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Amazon MGM Studios’ Red One will be streaming on Prime Video worldwide on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. The movie will continue to be booked in theaters.
Maintaining a 28-day theatrical window, the $200M+ Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans starring, Jake Kasdan directed, Seven Bucks production grossed $85.7M domestic, $164M worldwide through Sunday. The movie was playing at 3,150 theaters stateside this past weekend, and 4,000 screens abroad. The movie was originally greenlit for the service, and flipped to theatrical.
The theatrical window for Red One is on par w that of previous big Amazon MGM Studios movies, i.e. Air and Saltburn.
Prime Video counts more than 200M subscribers around the world with availability in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Amazon has specified is that Red One‘s finances aren’t judged on the motion picture studio standard of P&L, rather are accounted for in the movie’s success on the service and impact in the overall shopping portal. Essentially, if the studio could cover its marketing costs via Red One‘s theatrical release, it would raise the profile of the movie further, and sustains its legs in the downstream, despite a low domestic opening of $32.1M for an event movie of this scale.
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Johnson is the first Hollywood star since Nicolas Cage in June 1997 with Face Off and Con-Air to have two No. 1 openings in a given month. Red One received an A- CinemaScore and 90% on the Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter.
Previous holiday success on Prime Video include last year’s Candy Cane Lane (Dec. 1, 2023 drop) which was original IP and accumulated 803 million minutes of watch time upon debut, as well as the Doug Liman-directed, Jake Gyllehaal starring, Road House (March 21) which pulled in 1.32 billion minutes of watch time upon debut per Nielsen.