Wednesday, 01 November 2023 22:00

David Fincher's True Crime Masterpiece Was A Box Office Disaster

Written by Joshua Kristian McCoy
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Everyone knows and loves Zodiac 16 years after its release, but its initial reception from audiences was less impressive.

Modern audiences have two easily accessible numbers from which to measure the success of a feature film. The Rotten Tomatoes score details how much people like a film, while the box office take reveals how many saw it. Neither metric is perfect. Relying on these two numbers will result in missing countless brilliant films. David Fincher's Zodiac was an instant neo-noir classic that critics loved, and audience members needed time to warm up to.

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