It’s raining older men at the weekend’s domestic box office, as a troupe of Hollywood legends, including Harrison Ford, Robert Redford and the “Last Vegas” quartet, stormed theaters. The timing of these releases, while purely coincidental, saw mixed results, with Ford in “Ender’s Game” leading the pack. The Lionsgate-Summit film failed to drum up enough support from teens to meet expectations set by previously successful YA adaptations. But Ford, who starred in the recent flop “Paranoia” (not his fault), can hardly be blamed for not bringing in the crowds.
“Ender’s Game,” which is based on the 1985 Orson Scott Card novel, toplines youngsters Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld, along with another vet actor Ben Kingsley. Unlike Ford, who wasn’t the main draw for “Ender’s Game,” the foursome in CBS Films’ “Last Vegas” — Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas and Kevin Kline — are front-and-center intended to attract an adult audience. The four “Vegas” vets, all of whom are 66 or older (Freeman is the oldest at 76), star in the film about a group of friends who go to Las Vegas for one last hurrah.
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