The Gray Man
Thriller & Suspense Netflix PG-13 2h 9m Released Jul 15, 2022 Discussed 2023–2024
Worldwide total
$451,178
Production budget
$200.0M
0.0× worldwide
RT critics
45%
RT audience
90%
+45 vs critics
Metacritic
49
Where it turns up
Friday, August 11, 2023 Second weekend of August 2023
In the note
If Netflix reported viewership numbers the same way we get box office, would this weekend’s tentpole release Heart of Stone get the same treatment if the numbers were short of Grey Man or Expendables 2? Of course they would, and that's the beauty of the streamers have approached this; their attitude seems to be 'the glass is mostly always half empty from you idiots in the press so we’re just going to keep everything a secret'. But now, here come the Actors and Writers asking for residuals, and to accomplish that, the data wall has to come down and that’s something that’s not going to happen easily.
Friday, November 22, 2024 Glicked weekend 2024
In the note
But on Saturday, two things happened; we had this film modeled up 35% or 40% from the pure Friday and it went up almost 100% on Saturday, so clearly the fight had an effect. The 2nd thing that happened on Saturday was a bunch of really nervous NFL executives being hastily called to 345 Park Ave, muttering to themselves 'were we suckers for taking their word that they can do this, we trusted the studio that made Grey Man......we should have just expanded the Amazon deal'.