{"id":2264758,"date":"2026-02-03T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2264758"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:47:37","slug":"jason-statham-thriller-shelter-launches-at-no-1-in-the-middle-east-making-him-most-bankable-action-star-in-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jason-statham-thriller-shelter-launches-at-no-1-in-the-middle-east-making-him-most-bankable-action-star-in-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Statham Thriller \u2018Shelter\u2019 Launches at No. 1 in the Middle East, Making Him \u2018Most Bankable Action Star\u2019 in the Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005458\/\">Jason Statham<\/a> action-thriller \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32357218\/\">Shelter<\/a>\u201d has conquered the top box office slot in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region, scoring a $2.2 million opening frame via indie distributor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0238173\/\">Front Row Filmed Entertainment<\/a> and its partner the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0460797\/\">Kuwait National Cinema Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The opening weekend Mena result for the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0006846\/\">Ric Roman Waugh<\/a>-directed \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32357218\/\">Shelter<\/a>\u201d \u2014 in which Statham plays a reclusive former <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0357968\/\">M16<\/a> agent hiding out on a Scottish island who is forced to protect himself and a teenage girl from assassins \u2014 has outperformed the film\u2019s first frame in several key international markets. It bested China ($2.1 million), the U.K. ($1.3 million) and scored roughly 40% of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32357218\/\">Shelter<\/a>\u2019s\u201d estimated $5.5 million U.S. opening result.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia was the top Mena territory for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32357218\/\">Shelter<\/a>.\u201d The film scored 34.5% of the kingdom\u2019s total admissions and 38% of total box office revenue, meaning almost one in three Saudi moviegoers chose the film. In its first weekend, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32357218\/\">Shelter<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Statham action-thriller \u201cShelter\u201d has conquered the top box office slot in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region, scoring a $2.2 million opening frame via indie distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment and its partner the Kuwait National Cinema Company. The opening weekend Mena result for the Ric Roman Waugh-directed \u201cShelter\u201d \u2014 in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2264758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jason-Statham-Thriller-\u2018Shelter-Launches-at-No-1-in-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264758","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=2264758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264760,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264758\/revisions\/2264760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}