Its more than the fact that people "don't like/thinks is a threat".
The American culture in the past few decades or so have become very 'now' oriented. Assange is old news. Most news here is now on the Snowden story (and by the time Hollywood makes a picture out of it, that could be old news too).
With everything going on in the US right now, people don't want to go to movies to be educated. With the cost of a movie ticket in most areas, if a family (or even a couple) are going to spend that much on admission (and lets not even get into the cost of refreshments if they want any), they want to be entertained, taken away from reality, find some relief from the bad stuff in the news.
And really? Benedict Cumberbatch is not a well known name here in the states yet to a large percentage of the population. It's not that big a draw to a lot of demographics.
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The American culture in the past few decades or so have become very 'now' oriented. Assange is old news. Most news here is now on the Snowden story (and by the time Hollywood makes a picture out of it, that could be old news too).
With everything going on in the US right now, people don't want to go to movies to be educated. With the cost of a movie ticket in most areas, if a family (or even a couple) are going to spend that much on admission (and lets not even get into the cost of refreshments if they want any), they want to be entertained, taken away from reality, find some relief from the bad stuff in the news.
And really? Benedict Cumberbatch is not a well known name here in the states yet to a large percentage of the population. It's not that big a draw to a lot of demographics.