Rahul Malhotra is a news writer at Collider specialising in box office coverage, and Indian cinema. He has been contributing to Collider for 3 years.
The Big Picture While it hasn’t exactly set the domestic box office on fire despite its pre-release buzz and well-earned comparisons to the John Wick series, debutante director Dev Patel’s brutal action film Monkey Man continued its staggered global roll-out this weekend. Monkey Man grossed an estimated $4 million domestically, dropping a worrying 59% in its second weekend and pushing its stateside haul to just under $18 million.
Monkey Man's overseas box office haul now stands at $5 million, which takes its cumulative global haul to $22 million in 10 days of release. While this might not sound like much for the $30 million production, Universal reportedly picked it up for around $10 million after Netflix dropped it from its release calendar. It has been said that the film’s political themes were seen as potentially problematic for the streamer’s expansion plans in India, which is gearing up for elections this year.
Monkey Man subsequently caught the attention of star-producer Jordan Peele, who secured a theatrical release thanks to his long association with Universal and made sure that Patel’s ambitious action movie saw the light of day. Having established himself as a leading man in films of all genres — he broke out with the British teen drama Skins and followed it up with the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire — Patel has been hailed as a director to watch out for.
'Monkey Man' Still Hasn't Secured a Release in India Reviews have thankfully been kind, with Monkey Man sitting at a “fresh” 89% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Collider’s Perri Nemiroff praised the action scenes as “great” but described the story as “so-so.” A section of her review read, “Every frame of this film is crafted with purpose, coming across as one big celebration of culture, mythology, resolve, and the iconic action films that inspired Patel.
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