Gerard Butler’s 63% Rotten Tomatoes Heist Thriller Claims High Streaming Spot After $56 Million Field Workplace Disappointment

Gerard Butler’s newest film arrived on streaming this weekend and wasted no time turning into a hit. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera hit Netflix on Friday, and whereas it had different movies resembling Kraven the Hunter (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and The Electric State (Chris Pratt) to cope with, it nonetheless had no bother turning into the #1 hottest film on the streamer. This comes after the movie debuted in theaters in January and underperformed on the field workplace, finishing its global run with only $56 million in opposition to a $40 million finances. The primary Den of Thieves grossed over $80 million globally, and though its sequel earned the strongest scores from each critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, it failed to attain the identical field workplace success.

After incomes largely robust opinions and opening with $15 million on the field workplace the weekend of January 10, it got here as a shock to many to see Den of Thieves 2 go away theaters lower than six weeks later with a worldwide whole of greater than $20 million wanting the unique. Nevertheless, issues tapered off rapidly for the motion sequel on the field workplace, beginning on its second weekend in theaters when it fell 56% and earned $6.5 million, falling behind Mufasa: The Lion King and One of Them Days. The autumn was equally scary for Den of Thieves 2 throughout its third weekend in theaters — it dipped one other 55%, incomes lower than $3 million and virtually falling out of the highest 10, shedding to Moana 2 and Wolf Man. Den of Thieves 2 accomplished its remaining weekend in theaters on February 14 with solely $173,000 domestically.