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It has been four days since Glen Powell\u2019s The Running Man hit theaters, but the film may already be on the road to becoming a box office flop. This could prove to be a setback in Powell\u2019s apparent ambition to become the \u201cnext Tom Cruise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glen Powell\u2019s The Running Man has not performed as expected at the box office. It has also cast doubt on Powell\u2019s ability to become Tom Cruise\u2019s box office successor. The lukewarm box office response comes after the 37-year-old actor was fresh off the success of Top Gun: Maverick with Cruise, Anyone but You, and Twisters.<\/p>\n
According to The Daily Mail<\/a>, Hollywood had high hopes for Powell and Running Man director Edgar Wright\u2019s partnership to connect with audiences. However, in the film\u2019s opening weekend, it collected just $17 million domestically, with Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t outperforming The Running Man with a surprising $21.3 million.<\/p>\n An insider revealed to The Daily Mail that the flop could derail Powell\u2019s road to action stardom. One insider shared, \u201cThis movie was a major test. His first huge mega-budget film, where he\u2019s the marquee name. Hollywood is trying to position him as the next Tom Cruise, but this is a major global fail.\u201d<\/p>\n Another insider chipped in and revealed that Powell has put the flop behind him. The insider stated, \u201cGlen has been working for a long time, and his star rising is a long time coming, and to be the next big star or the next Tom Cruise doesn\u2019t happen overnight, or at all.\u201d<\/p>\n Furthermore, the insider shared that Powell was optimistic that it was going to be an \u201cenormous hit.\u201d However, now that it is struggling at the box office, he\u2019s looking to move on to his next project. Inside sources have also said that they believe Powell\u2019s overvisibility killed The Running Man\u2019s box office prospects.<\/p>\n The source added, \u201cAudiences still like Glen, but some of the blame should be put on people watching him from home, with him being on SNL this past weekend and also having his show Chad Powers out so that you can watch on your couch.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Hollywood insiders see this as a mere bump in Glen Powell\u2019s journey to action stardom. It is no secret that Powell idolises Tom Cruise, who also attended the premiere of the film recently. Cruise has had a few box office flops along the way, and yet he is one of the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Anwaya Mane on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Glen Powell Might Struggle To Be \u2018Next Tom Cruise\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been four days since Glen Powell\u2019s The Running Man hit theaters, but the film may already be on the road to becoming a box office flop. This could prove to be a setback in Powell\u2019s apparent ambition to become the \u201cnext Tom Cruise.\u201d Glen Powell\u2019s box office failure might cause a problem Glen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2166384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[34204,310317,33293],"class_list":["post-2166383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-box-office","tag-glen-powell","tag-tom-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Glen-Powell-Might-Struggle-To-Be-\u2018Next-Tom-Cruise.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166385,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166383\/revisions\/2166385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}