Rupert Murdoch stoood up at a shareholders meeting and announced that his studio, 20th Century Fox, was set to lose a whopping US$20million (GB£10.5million) on Ridley Scott's A Good Year, and that's despite it just being released in the US last week.

According to his comments through The Guardian, The Devil Wears Prada was set to make a profit of over US$100million. Prada was produced for somewhere around US£17m with Year costing around US$35million. Murdoch said:

"You've got to take the rough with the smooth," he said, adding that the movie business was "a bit of a lottery"

Well lottery it may be sometimes, but most of us saw by the trailer what the film was made of and how it was treading all too familiar and worn ground. Some reviewers have been slightly harsher though. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw had this to say about the film:

"a humourless slice of tourist gastro-porn" and claimed that Crowe was hopelessly miscast in the role. "Anyone would have been better in this part," he wrote. "Steven Seagal would have been better. Janette Krankie would have been better."

Wow, I think that's incredibly attacking and I'm sure it could have been put much more pleasantly, but he does point out the obvious. Something that was obvious from the trailer too. Crowe was not suited for this film, indeed Ridley Scott was not suited for this film either. One wonders what either of them were thinking, or Mr Murdoch for bankrolling the tired old idea in the first place.