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FIFA film flops at the box office after making just £397 in first two days

A film about the history of FIFA flops at the US box office by making just $607 (£397) in its first two days of release.

A new film about the history of football's world governing body FIFA has flopped at the box office after making just $607 (£397) in its first two days of release in the United States.

FIFA is said to have put £17m of its own money into film United Passions, which stars Tim Roth as outgoing president Sepp Blatter.

The picture was shown on only 10 screens in the US and it was released just weeks after 14 people were indicted by the US authorities on allegations of bribery, money laundering and racketeering from the early 1990s to the present day.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, just one person bought a ticket to watch the movie at the FilmBar cinema in Phoenix, while The Village Voice described the piece as "not merely ham-fisted, but pork-shouldered, bacon-wristed, and sausage-elbowed".

Blatter resigned as FIFA president last week, but the 79-year-old does not face any charges.

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President of FIFA, Joseph 'Sepp' Blatter, gives a press conference following a meeting of the FIFA task force with Paletestinian and Israelian football federations in Zurich, on September 3, 2013
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