1.04 billion and Alice in Wonderland, which is ninth with $1.02 billion. Even Depp’s less successful movies have done far more business than Rum Diary.
Opening this weekend in 2,272 theaters, the R-rated movie grossed just $5 million, ranking fifth for the weekend and earning just $2,205 per location.
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