George Clooney is shocked - SHOCKED! - and hurt by the failure of 'Leatherheads'. The football movie - which was ridiculously released at the start of baseball season - grossed only $36 million which is $22 million short of its $58 million budget.
Clooney tells Rolling Stone, "It bombed and when I say bombed - it bombed. Someone said, 'How does that feel?' and it stings a little bit."
"It's not like we just showed up: I was working on this for a couple years and put a lot of work into it, and you get knocked back a little bit."
But he refuses to be beaten, insisting, "The trick is how you handle things when things don't go great. It's easy when things are doing well: The people I most admire are the people who handle it when the studio says that's really underperformed and they say, 'Ow, that hurt.' I've been a fan of watching people go through cycles, not just winning cycles."
