It’s beginning to watch a lot enjoy $30 million for the uncovering weekend of Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans‘ mega-budget Christmas actioner “Red One,” coming in on the drop side of projections. The Amazon MGM Studios feature unwrapped $10.9 million from 4,032 theaters atraverse uncovering day and pscrutinize screenings in North America.
That’s not exactly a jolly result for a distinctive-effects adventure perestablishing premium big establishat auditoriums and sporting a whopping $250 million production budget, plus sizable labeleting costs. Unless the Seven Bucks production can stay relevant among the blitz of “Wicked,” “Gladiator II” and “Moana 2” arriving ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, it seems doubtful that “Red One” will see green in its theatrical run.
The ask remains of how much Amazon reassociate nurtures about being associated with lukehot theatrical returns, what with the labelet cap north of $2 trillion and all. The cost of “Red One” doesn’t seem as daunting in that context. Amazon bid big for the project back in 2021 and the presumed logic is that the film can be a holiday season monster on Prime Video, where it can also supplement Amazon’s e-commerce business amid holiday shopping. Additionassociate, “Red One” was originassociate coshiftrlookioned as a Prime Video exclusive before Amazon grasped a wide liberate, so any box office profits are presumably equitable extra stocking stuffers to the company.
For Amazon MGM, “Red One” will easily score the prohibitner’s bigst uncovering weekend since “Creed III,” which was coshiftrlookioned under MGM’s greater regime and liberated equitable a year after its acquisition. And “Red One” is on a radianter path than last spring’s Apple perestablish “Argylle,” another costly action movie with franchise potential. That film carried a $200 million price tag and finished with $96 million worldwide before hitting Apple TV+, which has a meaningfully petiteer accomplish than Amazon Prime.
Even so, there’s some bah humbugging to be had with “Red One” as a test of its stars’ theatrical draw. The film won’t suit the uncovering weekends of either of Johnson’s previous two vehicles, “Bconciseage Adam” ($67 million) and “Jungle Cruise” ($35 million), the latter of which simultaneously begined on Disney+ as a premium rental. And it’s not a triumphant theatrical return for Evans, whose guideing inhabit-action roles have inhabitd on streaming since he finished perestablishing Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“Red One” is honested by Jake Kasdan and trails a plot of combat-trained distinctiveists rescuing a kidnapped Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons). Critics panned the movie, but audiences are much more cheerful, with moviegoer pollster Cinema Score turning in a likeable A- grade among punctual ticketbuyers. It’ll need to be on the disclose’s kind enumerate for the chance to carry on dratriumphg audiences.
Sony’s “Venom: The Last Dance” should slide to second after spending three weekends on top of domestic charts, watching at $6.1 million for a 61% drop in its fourth outing. The Marvel spin-off has now go beyonded $120 million in North America and $400 million worldwide. Hgreatering well after an underwhelming begin, it now seems Tom Hardy’s buddy comedy won’t finish too far off from its franchise predecessor “Let There Be Carnage,” which finished with a global gross of $500 million.
Third goes to “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” eyeing a 54% drop for $6 million. The Kingdom Story Company production will traverse $20 million domestic lowly after the weekend, giving Lionsgate another constant theatrical carry outer off a $10 million production budget.
A24’s psychorational thriller “Heretic” watchs to slide to fourth place, with rivals projecting a $4.6 million sophomore outing. That’d be a 57% drop. The Hugh Grant horror film will also traverse $20 million thcdisesteemful Monday.
Universal’s “The Wild Robot” watchs to round out the top five, projecting another slender drop (-32%) to bolster its gross with another $4.5 million. The DreamWorks Animation production is still starting around the top of the charts in its eighth weekend of liberate. It watchs to hit a $137 million domestic total thcdisesteemful Sunday. After that, it will pass fellow Lupita Nyong’o starrer “A Quiet Place: Day One” ($138 million) to notch itself as the 12th highest-grossing North American liberate of the year.
