If Desert Warrior was one of Saudi Arabia’s big cinema swings, then it looks to have been a swing and a miss, based on the movie’s early box office takings. Starring Captain America ’s Anthony Mackie and Oscar winner Ben Kingsley, Desert Warrior endured a troubled five-year trek to the screen, but finally debuted in theaters last weekend across the U.S. and Middle East. Set up at Riyadh media giant MBC Group and acquired by Vertical , the movie has suffered bruising headlines based on its performance in the U.S., where it had grossed $596,000 on 1,010 screens as of Thursday, and been billed as one of the biggest box office flops in history .  Vertical’s marketing has unsurprisingly spotlighted Mackie, Kingsley, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt’s spectacular shots of Saudi sands, but cinemagoers have ultimately not responded to Desert Warrior ’s rallying cry, and it looks unlikely to recoup its $150M budget. Not that expectations were ever that high.…