After struggling hefty drops in income over the past two weeks, the sci-fi movie Mercy is trying to wind up its theatrical run having fallen drastically in need of expectations. The movie is eying solely round $1 million this weekend, whereas the home market is dominated by the divisive new movie Wuthering Heights. In contrast to that romance melodrama, which has acquired polarized critiques, Mercy drew a reasonably easy consensus from critics and audiences: they weren’t too impressed. The film nonetheless hasn’t recouped its reported $60 million price range, which is a serious blow for stars Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, whose observe data within the sci-fi style are in any other case reasonably spectacular. Mercy will quickly be launched on the PVOD market, the place it could actually anticipate finding its true viewers. Earlier than that, nevertheless, it could actually have fun having hit a brand new worldwide field workplace milestone.
Mercy was directed by Timur Bekmambetov, who is taken into account a pioneer of the “screenlife” format — during which total films unfold on digital screens. He beforehand labored with Pratt on the hit motion movie Wanted, which was launched in 2008. Again then, Pratt wasn’t the star he has since turn into. He is now among the many highest-grossing main males in historical past, having headlined the Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy trilogies. He additionally has a number of hit animated films to his identify. Pratt not too long ago discovered himself in a field workplace face-off towards fellow MCU star Chris Evans. Whereas each often occupy the higher tiers of the field workplace, they have been competing within the decrease tiers this time, with Mercy having overtaken considered one of Evans’ least-remembered sci-fi films.
Here is the Forgotten Chris Evans Sci-Fi Film that ‘Mercy’ Has Overtaken
With $50 million on the worldwide field workplace thus far, Mercy has overtaken the $49 million lifetime haul of Evans’ 2009 film Push. Directed by Paul McGuigan, Push featured the Captain America star as a person who should shield a younger lady from villains whereas studying to harness his telekinetic powers. Produced on a reported price range of $38 million, Push fell in need of its estimated break-even level. However it wasn’t as costly as Mercy, which value a reported $60 million to provide. Each films, nevertheless, maintain related scores on the aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes; Mercy is at 24% and Push at 23%. You’ll be able to watch Mercy in theaters. Keep tuned to Collider for extra updates.
- Launch Date
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January 19, 2026
- Runtime
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100 minutes
- Director
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Timur Bekmambetov
- Writers
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Marco van Belle
- Producers
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Charles Roven, Majd Nassif, Robert Amidon, Timur Bekmambetov
