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🎬 Glen Powell’s New Film: The Running Man

Glen Powell stars in The Running Man, a dystopian action thriller film set for release in theaters on November 14, 2025.

  • Plot: The film is based on the 1982 novel by Stephen King (originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman). Set in a near-future society, it centers on a deadly reality show where contestants, or “Runners,” must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins. Powell plays the lead, Ben Richards, a working-class father who enters the game to afford medicine for his sick daughter.
  • Director: Edgar Wright (known for Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver)
  • Key Cast Members (mentioned in the article/search results): Glen Powell, Colman Domingo (plays the show’s host, “Bobby T”), Lee Pace (plays a hunter, Evan McCone), Emilia Jones, Josh Brolin (plays the show’s producer, Dan Killian), and Michael Cera.
  • Note: This 2025 film is the second adaptation of King’s novel, following the 1987 film that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

✈️ Top Gun: Maverick Box Office

 

The article highlights the massive financial success of Top Gun: Maverick (2022), in which both Cruise and Powell starred.

Metric Concrete Number
Global Box Office Gross Nearly $1.5 billion (The search results cite a worldwide gross of $1,495,696,292 or $1,452,163,362, depending on the source)
United States Gross Rank The film became the fifth-highest-grossing movie of all time in the United States. (Its domestic gross is cited as $718,732,821).

 

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