Despite news that this holiday season will "be fucked" for movies, Tom Cruise's Valkyrie is a standout since it is now all but guaranteed to bomb. Waah waah, we're all in the same, sinking boat. At least Cruise has it coming to him.

So after the jump, some reasons why there is less hope for United Artist's success than Claus von Stauffenberg's of killing Hitler:

• UA is going down the crapper: Paula Wagner left, MGM is dropping films left and right, and the company's promised $500 million came from Merrill Lynch, which is now kaput. How are they even going advertise this thing, the release date of which has already been pushed around several times (never a good sign)?

• The movie has no market: According to an industry insider, "You sit there and say, 'Who am I selling this movie to? Who’s the audience? And the answer is, No one." Not good news for the Oscar season contender, which is vying for an increasingly smaller market along with the Kate/Leo guarantee Revolutionary Road, Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, and Benjamin Button.

• No one even tried to do a German accent for the film: Oh come on, it's like they don't even care if people see this.