Kevin Spacey's new movie ‘Billionaire Boys Club' grossed just $126 on its first night

'Billionaire Boys Club' is the Oscar winner's first movie appearance since accusations of sexual misconduct by multiple men broke last year.|

Kevin Spacey's first film since he was accused of sexual misconduct hit theaters this weekend, and raked in a dismal $126 on opening night.

“Billionaire Boys Club” opened Friday night in eight theaters across the U.S., in cities including Phoenix, Detroit, New Orleans and Miami.

But the James Cox-directed film fared poorly, collecting just $126 on its first day, and scraping together $162 on its second, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie was released on premium video on demand last month, meaning it was never likely to smash any box office records anyway.

But the final figures for its opening weekend were shockingly low, as THR reports the two-day $287 sum means fewer than six people bought tickets in each location. It also marks the lowest opening weekend of Spacey's now-tainted career.

The Oscar-winning star was accused of sexual misconduct last October by multiple men, including actor Anthony Rapp, who said Spacey made an unwanted sexual advance toward him when he was 14.

“Billionaire Boys Club” is the actor's first movie appearance since the accusations broke. He was previously fired from Netflix's “House of Cards,” and had his scenes cut out from Ridley Scott's “All the Money in the World” and replaced with Christopher Plummer.

Vertical Entertainment, the distributor behind “Billionaire,” defended its decision to release the film in June, saying it hoped audiences would be able to see past the claims against Spacey for the sake of the hundreds of other industry members involved in production.

The movie, also starring Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton, was filmed before the allegations. The 1980s-set crime drama is based on a real-life group of young, wealthy Los Angeles boys whose get-rich-quick Ponzi scheme goes awry. It currently has a 13 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

“We hope these distressing allegations pertaining to one person's behavior - that were not publicly known when the film was made almost 2.5 years ago - do not tarnish the release,” Vertical said in a statement.

“We don't condone sexual harassment on any level and we fully support victims of it. At the same time, this is neither an easy nor insensitive decision to release this film in theaters, but we believe in giving the cast, as well as hundreds of crew members who worked hard on the film, the chance to see their final product reach audiences.”

“In the end, we hope audiences make up their own minds as to the reprehensible allegations of one person's past, but not at the expense of the entire cast and crew present on this film,” the statement continued.

Spacey, 59, is under investigation by the Scotland Yard and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for separate sexual assault claims that date back to the early 1990s.

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