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Jason Statham’s Latest Action Vehicle Is Struggling to Gain Box Office Traction
After what seemed like a major return to form in the last five years, Jason Statham‘s hot streak has been hit with its second setback. His new movie, Shelter, has been struggling at the box office despite having earned mostly positive reviews. This is difficult to explain, but it reflects the unpredictable nature of the movie business these days. While similar original genre movies starring Statham have done well in the recent past, Shelter was outright rejected by audiences. The movie still hasn’t recovered its reported $50 million budget theatrically, and seems poised to fall short of even Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, the star’s lowest-grossing film of the decade. During this decade, Statham has headlined both franchise films and original action vehicles — reviews have hardly come between him and box office success. It turns out that reviews don’t mean much when one of his movies underperforms, either.
Shelter isn’t just a setback for Statham, but is also the second underperformer in the span of a month for director Ric Roman Waugh. The filmmaker only recently saw the commercial failure of Greenland 2: The Migration, the Gerard Butler-led sci-fi sequel that grossed only around $20 million worldwide against a reported $90 million budget. Greenland 2‘s underperformance may partially be explained, since it will be released on digital in most markets outside North America. Shelter, however, was given a proper theatrical release. It’s now sitting at a 62% critics’ score and an 87% audience score on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Classing up an overdone premise with professional execution, Shelter is highly derivative of previous Jason Statham action vehicles but lean and mean enough to forgive the recycled tropes.”
Here’s How Much ‘Shelter’ Has Grossed So Far
The movie’s positive audience score sets it up for a solid performance on digital, but its box office run so far has to sting. The movie has grossed less than $10 million domestically — one-fifth of its reported budget — and only around $25 million worldwide. By comparison, Statham’s last two films — The Beekeeper and A Working Man — made around $160 million and $100 million worldwide, respectively. In the last half-decade, he has also delivered the hit film Wrath of Man, which made more than $100 million worldwide, and the action sequel Meg 2: The Trench, which grossed nearly $400 million globally.
You can watch Shelter in theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
- Release Date
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January 30, 2026
- Runtime
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107 minutes
- Director
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Ric Roman Waugh
- Writers
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Ward Parry
- Producers
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Greg Silverman, Jason Statham, Jon Berg, John Friedberg, Brendon Boyea