Acclaimed filmmaker Alexander Payne and Paramount may have bet big on Downsizing, but the movie is doing miniature-like business at the year-end holiday box office. If the R-rated satirical comedy doesn’t make a miraculous recovery, it will mark the first major miss of Payne’s career, whose past films include prestige titles.

Downsizing is the third movie in a row starring Matt Damon that’s disappointed in North America after 2017 titles Suburbicon, directed by Damon’s longtime collaborator, George Clooney, and The Great Wall. Prior to that, Damon turned out box-office hits Jason Bourne (2016) and The Martian (2017).

Downsizing cost $70 million to make, and is by far the biggest budget Payne has worked with. The dramedy, which opened the 2017 Venice Film Festival, stars Damon as an ordinary Midwestern man who agrees to be shrunk to five inches tall in order to live like a king. Christoph Waltz and Kristen Wiig co-star.
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‘DOWNSIZING’ BOX OFFICE A RARE MISS FOR FILMMAKER ALEXANDER PAYNE

Acclaimed filmmaker Alexander Payne and Paramount may have bet big on Downsizing, but the movie is doing miniature-like business at the year-end holiday box office. If the R-rated satirical comedy doesn’t make a miraculous recovery, it will mark the first major miss of Payne’s career, whose past films include prestige titles.

Downsizing is the third movie in a row starring Matt Damon that’s disappointed in North America after 2017 titles Suburbicon, directed by Damon’s longtime collaborator, George Clooney, and The Great Wall. Prior to that, Damon turned out box-office hits Jason Bourne (2016) and The Martian (2017).

Downsizing cost $70 million to make, and is by far the biggest budget Payne has worked with. The dramedy, which opened the 2017 Venice Film Festival, stars Damon as an ordinary Midwestern man who agrees to be shrunk to five inches tall in order to live like a king. Christoph Waltz and Kristen Wiig co-star.

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