'Anonymous' conundrum

'Anonymous' questions whether Shakespeare written his plays. Roland Emmerich's Shakespearean era literary mystery "Anonymous" wasn't prone to approach the B.O. success in the helmer's finish-of-the-world blockbusters like "Independence Day" or "The Following Day Of Tomorrow," nevertheless the high-minded tale is an especially tricky cost The brand new the new sony.Starring Rhys Ifans, David Thewlis and Vanessa Redgrave, the pic furthers a thought process that questions whether Shakespeare written his body at work. The film allures an intellectual crowd -- a number of them might be fans in the Bard.Your dog work with Emmerich, "Anonymous" became a member of its second frame (November. 4-6) grossing a reserved $1.2 million for just about any domestic cume approaching $3 million through November. 8.The brand new the new sony made a decision to reduce the film's release just a week before its Stateside debut due to soft monitoring, beginning "Anonymous" at 265 locations. However, many B.O. bloggers the pic's eventual rollout used to be too wide. The studio extended the film within the soph sesh to 514 venues, with various promising opening per-screen average of $3,856. Average for your second act was $2,399 per screen.The brand new the new sony is scaling back the film's domestic count to 482 a couple of days ago, essentially sealing the pic's U.S. fate.In Blighty, too, "Anonymous" has encounter the conundrum to become a smart alternative history in the nation of Shakespeare fans. The pic made $71,643 within the second frame there, lower a steep 73% for just about any cume of just above $500,000.Might be the comfort silence? Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com