Hollywood “Ambassador” Mel Gibson is hiding on his movie’s poster.
The advertising for “Flight Risk” — which opened to $4.4 million for Thursday and Friday combined — highlights only star Mark Wahlberg’s name. (Total on Friday was $3.5 million.) Audiences are not lining up at the gate for this flight.
But there’s no stressing that this is a “Mel Gibson movie.” Gibson’s name is below in the hard to read credits. Lionsgate must have felt that the antisemitic conspiracy theorist wasn’t much of a draw.
That’s not the only misdirect for this movie. The ad shows Wahlberg looking like a movie star with the top of his head obscured.
But in the film, Wahlberg’s character is bald, with quite a receding hairline.
“Flight Risk” has a 21% rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences haven’t liked it much either, posting a lowly 63%.
PS Even this poster hides Gibson’s name, just highlights a few of his movies. And just “award winning.” No sign of “Oscar winning” for 30 year old “Braveheart.”
