NICOLE Kidman's latest film, The Invasion, has tanked in the United States, with slim takings of $7.5 million last weekend.
The $100 million sci-fi flick co-starring Daniel Craig required reshoots this year during which Kidman broke several ribs in a car chase stunt.
The reshoots -- by the Matrix's Wachowski brothers -- set off a string of damaging rumours about the quality of the film and studio Warner Bros didn't even hold an American premiere.
The film finished fifth in the US, beaten by teen comedy Superbad and three films, which have been showing for several weeks.
It follows a string of flops for Kidman, who last fortnight appeared at No. 20 on a profitability list of the world's stars compiled by Forbes magazine, her films earning $9 for every $1 she was paid, as opposed to Matt Damon, who rakes in $34 for every dollar.
Yet Kidman last year replaced Julia Roberts as the highest-paid female actor in Hollywood, when she was paid $21 million for her part in The Invasion.
Kidman's performance in The Invasion was derided as being "hugely narcissistic" by the New York Post.
"Kidman, despite her decent acting chops, cannot seem to open a movie," wrote Entertainment Weekly.
The last Kidman film to do reasonably well at the box office was the UN thriller The Interpreter in 2005.
But in the years since her breakthrough hit, To Die For, she's seen the likes of Bewitched, Birth, Stepford Wives and The Human Stain fail to leave a box-office mark.
Her choice of combining interesting independent features including Fur, Birth and The Human Stain with potential blockbusters has failed to pay off with the Oscar-winning The Hours one of the few winners on her slate.
But there are at least two bright spots: The Golden Compass -- a fantasy based on a best-selling children's book series by the producers of Lord of the Rings -- and Baz Luhrmann's Australia, a star-studded epic.
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