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Glen Powell in “The Running Man.” Paramount Pictures/Ross Ferguson Glen Powell’s version of Stephen King’s The Running Man took a huge dive in business in its second weekend at the domestic box office. Directed by Edgar Wright, The Running Man is the second adaptation of Stephen King’s classic dystopian novel, which was first published under the author’s pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982. The first adaptation of The Running Man, released in 1987, starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as the story’s protagonist, Ben Richards, while Family Feud talk show icon Richard Dawson played Richard’s nefarious nemesis Dan Killian. Forbes‘Wicked: For Good’ Soars With $150 Million Opening At Weekend Box OfficeBy Tim Lammers In the new version, Powell plays Richards, a man struggling to find a way to save his ailing daughter in a dystopian future America. Desperate to earn money for his daughter’s medical treatment, Richards reluctantly joins the sadistic TV game show The Running Man to win 1 billion new dollars, which is the country’s new currency. The catch is, he must elude elite assassins out in public for 30 days to win the cash. Josh Brolin plays Killian in the new big-screen adaptation of the King tale. Rated R, Paramount Pictures’ The Running Man opened in theaters on Nov. 14 and finished at No. 2 at the domestic box office with $16.4 million in its first weekend frame from 3,534 theaters. The film opened up against Lionsgate’s heist thriller Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, which took the No. 1 spot in its debut weekend with $21 million in ticket sales from 3,403 North American theaters. ForbesNew ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Website Shows Theaters Playing New ‘Knives Out’ MovieBy Tim Lammers The Running Man fared much worse in its second weekend at the theaters, earning an estimated $5.8 million from…

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