Wanted: Audience for Sappy Poker Movie Lucky You

Drew Barrymore and Eric Bana really cranked up the stink in Lucky You. (Courtesy Warner Bros.)

Finishing up its second weekend in theaters, the Curtis Hanson-directed poker film Lucky You has dropped from sixth place at the box office to thirteenth, pulling in a piss-poor $1.1 million in ticket sales over the three-day period, which happens to be a tad bit less than what Bodog player Leif Force earned for himself at the 2006 World Series of Poker, just to put it into perspective.

The dismally performing and critically panned movie, which stars Eric Bana as a poker player who has his sights set on the World Series of Poker and falls in love along the way, has now grossed $4.7 million in total ticket sales, just $238 million shy of what Spider-Man 3 grossed during the same time span.

On a more positive note though, Lucky You did manage to stay slightly ahead of Jamie Kennedy's instant classic (in the flop department) Kickin' it Old School. 

While Lucky You is replete with cameos by noted poker pros, it seems that the sappy romance between the characters played by Bana and Drew Barrymore has deterred poker players from going to see the movie. Conversely, the poker playing done by those noted poker pros has apparently deterred the sappy romantics from seeing the movie. 

As Leif Force proved at last year's World Series of Poker, it doesn't take a multi-million dollar movie budget and ad campaign to yank in $1.1 million in a weekend. It just takes a seat at the WSOP, which you can earn by playing in one of Bodog Poker's regular online WSOP qualifiers.