Jason Statham’s New Motion Film Earns His Worst Field Workplace Debut In 18 Years

Audiences are usually not looking for Shelter.

2026’s Shelter, which debuted on January 30, is a brand new motion thriller from Snitch director Ric Roman Waugh. The film stars motion icon Jason Statham as former murderer Michael Mason, who protects an harmless lady from the crossfire when he’s focused by his outdated company. The film’s launch comes within the wake of a number of profitable non-franchise Statham motion films, specifically 2024’s The Beekeeper and 2025’s A Working Man.

Per The Numbers, as of Sunday morning, Shelter is projected to earn a 3-day debut complete of $5.505 million on the home field workplace. It’s at present in a neck-and-neck race for No. 5 on the home chart with Avatar: Fireplace and Ash, which is in its seventh weekend.

Despite the fact that its 3-day gross might fluctuate barely by the tip of Sunday, it’s securely set to earn Jason Statham his worst vast launch home debut since 2008, when the fantasy online game adaptation Within the Identify of the King debuted in 1,632 theaters with a gross of $3 million. As a result of solely one in all his earlier vast debuts grossed beneath $5 million, Shelter is now Statham’s third-worst vast debut of all time.

Beneath, see a breakdown of Statham’s 5 worst vast debuts ever and the way these films finally carried out worldwide:

It finally stays to be seen how excessive Shelter can climb by the tip of its run on the field workplace. Nevertheless, the brand new Jason Statham motion film comes with a reported funds of $50 million, which may very well be an enormous obstacle. As a result of films usually must earn again two and a half instances their budgets in theaters, this might probably place its estimated break-even level as excessive as $125 million.

It’s extremely unlikely to hit that purpose, particularly since it’s at present unsure if it is going to even earn its uncooked funds again by incomes $50 million worldwide. Whereas it’s doable that Shelter might accomplish that, precedent means that it may very well be troublesome. Of the 14 Jason Statham films that had vast debuts beneath $10 million, solely six grossed greater than $50 million worldwide.

Nevertheless, it’s doable that Shelter‘s underperforming home debut may very well be a aspect impact of the harmful snowstorm that has wracked a lot of america. The film is performing nicely with the audiences which have seen it to date (incomes an 89% Popcornmeter rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ CinemaScore), which might enable it to construct phrase of mouth over time.

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