Liam Neeson’s ‘Honest Thief’ Opens to $3.7 Million as ‘Tenet’ Crosses $50 Million at Box Office

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LOS ANGELES -- Liam Neeson’s thriller “Honest Thief” stole the top spot at the box office in yet another quiet weekend of moviegoing.The Open Roads Films movie brought in $3.7 million in North America the weekend of its U.S. debut.

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The numbers are in for Liam Neeson‘s new movie Honest Thief, amid the pandemic and a struggling movie theater business.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterLiam Neeson’s thriller “Honest Thief” limped to first place at the domestic box office, debuting at $3.7 million. Those ticket sales, among the lowest ever to land at No.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe sheer range of genres represented by this week’s new releases — from Liam Neeson thriller “Honest Thief” to romantic weepie “2 Hearts” — suggests that distributors of all kinds are doing their best to give audiences the kind of selection they enjoyed before the lockdown.Well, nearly all kinds of distributors.The major studios are still playing it safe and holding their tentpoles for a time when they can pack the megaplexes, although Paramount has stepped in

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorOpen Road’s Liam Neeson action movie The Honest Thief posted a notable first night during the pandemic of $225K in previews.Neeson’s action movies outside of Taken typically see largely double that or more than triple that in a healthy marketplace, i.e. last year’s Cold Pursuit posted $540K on its Thursday preview, The Commuter did $700K, and Run All Night grossed $455K on its first night, however, we need to keep in mind that the No.

Thrillers are the grimmest genre as far as new releases are concerned, a graveyard where signs of life are few and far between. So it’s a good thing we can count on Liam Neeson to periodically save the genre from extinction.

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Some movies feature a training montage in which the star is seen flexing his muscles or honing his firearm skills in preparation for a big battle. There's no such need for that in the latest Liam Neeson vehicle.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticHere’s the kind of what-were-they-thinking? moment that can throw you right out of a movie. Tom Carter (Liam Neeson), a bank robber extraordinaire, is about to reveal to Annie (Kate Walsh), the woman he’s in love with, that he isn’t the man she thought he was.

Liam Neeson, we've been told, has a particular set of skills. One of those skills apparently is picking some movies that stink.“Honest Thief,” co-written and directed by Mark Williams, is a predictable and slack affair, relying on eerie music, dark sets and smoke to create tension.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmIn a pandemic moment where The War With Grandpa gets headlines for topping the weekend box office with just $3.6 million, is it possible for films with stars and reasonable budgets to make a go of it while the two biggest theatrical markets, New York and Los Angeles, remain closed? Next to try will be Honest Thief, the Liam Neeson action film that opens Friday.

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