Stephen King’s The Lengthy Stroll Passes The Shining At The World Field Workplace After Hitting $50M

The Lengthy Stroll has strolled previous some of the revered horror films from Stephen King – or from anybody – on the world field workplace, as the 2025 King adaptation has formally grossed greater than The Shining.

Primarily based on Field Workplace Mojo‘s most up-to-date numbers for The Lengthy Stroll, the movie has grossed $50.81 million worldwide as of October 13. Meaning within the month-plus because the movie’s September 12 launch date, The Lengthy Stroll has made more cash than The Shining did in its complete run; the 1980 basic introduced in $47.97 million.

As of proper now, The Lengthy Stroll now sits because the sixteenth highest-grossing movie based mostly on Stephen King’s work. Whereas a transfer into the highest 10 appears unlikely based mostly on the movie’s current returns – and the truth that a VOD launch date has been introduced – there’s nonetheless an opportunity it might transfer up into the highest 15, the spot presently occupied by Stand By Me.

The Lengthy Stroll stars Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson as two of fifty younger males in a dystopian US that participate in a contest the place the one rule is to stroll till you may’t stroll anymore, at which level you are killed. The winner is the final man strolling. Francis Lawrence directs from a script by JT Mollner.

Evaluations for The Lengthy Stroll have been robust. Along with ScreenRant‘s The Lengthy Stroll evaluation calling it a “terrific, entertaining movie with some attention-grabbing issues to say,” the film is “Licensed Contemporary” on Rotten Tomatoes with an 87% rating.

That makes it the best rated of three Stephen King diversifications launched in 2025; the opposite two being The Monkey and The Lifetime of Chuck. Nonetheless, of these three, The Monkey is definitely the highest-grossing King adaptation up to now, pulling in $68.87 million and simply lacking out on the all-time prime 10 field workplace for a King-based film.

There may be yet another Stephen King adaptation left in 2025 that might problem these numbers – the Glen Powell-led The Operating Man. Directed by Edgar Wright and with a star-studded forged, The Operating Man is definitely the most important King adaptation of the yr, and is presently projecting a $40-$50 million opening weekend (per Boxoffice Professional). It additionally obtained a glowing evaluation from King forward of its launch.

Previous to that, The Lengthy Stroll continues to be enjoying solely in film theaters till its VOD debut on October 21.