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Hands up: Who's seen the latest Shia LaBeouf movie Man Down?Bayo (2025) You know, the messy war drama that the New York Timescalled a "sadistic and ghoulish spectacle," that widely-panned release currently enjoying a 15 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 26/100 on Metacritic?

No one? Well, it did even worse in the UK.

SEE ALSO: I called up Shia LaBeouf to try and touch his soul

Only one person went to see Man Downwhen it opened last weekend in a single theatre, the Reel Cinema in Burnley, Varietyreports.

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That single individual would have paid £7, or $8.70, according to ComScore, in what the company's senior media analyst deemed a potential Guinness World Record. Not exactly a budget-recouping success.

The single showing happened concurrently with its release on digital platforms where it presumably fared a little better. The film also reportedly made some $454,000 in the U.S., but you wouldn't know that from its sorry Wiki page Tuesday.

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LaBeouf has long since stepped away from hugely successful movie releases like Transformers, the fourth Indiana Jones film and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in favor of more indie films and his artier projects.

In December 2015, he invited people to touch his soul, just over a year ago he spent 24 hours in an elevator at Oxford University, and in January he started up a four-year anti-Trump live stream which resulted in his arrest, was taken over by alt-right trolls and eventually closed after a few weeks.

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