Oh ho oh no: ‘Red One’ fails to take flight for Dwayne Johnson
When a holiday movie reportedly costs $200M, you ask Santa for an opening weekend better than $34.1M.
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of Nov. 15-17, 2024.
1. Red One
Weekend gross: $34.1M
Total domestic gross: $34.1M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA
Not a great debut for Dwayne Johnson’s Christmas movie. I guess there’s a reason that Red One was originally targeted as a direct-to-streaming movie, but when you spend $200 million to make a movie, you need to try to get some of that back at the box office.
It’s not a shock that Red One performed so poorly its opening weekend. (A debut in the $30 million range is OK when you’re a film like The Wild Robot. It’s not great when, once again, it cost $200 million to make a movie.) The reviews have been dismal, and it feels like Johnson had the blinders on when it came to the quality of the film.
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