Guy Ritchie’s next action thriller In the Grey won’t be coming out on Jan. 17, 2025 as previously scheduled as the movie isn’t finished. Lionsgate has taken the title off the calendar for the time being. The trailer debuted for exhibitors back at CinemaCon where the movie received its title.
Pic reteams Ritche with Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal. Eiza González, also stars. In the Grey follows two extraction specialists who must designate a route of escape for a senior female negotiator.
Ritchie wrote, directs and produces. Other producers are Ivan Atkinson and John Friedberg.
Ritchie released via Lionsgate this past spring the Cavill WWII movie, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare which made $20.5M domestic, $27M WW. Lionsgate also had the Ritchie directed Jason Statham-Aubrey Plaza action title, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, which made $6.5M stateside and close to $49M worldwide.
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Last year, Ritchie released The Covenant, a more serious war film from his guns a blazing action comedies, which starred Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim respectively as a U.S. Army Green Beret Master Sergeant and his Afghan interpreter, fighting the Taliban. The movie made $22M worldwide.
Left on MLK weekend next year is Universal/Blumhouse’s Wolfman, Sony’s Paddington in Peru, and Paramount’s expansion of their awards season thriller, September 5.
Of late, Lionsgate has a small little hit in Kingdom Story’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever which has grossed $22M in its first two weeks on a $10M production cost.
Cavill is also starring in the reboot of Highlander at Lionsgate which John Wick director Chad Stahelski is directing.