sentences:  8 on the DVD/Home Rentals chart at Box Office Mojo, and had grossed $16.61 million in DVD sales as of December 23, 2007.Following its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, "El Cantante" earned mostly negative reviews from critics and currently holds a 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 106 reviews.Robert Koehler of "Variety" felt that the biopic, which contained "many standard-issue biopic montage sequences", was only "geared for the bigscreen, but the fairly bland visual design will make pic more than suitable to be seen on the tube".