MGM’s Respect earned $1.05 million (-71%) on Friday for a likely $3.29 million (-63%) weekend and $15.26 million ten-day cume. That’s a brutal drop for a film that cost way too much ($55 million).

To come up with the closing theme of the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” a dream team was assembled but had to work independently during the pandemic from L.A., Chicago, Nashville and even Idaho.

This movie was The Effie White Story (Hudson playing Effie as Aretha). Ask yourself this. Would Aretha Franklin have been happy with a biopic where HER voice was only featured at the end? Yes, she ...