US box office: Surrounded by controversy, this Christmas movie starring Dwayne Johnson doesn’t live up to expectations

At the US box office from November 15 to 17, 2024

1 – Red: $34,073,448 (New)

2 – Venom: The Last Dance: $7,355,381 (cumulative: $127,600,000)

3 – Best Christmas Contest: $5,400,000 (Cumulative: $19,952,121)

4 – The Heretic: $5,167,153 (cumulative: $20,436,947)

5 – Wild Robot: $4,300,000 (Cumulative: $137,772,840)

6 – Smile 2: $2,950,000 (cumulative: $65,654,432)

7 – Conclave: $2,851,000 (Cumulative: $26,557,905)

8 – Hello, Love, Again: $2,326,000 (New)

9 – True Pain: $2,300,000 (Cumulative: $3,037,466)

10 – Anora: $1,839,000 (cumulative: $10,500,198)

to remember

The calm before the tornado of Gladiator II! The Gladiator movie starring Paul Mezcal and Denzel Washington will only be released in the US next weekend, with a 10-day delay in France.

Meanwhile, another muscular arm is taking the lead at the US box office: Dwayne Johnson’s It! The actor is the headliner red oneA Christmas movie released on November 15th in US theaters and still without a release date in France.

It’s a slightly disappointing start considering the scores the actor has become accustomed to in recent years. As our colleagues at Boxoffice Pro point out, “This Christmas family comedy will be one of the smallest openings in Dwayne Johnson’s recent filmography, which includes his younger audience titles such as Jumanji: The Next Level (2019, $59.2 million opening / $316.8 million cumulative) and Jungle Cruise (2021, $35 million opening / cumulative $116.9 million).“Red On also experienced controversy, rejection, which may have spoiled the feature film’s run across the Atlantic.

The rest of the ranking is without much surprise. The latest installment of the Marvel franchise Venom last dance moves down one place.

A horror movie heretic With Hugh Grant and produced by A24, it’s at #4. It will be released in France on November 27. It has overtaken the top Christmas competition, which is now in 3rd place. “A film with Christian resonance, which is attracting certain American audiences, but currently has no distributor in France“, as our colleagues mentioned earlier Boxoffice Pro.

Jesse Eisenberg’s new Top 10 achievement

The rest of the classification again consists almost exclusively of continuations, except hello love again Sequel to Cathy Garcia-Molina’s Hello, Love, Goodbye, a Filipino film released on Netflix in France. real painJesse Eisenberg’s new work is the 9th. The film will hit the theaters here on February 26, 2025. A successful animated film A wild robotStill in good position (5th), ahead Smile 2 (6th) and Conclave By Edward Berger (7th).

Figures: Box-Office Mojo