The Beekeeper is setting Jason Statham up for a huge box office redemption. The new movie, which was directed by Suicide Squad‘s David Ayer, follows Adam Clay (Statham), a beekeeper who is a former member of an elite team known as the Beekeepers. When a phishing scam leads to the death by suicide of his friend and neighbor Eloise Parker (Phylicia Rashad), Clay embarks on a violent rampage to exact revenge on the corrupt tech company behind the scam, which turns out to be part of a much larger conspiracy.
Per Deadline, the The Beekeeper release is projected to earn an opening weekend of $16.8 million at the domestic box office. It is also on its way to a 4-day domestic total of $19.2 million over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend. These totals mean that the movie will have already outgrossed Statham’s previous action outing, the 2023 sequel Expend4bles, which earned a total domestic haul of $16.7 million, in just one weekend.
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The Beekeeper
The Beekeeper is a 2024 action-thriller film by director David Ayer. Jason Statham stars as “Mr. Clay,” a former member of a secret organization known as the “Beekeepers,” who steps back into the field after a close friend is wronged in a phishing scam. To set things right, Mr. Clay will wage a violent war as he discovers that the truth behind the scammers may be more sinister than he realized.
- Release Date
- January 12, 2024
- Director
- David Ayer
- Cast
- Jason Statham , Emmy Raver-Lampman , Josh Hutcherson , Bobby Naderi , Minnie Driver , Phylicia Rashad , Jeremy Irons
- Rating
- R
- Genres
- Action , Thriller
- Writers
- Kurt Wimmer
- Studio(s)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , MiraMax , Cedar Park Studios , Punch Palace Productions
- Distributor(s)
- Amazon MGM Studios
