[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-musk-documentary-leaves-theaters-after-two-weeks-and-571902":10,"sections":45},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":34,"tags":35,"sources":40,"feedback":44,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":44,"total_tokens":44},12342,"musk-documentary-leaves-theaters-after-two-weeks-and-571902","Musk Documentary Leaves Theaters After Two Weeks and $571,902","Alex Gibney's film on Elon Musk grossed $571,902 before leaving theaters, and the pre-release fights around it make the weak numbers harder to read.","Alex Gibney's documentary *Musk* has ended its theatrical run after two weeks, according to entertainment news site Showbiz411, and it is now streaming on Prime Video and Fandango.\n\nThe film opened October 9 in four theaters in two cities. By its second and final week it was in more than 450. Gizmodo put the total take at $571,902 and called the film \"an unmitigated flop.\" Divided across 450 theaters, that works out to under $1,300 apiece, but treat that as a rough average, since the first week ran in only four.\n\nThe release came wrapped in friction. Before it opened, Elon Musk called Gibney a \"horrible human\" and dismissed the film as an assembly of people with \"an axe to grind.\" His attorney, Alex Spiro, sent the production team a letter putting them \"on formal legal notice.\" TikTok disabled the film's advertising account, allegedly over \"political content,\" then restored access 48 hours later. On Reddit, users speculated about abrupt screening cancellations.\n\nThose pieces are worth keeping separate, because nothing here links them to the box office. The Reddit comments are speculation, and the TikTok block was reversed within two days. Documentaries about public figures also tend to draw smaller crowds than studio releases, so a modest gross needs no outside explanation.\n\nStill, the pattern is unusual for Gibney. His earlier films include *Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room* in 2005, about one of the largest corporate fraud cases in American history, and *Citizen K* in 2019, on the alliance between Vladimir Putin and a Russian expat billionaire. This time the subject answered publicly, and with a legal letter, before the film reached a screen.\n\nThe theatrical numbers cannot settle the question. A two-week run measures how many theaters booked the film as much as how many people wanted to see it.","[\"elon-musk\",\"documentary\",\"alex-gibney\",\"box-office\"]","2026-10-24T15:34:10.000Z","2026-10-24T16:05:09.485Z","2026-10-24T16:05:09.744Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Name the sources instead of 'one tech site' (Gizmodo, which supplied the $571,902 figure and the 'unmitigated flop' quote) and 'an entertainment news site' (Showbiz411, which first reported the run was ending). Also replace the closing line about streaming numbers 'not part of the reporting', which reads as a source-limitation disclaimer, with a real conclusion, and drop 'Even so', which is awkward.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Showbiz411 and Gizmodo are now named and the closing is a real conclusion, but the draft calls the subject of Citizen K a 'Kremlin-linked oligarch' when the source says only 'a Russian expat billionaire' and describes an alliance with Putin; remove or replace that unsupported characterization, and consider noting that the roughly $1,300-per-theater figure is a rough average since the first week ran in only four theaters.","general",[36,37,38,39],"elon-musk","documentary","alex-gibney","box-office",[41],{"name":42,"url":43},"Mashable","https:\u002F\u002Fmashable.com\u002Fentertainment\u002Fcritical-musk-documentary-ends-theatrical-run-after-just-two-weeks",0,{"sections":46},[47,52,57,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97,100,105,110],{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"AI","ai",7076,"2026-10-23T21:11:07.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Security","security",1064,"2026-10-23T23:25:00.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Policy","policy",584,"2026-10-24T11:35:00.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Deals","deals",571,"2026-10-24T09:00:00.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",298,"2026-10-24T15:02:56.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Hardware","hardware",294,"2026-10-23T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Science","science",218,"2026-10-23T22:48:25.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Startups","startups",148,"2026-10-23T16:26:29.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Software","software",143,"2026-10-23T19:28:10.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":34,"count":99,"latest_published_at":18},"General",102,{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"Gaming","gaming",88,"2026-10-22T22:25:33.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":111,"slug":112,"count":113,"latest_published_at":114},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]