Danny Boyle‘s “Steve Jobs” will have to find success in the early critics awards if it is to rebound at the box office after it belly-flopped in its wide expansion, industry analysts told TheWrap Monday. The biopic starring Michael Fassbender as the late Apple Inc. co-founder grossed just $7.2 million on its first weekend in wide release, about half of what Universal Pictures and analysts projected going into a weekend in which four other movies opening wide all tanked. “Steve Jobs” is not a financial disaster for Universal. The production budget was a relativity modest $30 million,...
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