But it didn't reach a broader audience. Nobody reads books (2006), that's why they made a movie "Kill The Messenger" (2014).
But the movie had a horrible US release despite its huge starpower, was successful only internationally and won some prices on US festivals. It opened on 427 screens (medium), had good reviews and stayed 2 weeks big, but gathered only 2.5M USD. That's a horrible number with that many screens and a 5M budget.
An explanation would be the complete lack of advertising by the producers Focus Pictures. It was buried.
There was a private petition to re-release the movie after several weeks of silence, which gained huge momentum, and was quite a controversy.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)...
- http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=killthemessenger.htm
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/business?ref_=ttrel_sa_3