Jason Statham’s ‘A Working Man’ Puts ‘Snow White’ to Sleep at the Box Office
Jason Statham is used to kicking a** on-screen. This weekend, he kicked it at the box office, too.
A Working Man, Statham’s newest film, surprised box office prognosticators during its opening weekend by earning an impressive $15.2 million domestically in 3,262 theaters, which was ahead of projections.
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The film—about a black ops agent-turned-construction worker who gets mixed up with Russian sex traffickers (as one does)—reunites Statham with his The Beekeeper (2024) director David Ayer. Ayer co-wrote the Working Man script with Sylvester Stallone, another longtime Statham collaborator; the two worked together on The Expendables franchise and the action-thriller Homefront (2013), which Stallone penned.
The bigger story, however, is the box office’s runner-up: Disney’s live-action Snow White. In its second week in theaters, the $370 million flick managed to squeeze just $14.2 million out of U.S. moviegoers’ pockets, marking a sharp week-over-week drop of 66 percent. It’s a number that will surely terrify Disney executives who seem to be watching one of their tentpole films bomb in real time.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, however, “Disney isn’t waving the white flag of defeat, and says its movie could still avoid biting the poison apple because of rolling spring breaks over the next few weeks and little competition in terms of films targeting girls and females.”
Only time will tell if the studio’s hope becomes a reality. The weekend’s box office was rounded out by The Chosen: The Last Supper (Part One), a Christian historical epic that came in third place with $11.5 million from 2,234 theaters; The Woman in the Yard, Jaume Collet-Serra’s new horror film, earned $9.5 million from 3,050 theaters to win fourth place; and the horror-comedy Death of a Unicorn, starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd, came in fifth with a fairly disappointing $5.6 million from 2,842 cinemas.