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Neal McDonough Is Officially the King of Paramount+

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A surprise new movie has overtaken a handful of hits to top the domestic Paramount+ viewership chart. The movie in question was released theatrically in 2024, emerging as a quiet box-office hit. It stars two actors from Taylor Sheridan‘s troupe — Neal McDonough and Dawn Olivieri — and takes place in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. McDonough appeared in Sheridan’s Yellowstone and Tulsa King, while Olivieri was a part of the sprawling Yellowstone cast as well, in addition to her roles in The Madison, 1883 and Lioness. The movie was distributed domestically by the faith-based outfit Angel Studios, which also released McDonough’s The Last Rodeo to critical and commercial success.

The Last Rodeo premiered in 2025, grossing more than $15 million at the box office against a reported budget of $8 million. It now holds a 70% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, in addition to scoring an A grade from audiences on CinemaScore. Faith-based movies typically draw strong audience scores, and McDonough’s 2024 release was no different. It now holds a 71% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which is much higher than its 43% critics’ score on the platform. According to FlixPatrol, it emerged as the number-one movie this week on Paramount+, the home of Sheridan’s blockbuster body of work.

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Which Taylor Sheridan
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Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown

Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.

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Where does your power come from?
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Yellowstone

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Tulsa King

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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.

You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.

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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.

You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.

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Neal McDonough Is the King of Paramount+

We’re talking about the movie Homestead, a post-apocalyptic drama in which a group of survivors band together in a community run by an eccentric doomsday prepper. The film’s Rotten Tomatoes consensus reads, “Homestead is a well-intentioned post-apocalyptic fable whose narrative ambitions can’t overcome its ham-handed moralizing, undercooked story, and subpar execution.” In its theatrical run, Homestead grossed $20 million against a reported budget of $8 million. McDonough has cultivated a loyal following over the years, in part due to roles in Sheridan’s series and hits such as Justified, Arrow, and the widely watched network series 9-1-1: Lone Star.

Homestead beat out holdover hits such as Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Top Gun: Maverick, and Machine Gun Preacher to claim the number one spot on Paramount+. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.


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Release Date

December 20, 2024

Runtime
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111 minutes

Director

Ben Smallbone

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