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Dwayne Johnson is not a star that anyone would miss walking down the street, and that is not just because of his wide-as-a-house, tall-as-a-mountain frame. The man, the myth, the legend that is “The Rock” has not only been a fixture of the wrestling ring for decades, but has also been a huge presence on cinema screens for over 25 years. But when asked if he gets tired of the fame…it seems The Rock is still very invested in letting everyone smell what is simmering in his pot.

Johnson is as busy as he has ever been, with a mix of movies and WWE appearances planned for this year, the larger-than-life star is not about to take a back seat. This means that there is little chance of him ever being able to lead a quiet life away from the public eye, but according to the man himself, that is perfectly fine.

Red One brings out several big names to spread some Christmas cheer to audiences during the holiday season with a relatively unique premise. Marvel Cinematic Universe star Chris Evans is one of those names, with co-star Dwayne Johnson praising the sense of humor he brought to the film.

Speaking with People during Red One's recent world premiere in Berlin, Johnson hailed Evans for his comedy chops in the action-packed film, suggesting they played off each other well while on set. According to the wrestler-turned-actor, Evans made it difficult for him to keep a straight face throughout production. "'Cause I'm a pro," he said initially before admitting, "No, so many times I laughed. I am notorious for ruining takes. I laugh; it's just what happens." Johnson added, "I thought earlier that maybe me and Chris might have some good chemistry. So did he. [And] we did."

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Fans of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson have something exciting to look forward to this week. The actor's newest film, Red One, is imminently making its debut on streaming.

As announced by Amazon, Red One will officially become available for streaming on Prime Video on Dec. 12. The announcement comes as the movie continues its run in theaters ahead of the Christmas holiday. While the option remains there for filmgoers to check out the holiday action film on the big screen, putting Red One on Prime Video just ahead of Christmas will allow others at home to enjoy the new big-budget project featuring The Rock while looking for new holiday movies to watch this year.

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Red One has two more achievements to stuff in its stockings this holiday season. However, the Dwayne Johnson-led Christmas blockbuster looks even more unlikely to make back its hefty budget.

Via Collider, Red One made $12.8 million in North American cinemas during Thanksgiving weekend, bringing its domestic total to $76 million. Combine that tally with the $72 million Red One has earned in overseas territories, and the action comedy now stands at $148 million globally, bringing it closer to the $150 million mark. Along with that feat, Red One is now one of the top 25 highest-grossing movies of 2024, nipping The Beekeeper, the film led by Johnson's Hobbs & Shaw co-star Jason Statham, to make the list. These achievements add to a recent career box-office mark Johnson reached thanks to the film.

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Red One made its debut quite early this Christmas season, premiering in theaters worldwide on November 15, 2024. However, the early release is justified, given that the film was initially set to release in December 2023 and was delayed due to the Saf-aftra strikes. The film joins a genre which has been gaining increasing popularity in recent times; the Christmas action film genre.

The film puts its own creative spin on the genre, with the narrative of Red One following a rescue mission after Father Christmas is kidnapped by a fearsome winter witch who is also able to shape-shift. Giving the Christmas film an almost CIA-like quality, Red One has organizations with the most interesting acronyms, code words, high-tech equipment and talented hackers. Supported by a star-studded cast, including Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu and J. K. Simmon, Red One offers all that you can expect from a Christmas action film.

Before he played a beefed-up Santa in the new Christmas movie Red One, J.K. Simmons has revealed that he played jolly old Saint Nick many years ago in a shopping mall. The beloved actor has played many memorable roles, most notably that of Spider-Mans J. Jonah Jameson in several Marvel movies, but his latest appearance alongside Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans is not the first time he has experienced the role of Santa Claus.

While many fans will be aware that he previously voiced the one-night-a-year worker (nice job if you can get it) in the animated movie Klaus, the actor revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly that he has a much older affinity with Father Christmas from his day as a mall Santa, although he was possibly not the best fit for the wholesome role. He explained:

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Red One decks the box-office halls by achieving its first major milestone since its release earlier this month. However, the Dwayne Johnson-led Christmas movie may not receive many more gifts during its theatrical run as it faces stiff competition from new and upcoming blockbusters.

Via Collider, Red One is expected to cross the $100 million mark at the global box office on Nov. 22, with $55 million coming from overseas territories. The news is encouraging considering Red One endured tough sledding with an underwhelming opening weekend in North American cinemas, making $32.1 million over its first three days. The film's early tally also helped Johnson cross the $14 billion mark for his career as he searches for his first major commercial hit since Jumanji: The Next Level in 2019.

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Even as Red One continues collecting more coal than acclaim following its release, the Christmas film bears gifts for its leading star. The newly-released action comedy secures Dwayne Johnson a new career box-office milestone.

