NEW YORK (AP) -- The FIFA-financed movie ''United Passions'' made only about $900 over the weekend, according to a person who has seen box-office data from the 10 theaters the film played in and was granted anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the figures.
Made for about $30 million and largely bankrolled by FIFA to trumpet the soccer federation's 111-year history, ''United Passions'' had no expectations of drawing crowds. But the minuscule result was still a striking repudiation of a high-priced FIFA puff piece starring Tim Roth as the recently resigned FIFA President Sepp Blatter.
''United Passions'' initially was released in a handful of European markets last summer, timed to the 2014 World Cup.