US EditionOne of 2025's Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies Is Coming to Streaming
Edgar Wright’s 2025 sci-fi film stars Glen Powell as a blacklisted laborer competing in a deadly game show for a $1 billion prize after mixed box office results.
- On Jan. 13, Paramount+ will begin streaming The Running Man in the U.S. and Canada, with international dates to be announced later.
- After premiering on Nov. 14 in theaters and IMAX, The Running Man opened with $16.5 million and grossed more than $69 million, falling short of its $110 million budget.
- Directed by Edgar Wright, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Bacall and produced with Simon Kinberg and Nira Park, The Running Man stars Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, and William H. Macy.
- Paramount is moving the film to streaming to recoup lost revenue, with critics calling it one of 2025's most underrated sci-fi movies as Paramount+ seeks more viewers.
- Ben Richards, portrayed by Glen Powell, is a blacklisted laborer who must survive 30 days in a televised manhunt organized by an authoritarian media conglomerate to win $1 billion.
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One of 2025's Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies Is Coming to Streaming
2025 had its fair share of box office disappointments, but one of the most surprising was Edgar Wright’s sci-fi movie The Running Man. Like the 1987 original film with Arnold Schwarzenegger, this massively entertaining remake adapts Stephen King’s classic 1982 dystopian novel of the same name. Set in the near future, The Running Man stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a working-class everyman who enters a deadly competition show to earn some cash…
Glen Powell’s ‘Running Man’ Sets Paramount+ Streaming Release Date
“The Running Man” races from the theaters and into the home video market, as the action comedy, starring Glen Powell, arrives on Paramount+ on Jan. 13. Directed by Edgar Wright, “The Running Man” was adapted from a Stephen King novel of the same name, originally published in 1982 under the author’s frequented pseudonym, Richard Bachman. […]
The Running Man Will Find its Real Audience on Streaming
After an underwhelming theatrical run and mixed reviews, Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel The Running Man hits streaming this week on Paramount+, where it’s likely to find a more forgiving audience. The satirical sci-fi action flick stars Glen Powell (Twisters) as Ben Richards, a struggling laborer who enters a deadly TV game show called The Running Man to help his wife and daughter out of poverty, only to discover that win…
Edgar Wright’s 'The Running Man' Hits Paramount+ Starting Tomorrow
The games begin on streaming tomorrow. Based on the 1982 novel by Stephen King, the dystopian action thriller The Running Man, starring Glen Powell (Top Gun, Twisters), will stream on Paramount+ beginning this week. In a near-future society, ‘The Running Man’ is the top-rated show on television—a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to…
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