Johnny Depp’s Alice Through The Looking Glass just flopped in the box office and it may be the end of the A-list actor’s acting career.
Prior to the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s divorce controversy, Disney’s Alice Through The Looking Glass was expected to be a hit movie in the box office. However, the latest Alice in Wonderland movie flopped in the box office which has many people asking the question: Is Johnny Depp’s acting career over?
According to reports, Alice Through The Looking Glass was expected to earn $116 million dollars in the box office but, the Johnny Depp flick is only expected to earn only $35 million in the box office over the long weekend, which is a decline of about 70%.
The Hollywood Reporter points out that the bad numbers maybe directly correlated with Amber Heard’s divorce.
Box-office observers attributed the movie’s weak performance on opening day more to bad notices rather than to the headlines surrounding Depp, but said that if estimates kept falling off throughout the weekend, it indeed meant the news about the actor was starting to have a chilling effect.
And if this divorce continues to escalate in the press, it may just ruin Johnny Depp’s acting career.
“These allegations, if true, pose a serious threat to the box-office longevity of Johnny Depp. Obviously time heals all wounds, but this is certainly having a toll on Depp and Alice,” says analyst Jeff Bock. “‘Alice in Blunderland’ is more like it.”
This all started after Amber Heard filed a restraining order after alleging Depp assaulted her. Heard claims Johnny Depp abused her throughout the course of their relationship in a court petition she filed on Friday, when she was granted a temporary restraining order against her estranged husband.
“During the entirety of our relationship, Johnny has been verbally and physically abusive to me,” Heard, 30, alleges in court documents revealed by ET. “I endured excessive emotional, verbal and physical abuse from Johnny, which has included angry, hostile, humiliating and threatening assaults to me whenever I questioned his authority or disagreed with him.”
According to ET documents, Amber Heard claims in the filing that the 52-year-old actor has issues with drugs and abuses alcohol.
“Johnny has a long-held and widely-acknowledged public and private history of drug and alcohol abuse. He has a short fuse.” She adds, “He is often paranoid and his temper is exceptionally scary for me as it has proven many times to be physically dangerous and/or life threatening to me.”
Amber Heard continues: “Johnny[‘s] relationship with reality oscillates, depending upon his interaction with alcohol and drugs,” it continues. “As Johnny’s paranoia, delusions and aggression increased throughout our relationship, so has my awareness of his continued substance abuse.”
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Amber Heard alleges her last physical confrontation with Johnny Depp happened this past Saturday and she alleges Depp threw a cell phone at her causing her to get a bruise near her eye. “He was inebriated and high,” Heard claims in the filing.
“Johnny then grabbed the cell phone, wound up his arm like a baseball pitcher and threw the cell phone at me striking my cheek and eye with great force,” Heard claims. “He then forceably pulled back my hair as I attempted to stand from the sofa … Johnny continued screaming at me, pulling my hair, striking me and violently grabbing my face.”
Amber Heard says she lives in “fear that Johnny will return to the residence unannounced to terrorize me, physically and emotionally,” according to the documents.
However, it’s important to point out that in 2010, Alice in Wonderland earned $1.025 billion for Disney. But, since then, Johnny Depp has not been able to pull in big audiences to the theaters in a very long time. In fact, outside of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and mob pic Black Mass (2015). Depp has suffered several box office disasters, including Dark Shadows (2012), The Lone Ranger (2013), Transcendence (2014) and Mortdecai (2015).
Is Johnny Depp’s acting career over? It may be too soon to tell but, Depp is definitely not having a good Memorial Day weekend.
