I like Matthew McConaughey, our Texas star of the moment. This is a guy everyone had written off as a rom-com himbo, a relic of a bygone era. Then he turns around and proves his real talent. I love that. And that he wears his UT pride on his sleeve.

Unfortunately, not everything he touches is going to be gold. This is to be expected.

I was concerned when I saw the headline, "'Sea of Trees' Has Made $2,730 in 5 Days." Yikes!

Hold on: the movie played in ONE theater, the Sundance Sunset Cinema, in West Hollywood. So, yeah, that's not great - only 273 people went to see this movie at $10 a pop - but this film is not in wide general release.

Former Fox News columnist Roger Friedman, who wrote the article and runs the site, seems to want this film to be an epic flop. "Well, we did say that Gus van Sant’s “The Sea of Trees” was going to be a bomb," he wrote. "And it was."

One film in one theater not even for a whole week, that hardly seems fair. Yet director Gus Van Sant's own hometown paper, The Seattle Times, called the film, "a tangled mess."

London's Daily Mail says Sea of Trees "has barely managed to make a dent in its production $25million cost." Why does a drama with no CGI cost so much to make? Who bankrolls this kind of risk? Not Lionsgate, who dropped the picture after it received boos when it played at the Cannes Film Festival. Wow!

It's also unfortunate that this a major downer of a film. Matthew is suicidal, his wife Naomi Watts has a brain tumor. Not necessarily in that order.

So what's next for Matthew McConaughey? Nothing to do with forestry, hopefully.

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