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"Benedict Cumberbatch has discussed the financial failure of The Fifth Estate. The Bill Condon-directed drama about WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was recently named the biggest financial flop of the year, earning back only 21% of its budget at the international box office.  &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s a better film than many that have done better than it did at the box office, and why that&amp;#039;s the case I don&amp;#039;t know,&amp;quot; Cumberbatch told Digital Spy and other journalists. &amp;quot;I can take a hit, in the sense that I&amp;#039;ve had good hits as well, but [box office] isn&amp;#039;t why I do the work. I mean, of course there&amp;#039;s a concern actors have about being bankable, but it hasn&amp;#039;t seemed to affect the industry&amp;#039;s interest in me or the offers I&amp;#039;ve had since.&amp;quot;  Reviews of the film, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, were mixed, although Cumberbatch&amp;#039;s performance as Assange was universally praised.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve had very positive feedback about my work in that film, and if I was asked to do the job again, I&amp;#039;d do it,&amp;quot; he added. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a fascinating character in an extraordinary period.&amp;quot; Cumberbatch will next be seen in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which is released this Friday (December 13). Watch a trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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