Amazon MGM’s “Red One” is flying low at the box office, earning $10.9 million from 4,032 theaters on Friday as it is estimated for a $30 million opening.
That’s on the low end of pre-release projections of $30-34 million, which itself was a bleak outlook for this $250 million production that faced plenty of snafus first reported by TheWrap.
The only silver lining for “Red One” is that early audiences, many of whom are likely to be fans of lead star Dwayne Johnson, enjoyed the film to the tune of an A- on CinemaScore. That’s better than the B+ earned by Johnson’s DC film “Black Adam” in 2022.