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Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Flight Risk’ Hits Number One At Box Office

Director Mel Gibson’s latest film, “Flight Risk,” soared to number one at the box office over the weekend, bringing in $12 million in total sales.

January is typically a slow month for new releases, which explains why Gibson’s new film was able to top the list even with relatively low earnings. “Flight Risk” is a thriller starring Mark Wahlberg as a pilot flying an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) and fugitive (Topher Grace) across Alaska. It was released by Lionsgate on Friday.

The live-action Disney film “Mufasa” came in second place at $8.7 million, per Deadline, while the comedy “One of Them Days” came in third with $8 million. The Oscar-nominated, three-and-a-half-hour-long drama “The Brutalist” also had its wide release despite the film’s director saying it had been called “un-distributable.” That movie brought in $6 million.

“Flight Risk” has a 25% critic score and a 63% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. 

“If you like Mark [Wahlberg] as an actor, this movie was good … he played the part well. Overall it was entertaining,” one audience reviewer said.

“Liked the drama, suspense and storyline,” another verified Rotten Tomatoes audience reviewer wrote.

Gibson’s last big project was “Hacksaw Ridge” in 2016. He’s currently working on the highly anticipated sequel to “The Passion of the Christ” (2004) and was recently named an “ambassador to Hollywood” a few days before Donald Trump’s inauguration.

“It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”

The director gave an update on progress being made on the “Passion” sequel earlier this month, which is slated to begin filming next year.

Gibson called the film “an acid trip” and “very ambitious.”

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