The lone male audience member at The Graham Norton Show‘s recent episode with Jamie Dornan isn’t the only dude who didn’t like either the book or film versions of Fifty Shades of Grey. On Saturday night, News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter to express his distaste:
Amazing b.o.take for 50 Shades. Cinemas full of middle aged women's groups. But anecdotal evidence they all disappointed!
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) February 14, 2015
According to The Hollywood Reporter, this animosity could be due to Twentieth Century Fox — a News Corp subsidiary — losing out to Universal Pictures and Focus Features during the intense 2012 bidding war for the film rights. Perhaps, or maybe it’s because Murdoch is Murdoch.
(Via Twitter and The Hollywood Reporter)