Per Collider, Red One has made $83.2 million at the global box office since its premiere, with $32 million coming domestically and the remainder from overseas markets. With that tally, Johnson is closing in on a cumulative box office tally of $14 billion worldwide for his movies. The wrestler-turned-actor has also become one of the 15 highest-grossing stars at the domestic box office, overtaking acting legends Eddie Murphy and Steve Carell to reach that mark.

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Bringing action, comedy and fantasy together, Amazon MGM Studio's Red One made its debut on November 15, 2024, in an early kick-off to the Christmas season. The film was initially set to release in December 2023 on Amazon Prime Videos but was delayed a year due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes. However, echoing the sentiment that every cloud has a silver lining, the delayed release date also meant that Red One was able to have a worldwide theatrical release.

With a star-studded cast that includes Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu and J. K. Simmons, Red One weaves a story which centers on the kidnapping of Santa Claus. Johnson's Callum Drift, the head of the North Poles Enforcement...

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November 2024 is set to be a big month for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, but not in the way that he likely expected. Within the span of two weeks, Dwayne Johnson will be the star of two feature films aimed at the holiday crowd. The first is the action-comedy Christmas movie Red One, where Johnson plays the head of North Pole security, who teams up with a hacker, played by Chris Evans, to save a kidnapped Santa Claus. The second is Moana 2, where Johnson will reprise his role as the demi-god Maui from the 2016 hit film Moana.

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Red One has already earned some redemption from its dire initial reviews from critics. Starring Dwayne Johnson (Callum Drift) and Chris Evans (Jack O'Malley), the movie is an action flick that follows the kidnapping of Santa Claus (J. K. Simmons). It had an enormous $250 million budget and was released in theaters on November 15 for domestic audiences. Amazon MGM has not yet confirmed when Red One will head to streaming platforms.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the holiday movie has proven to be extremely divisive. It debuted with a Rotten 32% Tomatometer score from critics. Top critics were even more negative, assigning just a 25% score. The audience, however, has been kinder. It currently sits at an 88% Popcornmeter score, which is enough to earn a Hot designation. It has over 100 reviews from critics and over 500 verified ratings from general viewers at the time of writing.

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Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans' Christmas action movie underwent a few changes regarding the options for where to watch Red One. The combination of the two major movie stars was enough to get Amazon MGM to back the original action title that reunited The Rock with his Jumanji franchise director, Jake Kasdan. With Dwayne Johnson's box office track record and Chris Evans' notoriety after playing Captain America, the movie became a promising opportunity for them to unite and deliver either a major box office or streaming hit - or possibly both - although that was before Red One's reviews.

Amazon MGM originally had planned for Red One to release in Christmas 2023, but the film ultimately was kept away from audiences until November 2024. The twist came with the studio deciding that the way audiences first get to see the movie will also be different once it arrives. This is because...

Red One, the biggest Christmas movie ever, arrives in theaters next week, and we have an exclusive first look at the 4Dx poster art for the Dwayne Johnson holiday epic.

To celebrate the multi-sensory cinema-going experience of 4Dx and what Amazon MGM Studios' Red One will deliver to audiences on November 15th, 4Dx partnered with our pal BossLogic to craft this beautiful, Christmas-colored one-sheet.

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Embracing a red and green color scheme, BossLogic's latest work highlights Red One's star-studded cast and roster of outlandish characters that surround Santa Claus and his trusty Reindeer, in a design that screams "action!"

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It might not be the holidays yet, but Amazon MGM want you to hang up your stockings early for Red One, the high-concept caper starring Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, and Jk Simmons. Johnson plays the role he was born for: a hulking head of security to Simmons' Santa Claus, who is disillusioned with humanity's lack of goodness, and one day from retirement.

Like Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, which Johnson collaborated on with Red One director Jake Kasdan, the festive adventure aims for action comedy. When Santa is kidnapped, Johnson's inexplicably immortal Callum Drift teams up with Level 4 Naughty Lister Jack O'Malley (Evans), who is a master thief, hacker, and somehow has had the superpower of being able to find people or things since childhood. Don't worry, that's not really important enough to be explained beyond it helping the plot lurch forward.

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Baywatch is one of the most famous TV shows of all time and has since reached cult classic status. In 2017, the TV show was turned into a film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Zac Efron, and it was one of Johnson's most disappointing projects.

However, Baywatch has just hit Netflix and found new success on the streaming service, climbing up to No. 8 on the global charts for the week of Oct. 28 to Nov. 3. The film was one of the three releases this week after the slasher Time Cut and Martha Stewart's documentary Martha, and hit the eighth spot with 4.1 million views, or 7.9 hours viewed. Although Johnson's 2017 comedy action film found new success on streaming, it was not popular with the critics.

