UPDATE: SURPRISE the total was $6.7 million. DOA.

UPDATE: Friday night box office was $2.1 million for a likely $5 million weekend. Time of death: now.

Twenty seven years ago, Sony released Joel Schumacher’s “Flatliners.” The cast was amazing: Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon, Billy Baldwin, Hope Davis. Michael Douglas was one of the producers. The movie was a hit, careers were launched.

Now comes the “Flatliners” reboot. Why, oh why? Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, whose main credit is the original 2009 Swedish “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the new version is a Disaster. It was so bad Sony embargoed review til the last minute. The result: a rare Zero on Rotten Tomatoes.

As in O. Goose egg.

The new “Flatliners” features Ellen Page, which is a good thing. Diego Luna is in it, and he’s talented but not a star. Nina Dobrev, from TV’s “Vampire Diaries,” is not Julia Roberts from 1990. James Norton is British, and known so far to fans of the BBC’s “Grantchester.”

Basically, everything has gone wrong.

Now Sony waits for Friday box office numbers. On Thursday night, Sony skipped preview showing altogether, which is rare these days.  The original made $61 million, which $116 million in 2017 dollars.

Oh and that zero on Rotten Tomatoes? It is really really rare.

So stay tuned…

UPDATE Friday brought in $6.1 million, about a million higher than “Jack Reacher” or “Rock of Ages.” “American Made” could have a $16 million weekend, making it Cruise’s third worst opening.

Not a lot of people wanted to see “American Made” during its four week international run up to a  US opening. It’s made $58 million so far, spread out over two dozen territories.

But now “American Made” is facing a $13 million weekend– not an opening night but a weekend. The Tom Cruise thriller-suspense-comedy, directed by Doug Liman, is not going to be anywhere near a “Mission Impossible” size blockbuster.

Cruise’s last really bad openings in wide release were both in 2012– “Jack Reacher” (15.2 million) and “Rock of Ages” ($14.4 mil).  (Did he really make “Rock of Ages”? What were they thinking?)

This bad news is despite very good reviews. “American Made” has an 85 on Rotten Tomatoes, and most actual critics really liked it, not just basement bloggers.

But something is wrong. Is it the title? No one knows. The marketing problem is Cruise himself, who’s not doing any real press or giving interviews for many reasons including the death of two stunt pilots while filming the realistic flying scenes.

The movie also had no premiere (which I think sucks for Liman, who did an excellent job). “American Made” is basically opening in a vacuum.

Luckily, the other big opener today is “Flatliners,” which is so bad apparently that Sony skipped having Thursday night previews. Get ready for “Flatliners Flatlines” headlines on Saturday morning.

Advice: go see “Battle of the Sexes,” which expands to more cities today. Emma Stone and Steve Carell, as well as Sarah Silverman, are just perfect.

Exclusive: it does seem like Julian Schnabel’s bio pic of the legendary artist Van Gogh is going ahead with casting.

Willem Dafoe — getting raves right now in “The Florida Project” — was already announced as Vincent. By the movie the movie is not called “Lend me an Ear” or even “Starry Starry Night.” It’s “At Eternity’s Gate.”

But now I’m hearing that Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron to you) is joining the cast as either Theo Van Gogh, Vincent’s brother and art dealer, or artist Paul Gaugin. He’s definitely in, say sources.

Also in is Rupert Friend, recently killed off of “Homeland.” He would be Van Gogh’s physician at the end of his life, Dr. Gachet.

Vincent and Theo — immortalized on film in a movie of that name by Robert Altman– each died in 1890. Vincent was 37, Theo was 33. So I’m not sure how Dafoe, though a great actor, will do at 62.  But it sure sounds interesting. Maybe Dafoe should play Gaugin, who died at 53. But hey, no one asked me.

It’s time for Schnabel, a great artist himself, to get back behind the camera. “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “Before Night Falls,” and “Basquiat” are wonderful films that everyone should see.

The very stupid Megyn Kelly could not keep Hollywood royalty like Jane Fonda and Robert Redford down last night. Netflix threw them a star studded premiere for their new film, “Our Souls at Night,” which premieres Friday on the streaming service but also opens in theaters in New York and Los Angeles.

The Fonda-Redford screening was at the Museum of Modern Art followed by a packed reception at the Oak Room of the Plaza Hotel. Megyn Kelly was the farthest thing from anyone’s mind during the night. I ran into a ton of stars including my old pals actress Brenda Vaccaro and former Today show host Jill Rappaport (who’s got her own show now).

But the focus was on Fonda and Redford who previously starred together in “Barefoot in the Park” in the 1960s and Alan Pakula’s “The Electric Horseman” in the late 1970s. They’ve always wanted to do another film together. “Our Souls at Night” is based on the best selling novel by the late novelist Kent Haruf.

A sparsely told tale in print, “Our Souls” comes alive on screen with these two famed actors. They each give exquisite performances, detailed and moving. Each of the characters– Addie and Louis– has been widowed for some time in their small town of Holt, Colorado. One day Addie simply knocks on Louis’s door, says she’s lonely, and proposes that they sleep together at night– not sex, just sleep and talk.

Soon it comes to more than that– not just sex–but a deeper understanding of how the two people have conducted their lives. “Everyone has a past,” Addie says to those who question the relationship. There has to be a time when all is forgiven. Life is too short to hold on to mistakes.

Netflix is on a roll this week. “Our Souls” will be joined by Noah Baumbach’s “The Meyerowitz Stories,” one of the best movies of the year, next week. But for fans of beautifully made films, “Our Souls at Night” should be a go-to choice this weekend on the streaming service.