Johnny Depp's 'The Rum Diary' BOMBS At The Box Office

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Moviegoers, who love Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, stayed away from his newest film The Rum Diary, in which he plays a fictionalized version of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Thompson may be just as colorful as Sparrow – the late journalist, who died in 2005, was famous for his intake of booze and drugs – but Depp’s newest movie, inspired by one of Thompson’s books, might as well have ended up in the drunk tank.

Opening this weekend in 2,272 theaters, the R-rated movie grossed just $5 million -- ranking fifth for the weekend and earning just $2,205 per location.

Rum Diary is Depp’s worst stumble at the box office since the arty fantasy movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which grossed just $7.7 million in the U.S. in 2009, although unlike Rum Diary, it never played in more than 607 theaters.