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Jennifer Lopez’s new movie tanks at box office with minuscule earnings

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Megastar Jennifer Lopez latest film, Unstoppable, has tanked badly at the box office, raking in very low earnings its opening weekend.

The 55-year-old singer has suffered a couple of lows in her career this year with horrible ticket sales for her This Is Me… Live tour and the tanking of her new Netflix film, Atlas, which critics called a “rotten flop.”

On top of that, JLo filed for divorce from Ben Affleck over the summer and they never signed a prenuptial agreement before getting married two years ago.

Now, Unstoppable has dropped out of cinemas after just one week after pulling in a shocking $3,900 for its entire opening weekend in the UK, making it the 55th most-watched movie on its release.

Her latest album, This is Me… Now, debuted at a less than impressive No. 38 on the US Billboard 200 in February, before dropping out of the charts completely.

She was later forced to halt the accompanying tour, This Is Me… Live tour in certain cities due to low ticket sales.

This is Me… Now was accompanied by both a movie musical and an intimate behind-the-scenes documentary, but since she was unable to find funding for the project, Lopez funded the $20million project herself.

This Is Me… Now: A Love Story was released on February 16, along with the accompanying album.

Despite the bucket loads of publicity, it failed to translate into album sales, with This Is Me… Now limping onto the Billboard 200 at No. 38 before dropping off completely.

The album, which was heavily-inspired by her romance with Affleck, was accompanied by a documentary, This is Me Now… A Love Story, which was dubbed “over-the-top delight for fans” by critics.

“For all her promises to show us the real her, it’s a struggle to see it in the slick and sexy production,” The Independent wrote.

The Guardian added it “offers very little outside of simply soundtracking a cosy night in chez Bennifer” adding it was “hopelessly middle of the road.”

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However, Lopez was forced to cancel several shows across seven cities for her highly-anticipated This is Me…Now: The Tour concert due to low ticket sales.

She axed all scheduled dates between August 22 to August 30 in Nashville, New Orleans; Raleigh, Atlanta, Houston, Cleveland and Tampa.

According to Ticketmaster, the event organizer “had to cancel” the performance and no actions were “required to obtain a refund” to the original method of payment used at time of purchase.

Weeks after Lopez suddenly cancelled the dates, the entire tour itself was rebranded.

In April, it was revealed that the tour was to be re-titled from This Is Me… Now: The Tour to This Is Me… Live, focusing more on her greatest hits, per Variety.

The rebrand was expected to draw in fans of her previous work.

Now, Unstoppable has tanked at the UK box office and dropped out after just one week.

The film tells the story of wrestler Anthony Robles and the actor and singer stars as his mother Judy.

The premise of the film “centres around the life of wrestler Anthony Robles, who was born with one leg and won a national championship in 2011 while competing at Arizona State University.”

Unstoppable had a limited theatrical release beginning on December 6 and also stars Jharrel Jerome, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Pena and Don Cheadle.

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