The Running Man is a Stephen King adaptation that’s experiencing an underwhelming box office run. The film earned below the tracking range, making it harder for it to select up pace now. It still needs a significant jump on the box office to simply recuperate its huge budget. The dystopian thriller is predicted to flop on the theaters. Keep scrolling to understand how rather more it must recuperate its budget.
The movie is directed by Edgar Wright, and it’s reportedly his most costly film. The forged includes Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin. It received mixed reviews, not strong enough to reserve it from becoming a business failure.
The Running Man on the worldwide box office
In line with Box Office Mojo’s latest data, The Running Man collected just $5.7 million on the domestic box office on its second weekend. It declined by 65.3% from last weekend when it opened within the theaters. The movie collected $773k on its second Monday, with a decline of 22.9% from the previous Monday. The domestic total of the film hits $27.7 million. Internationally, the movie collected $21.3 million after eleven days, bringing the worldwide total to $49.04 million.
Worldwide collection breakdown
- North America – $27.7 million
- International – $21.3 million
- Worldwide – $49.0 million
The Running Man needs over 124% jump simply to recuperate its budget
In line with media reports, The Running Man was made on a large budget of $110 million. It puts the movie in a highly budgeted group. Glen Powell’s film needs greater than $50 million to recuperate its budget, which is a large 124.5% leap from its current box office collection. Reaching the break-even point is out of reach for this Stephen King adaptation. For the uninitiated, reaching the break-even goal requires roughly $275 million. To hit the break-even goal, the dystopian thriller needs a 461% jump on the worldwide box office.
What’s the film about?
The story follows Ben Richards (Glen Powell), a desperate father in a near-future society who enters The Running Man, a deadly TV competition where contestants must survive 30 days while being hunted for the nation’s entertainment. As he becomes an unexpected fan favorite, Ben’s fight to remain alive turns right into a challenge against the ruthless showrunner Dan Killian (Josh Brolin) and a system hooked on watching him fall. The Running Man was released on November 14.
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