Colin Farrell’s ‘Winter’s Tale’ Is His Third Box-Office Flop in Row

With “Winter’s Tale” misfiring over the weekend, leading man Colin Farrell has suffered another box-office bummer.

The romantic fantasy from Warner Bros. is going to take in less than $10 million over the four-day Presidents Day weekend. That makes three movies in a row in which Farrell has played the leading man that have tanked.

Of course, it’s not all on Farrell. “Winter’s Tale,” written and directed by Akiva Goldsman, was savaged by the critics (14 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) and the complex time-travel tale had to be tricky to market.

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But last March’s FilmDistrict thriller “Dead Man Down” was dead on arrival, opening to $5.3