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Jason Statham’s ‘Shelter’ Tops ‘The Smashing Machine’ Worldwide but Stalls at the Box Office

The $50 million release remains well short of an estimated $125 million theatrical break-even.

Overview

  • Shelter has reached about $26.8 million worldwide, including roughly $10 million domestic and $16.8 million international, after a second North American weekend of approximately $2.45 million.
  • The film has pulled ahead of Dwayne Johnson’s The Smashing Machine globally, $26.8 million to $21.1 million, though Johnson’s film leads in North America as Shelter rides stronger overseas results.
  • Variety pegs Shelter’s production budget near $50 million, and standard box-office math implies a break-even near $125 million, leaving a sizable gap at its current pace.
  • Rotten Tomatoes shows a split with a 62% critics score against an 87% audience score, signaling stronger viewer approval than critical consensus.
  • Collider characterizes the run as underwhelming compared with Statham’s recent hits and notes it is a second recent commercial setback for director Ric Roman Waugh following Greenland 2.