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The Running Man Worldwide Box Office – Nears The Global Total Of Meg Ryan & Russell Crowe’s Early 2000s Action Thriller

The dystopian action thriller The Running Man, the second adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel, is now in its third week in theaters. With a current global haul of $60.5 million, the Edgar Wright-directed feature has yet to enter 2025’s top 50 highest-grossing titles (as per Box Office Mojo). To reach that milestone, it must surpass the worldwide total of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2025 re-release), which stands at $61.8 million – a target it’s expected to hit in the coming days.

After crossing the $60 million mark, the Glen Powell-led film is also closing in on the global earnings of another 2025 dystopian thriller based on a Stephen King novel, The Long Walk, which has accumulated $63.1 million worldwide. This means The Running Man needs around $2.6 million more to overtake it. Before reaching that benchmark, the film is also on track to surpass the global total of an early-2000s action thriller starring Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe. We’re talking about the 2000 film Proof of Life. Here’s how much more The Running Man needs to earn to outperform that title at the worldwide box office.

Drill Baby Drill

Looks like I missed Edgar Wright’s remake of The Running Man, already out of most theaters and dropping precipitously at the box office (I don’t care about the money, just who’s seeing what and when; I had no idea Zootopia was popular enough to dethrone Wicked in its second weekend. And I think about this.) The Running Man was already a hit in 1987 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, directed by Paul Michael Glaser from one of Stephen King’s Richard Bachman novels. It’s a good premise: in a dystopian future similar to Death Race 2000, the most popular program on television is trained assassins (“stalkers”) hunting down the accused and the convicted (“runners”). You take the world of John Carpenter’s They Live, push it up 100 years, and you get something like The Running Man. You can see it in most of Paul Verhoeven’s work, just on the tip of the horizon. Hey, I’d buy that for a dollar.

Stephen King give high praise to the upcoming film

Stephen King, the original author of The Running Man, has given high praise to the upcoming film adaptation.

The Running Man follows the story of Ben Richards (played by Glen Powell), an unemployed family man who enters a global survival program where he must endure 30 days of being hunted by brutal pursuers in exchange for a massive cash prize. Attention is now focused on the special points of praise that Stephen King, author of the original novel, personally shared.

After watching the film, King remarked, “It’s fantastic. It feels like a modern-day Die Hard—a thrilling ride!” raising expectations for the new adaptation. In a conversation with director Edgar Wright, he continued, “I’m very satisfied with the film. Everything fits together very naturally,” and added, “This movie has a sparkle reminiscent of Die Hard,” expressing strong confidence in the project.

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