On Friday, Elon Musk unveiled something no one believed was possible outside of a Hollywood movie: an actual flying car — the Roadster. Yes, a car that flies, y’all. It actually flies. Oh, and it also goes from zero to 60 miles per hour in under a second. And then there’s the Roadster’s true miracle of miracles: a cup holder engineered to hold a Big Gulp.
\n\nI might have made up that last one.
\n\nWhile Elon Musk runs around building electric cars and electric semi-trucks that drive themselves, while he’s firing off rocketship after rocketship and catching them when they land, while he’s out launching satellites, saving stranded astronauts, and offering affordable and reliable internet … a four-hour hit-piece disguised as a documentary found itself humiliated at the box office.
\n\nAlex Gibney’s Musk earned a paltry $307,000 despite debuting on 468 screens after opening last weekend on four screens. That’s a per-screen average of $649.
\n\nBy comparison, the Melania Trump documentary, Melania, opened on a whopping 1,778 screens and still earned $4,027 per screen.
\n\nThe comparison to a guy who flew a car and the guy who directed a four-hour flop flinging poo at the guy who flew a car…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/
