Feb.21.2008 Jessica Simpson is big in the Ukraine
So Jessica Simpson might be tanking as an actress in the US, but she’s the biggest thing to hit the Ukraine since…uh…those stupid furry hats.
The blond starlet seems to be the toast of the Eastern European nation. Her latest film, Blonde Ambition, hit No. 1 in Ukraine, grossing $253,008 for the weekend of Feb. 14-17, Box Office Mojo reports.
It’s a huge reversal of fortune for the film, which bombed back home. In December, Blonde Ambition had a run in eight Texas theaters, grossing just $1,771 in its opening weekend.
How to explain the comedy’s success abroad? One word: escapism.
“The former Soviet nations have a sweet tooth for straight-up comedies,” Conor Bresnan, editor in chief of Box Office Mojo International, tells PEOPLE. “When these comedies have big name celebrities like Jessica Simpson’s, that’s all that’s needed to sell the movie. Russian and Ukrainian audiences have an even bigger urge for escapism than Americans. So, films like Blonde Ambition will gross more than No Country for Old Men.
Well of course the Ukranians want to escape to a world of hot dumb blonds and slapstick comedy. They like have nothing going for them other than accents that make them sound like Bond villains and vodka. I couldn’t even tell you anything about the Ukraine other than that episode of Seinfeld where the Ukranian dude destroys Kramer and Newman’s game of Risk for saying the Ukraine is weak. Then Kramer calls him the N-word and everyone laughs.
I would think that the Ukraine would relate to Javier Bardem’s Prince Valiant haircut in No Country for Old Men though. At least the retards in the country.
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