John Travolta’s latest film The Fanatic has the worst opening of the actor’s career. Travolta burst on the scene as a movie star in the 1970s thanks to the classics Saturday Night Fever and Grease, later maturing into a solidly consistent box office performer in films like Look Who’s Talking, Face/Off and Phenomenon. Along the way, Travolta experienced his share of career slumps, and also enjoyed a few comebacks, the most notable happening in 1994 when Quentin Tarantino gave him the role of Vincent Vega in his influential classic Pulp Fiction.
Lately however, Travolta’s career trend has been heading precipitously downward, with no sign of a renaissance in sight. His last genuine hits came in 2007 when both Wild Hogs and Hairspray topped the $100 million mark, and his last blip as any kind of significant box office presence came in 2012 when he played a supporting role in Oliver Stone’s thriller Savages. Since then, Travolta has been relegated to starring in low-rent B-movies and VOD titles, his last theatrical release coming with 2018’s Gotti, a critical and commercial bomb that grossed just $4.3 million in a limited number of theaters.
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Now, Travolta has experienced another dispiriting career low, as his newest film has proven to be the biggest bomb of all. Released on August 30th with little fanfare, Travolta’s The Fanatic took in just $3,153 on Friday, and will likely end the four-day Labor Day weekend with less than $15,000 on 52 screens (via MSN). That performance is even worse than Travolta’s 2016 flop In a Valley of Violence, which managed $29,343 on 33 screens in its opening weekend, and his 2013 bomb Killing Season, which took in $27,713 when it opened on 12 screens.