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The Running Man is going through a rough ride at the box office, and the latest weekend made the situation even clearer. The movie has suffered a significant drop in its second weekend in the US, and the numbers have reached a point where the team behind it can only watch the slide. The film managed to keep its theatre count intact, but the commercial performance has fallen short of what the makers hoped for. The Stephen King adaptation never really gained momentum after its release on November 14, and the signs were already evident from the slow weekdays and the lukewarm global turnout.
To make things worse, everything took a sharper turn this Friday when Ariana Grande’s Wicked For Good arrived with its record-breaking wave and swept away whatever small chance The Running Man had of building any sort of comeback. The arrival of the musical pushed the film further down the pecking order, and with a steep budget of $110 million looming over it, the hope of breaking even has grown increasingly thin.
The Running Man Box Office Numbers Fall Short of Expectations
So far, The Running Man has earned $48.3 million worldwide. Out of this, $27 million came from the United States from its 3,534 theatres, while the other $21.3 million rolled in from overseas markets. The film opened to $16.4 million in its debut weekend with an average of $4,667 per theatre, but the latest weekend painted a very different picture as the movie fell by 64.8% compared to its opening frame. The weekday performance before the second weekend gave a warning already, as the film earned less than a million on both Wednesday and Thursday.
