Margot Robbie’s new £33m film BOMBS at UK box office despite star wearing see-through gown to promote it

BARBIE star Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell’s new £33million movie has bombed at the box office — taking just £532,000 in its UK opening weekend.

Romantic fantasy A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, which received luke-warm critic reviews, failed to crack the top five most-watched films.

Margot Robbie on the red carpet at the UK premiere of "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey." — Margot Robbie dazzled in a backless, bejewelled see-through gown at the film’s London premiereCredit: Getty

Margot Robbie from behind in a backless, sheer, embroidered gown. — Aussie actress Margot’s latest film received luke-warm critic reviewsCredit: Getty

Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell in a car scene from "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey." — She starred in romantic fantasy A Big Bold Beautiful Journey alongside Colin FarrellCredit: AP

That is despite its female lead attracting huge international attention in a backless, bejewelled see-through gown when she recently attended the London premiere.

Instead, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale topped the box office, taking £2.3million in its second weekend of release.

Margot and Colin’s movie made an average of £820 per cinema it was shown in, which amounts to around 100 seats in each of the 649 venues for the whole weekend.

It is the first movie which Margot, 35, has starred in since 2023’s blockbuster Barbie — which took £18.5million during its opening weekend in UK cinemas.

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The Aussie actress and Ireland’s Colin, 49, play two strangers who meet at a wedding and use a rental car’s magical GPS to revisit their own traumas and heartbreaks in a bid to heal from the past, so they can find romance again.

They flew to London earlier this month to walk the red carpet at the premiere.

But Margot later admitted she still had not seen the film as she decided to go and do karaoke with her friends instead.

During an appearance on Radio 2 last week, host Scott Mills referred to a scene in the film and she replied: “Did that make the cut? You know more than us.”

Asked if she had gone to the premiere, she said: “I attended, but didn’t watch. I met up with my friends afterwards.

“We ended up doing karaoke until one in the morning in Chinatown.

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“I was belting out Celine Dion until the wee hours. We did full Titanic. You can’t do karaoke and not do Celine.”

She will next be on the big screen in an erotic remake of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, opposite Euphoria and Saltburn star Jacob Elordi, 28, as Heathcliff.

The film, which has been written, directed and produced by Emerald Fennell, will feature Margot as Catherine Earnshaw.

Adolescence’s Emmy winner Owen Cooper, 15, will play a young Heathcliff.

A trailer for the movie was released a fortnight ago and has already racked up 11million views on YouTube ahead of its release on February 13 next year.