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What if Santa Claus wasn't rotund and tinkering with toys in a quaint North Pole, but an absolutely jacked presidential figure running a glimmering, high-tech frozen metropolis? Red One offers a surprisingly clever take on Christmas mythology. The big-budget action-comedy delivers the requisite popcorn entertainment with visual splendor, but also succeeds in building its own new universe with truly memorable characters. Actors Dwayne Johnson and a hilarious Chris Evans play well off each other when the narrative runs sluggish during overextended scenes.

We're first introduced to a young Jack O'Malley (Wyatt Hunt) at his family's Christmas party. He's the product of a broken home, already has a sarcastic disposition, and doesn't believe in Santa Claus. He brands the other kids chumps for believing such a ridiculous fable. How can one guy travel around the world in one night and sneak into billions of homes undetected with a reindeer-powered sled? What...

The upcoming Christmas action comedy, Red One, promises a rocky ride for Santa Claus and several shenanigans involving Dwayne Johnson's main character. According to director Jake Kasdan, the Amazon MGM Studios pic isn't your typical movie for the holiday season, insisting the pic is more "kick-ass" than most.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Kasdan expressed his belief that Red One stands out more than other Christmas movies because he and his creative team made it an "epic" film and "a little more kick-ass" than previous entries. Kasdan, who shared his "love" for Christmas movies, thinks Red One contains many elements that make it edgy, yet wholesome.

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Your browser does not support the video tag. Cradle's upcoming adaptation for the screen counts on a talented team and Will Wight's involvement. Notable actors such as Phil Lamarr and Kari Wahlgren bring life to the characters in the animation. The process of bringing Cradle from page to screen involves Kickstarter to keep fans involved and engaged.

After a successful Kickstarter campaign by Hidden Gnome Publishing and Lex+Otis Animation Studio, Cradle is being adapted for the screen, and the fledgling project celebrated its fortune at San Diego Comic-Con. The animation is based on Will Wight's best-selling fantasy novels and centers around Lindon, who attempts to prevent the apocalypse by mastering magical martial arts. Unsouled is the first book of twelve and currently has 4.13 stars, 45,704 ratings, and 2,735 reviews on Goodreads.

Cradle is backed by an incredibly talented team of creatives, with Wight himself heavily involved in the project. Well-renowned actors...

Fears of a future where artificial intelligence overpowers flesh-and-blood humans have always been a paramount tenet of sci-fi storytelling. And when these sentient robots closely resemble human behavior and exterior appearance (as in “Blade Runner” or “AI Artificial Intelligence”), then the conundrum of whether they should be granted human dignity rather than being seen as disposable presents itself. But the closer that such a hypothetical reality feels to our present — with generative AI threatening artistic creation, for example — the less likely it seems we will ever feel compassion for these entities.

French director Jérémie Périn’s cyberpunk mystery “Mars Express” manages to further complicate our sentiments with its dense yet satisfying world-building. A gripping, heady and refreshing 2D animated take on the perils of man and machine coexisting, Périn’s first feature as a director inserts the necessary exposition in a mostly natural manner so we incrementally become aware of how this reality functions.

Like so many cyberpunk movies before it, Jérémie Périn’s ultra-cool and dazzlingly animated “Mars Express” is sustained by the vertigo between the boundlessness of computer technology and the banality of what people do with it. What separates this accomplished French “Ghost in the Shell” homage from its most obvious touchstone — and from several other detective stories in which a police team of people and androids investigate what it means to be human — is the film’s determination to dismantle that dynamic.

Much less nakedly philosophical than anything Mamoru Oshii has ever made, “Mars Express” is nevertheless fascinated by the future that artificial intelligence might choose for itself if it were unshackled from the limits of our mortal imaginations (and from the anxieties that come along with them). Périn is humble enough to only half-guess at an answer, but his steadfast conviction that humans and robots could mutually inhibit the...

This article contains spoilers for "X-Men '97."

The sixth and latest episode of "X-Men '97" was titled "Lifedeath – Part 2." Sure enough, it continued the story of Storm and Forge (adapting a classic "X-Men" comic), culminating with Ororo regaining her mutant gifts as she pounds her fears (including claustrophobia and a demon owl) into submission. Gaining her Og Dave Cockrum-designed costume and white locks to show for it, Storm (once more Mistress of the Elements) called down a lightning strike seen from orbit and soared like Superman. But that wasn't all.

Like the previous "Lifedeath," this episode was bifurcated with an unrelated story — a story set a whole galaxy away. The X-Men have told the world that their founder and mentor Charles "Professor X" Xavier is dead, assassinated by anti-mutant extremist Henry Gyrich. That's why Magneto, Charles' heir, has taken his best frenemy's place as team leader (and rekindled his...