‘Red One’ Opens Cold at Box Office With $34 Million Opening Weekend

Dwayne Johnson’s $250 million action film has opened similar to cheaper films of his like “Skyscraper” and “Central Intelligence”

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Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans in "Red One" (Amazon MGM Studios)

Amazon MGM’s “Red One” has seen its numbers improve after an uptick in ticket sales on Saturday, but it still doesn’t look like it will leave much of a mark at the box office with a domestic opening weekend of $34 million from 4,032 theaters.

Let’s start with the good news: the Seven Bucks-produced Christmas action film starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans performed above Friday estimates with $13.2 million grossed on Saturday, and the film earned an A- on CinemaScore and an 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes after getting mostly negative reviews from critics. That could help the film as it tries to leg out into December as a seasonal offering.

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