In a post strikes-COVID theatrical landscape where everyone is still trying to figure out what works, along comes Paramount ‘s $110 million reboot The Running Man starring affable star-on-the-rise Glen Powell hot off Top Gun Maverick ($1.49 billion global B.O.) and Twisters ($372M global) , and it completely trips up in its U.S. ( $17M ) and global ( $28.2M ) opening. Running Man was completely blindsided by Lionsgate’s surprise No. 1 start of Now You See Me: Now You Don’t which did $21.3M domestic, and $75.5M worldwide.

From a distance, the third tentpole bet on Powell was in it to win it with Baby Driver filmmaker Edgar Wright attached to direct and re-co-adapt the Stephen King tome (penned under his Richard Bachman pseudonym) about a working man in a dystopian

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