Two weeks after Den of Thieves 2: Pantera started Lionsgate on a positive 2025 note after a disastrous 2024, the studio looks for Flight Risk to keep things looking up. Out January 24th, Mel Gibson directs the action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, Topher Grace, and Michelle Dockery.
Originally slated for October of last year, this marks Gibson’s first behind the camera exercise since 2016’s Best Picture nominee Hacksaw Ridge. He recently costarred with Wahlberg in 2022’s largely forgotten Father Stu.
Competing for a male audience with the NFL playoffs could be a tall order (as well as the general January doldrums at multiplexes). Another hurdle is that audiences may be used to seeing Wahlberg in direct to streaming fare with Spenser Confidential, Infinite and The Union being recent examples in the genre.
My guess is this gets to low double digits and maybe into the teens.
Flight Risk opening weekend prediction: $11.3 million
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