Box Office: Liam Neeson’s ‘The Marksman’ Ends ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Reign

If time is a flat circle, then it’s only fitting that a second under-the-radar Liam Neeson movie is ruling over the U.S.

box office during the pandemic.

Months after his action thriller “Honest Thief” led domestic charts, another Neeson (you guessed it!) action thriller “The Marksman” has debuted at No.

1 with $3.2 million in ticket sales.Robert Lorenz directed “The Marksman,” about a rancher and retired Marine living in Arizona who helps a young boy escape a Mexican drug cartel.

The film, which premiered in 1,975 locations, should rake in $3.7 million through the Martin Luther King holiday on Monday.

Open Road, the distributor behind “The Marksman,” also backed “Honest Thief.” That film bowed to $3.7 million last October and ended its theatrical run with $14 million in the U.S.

and $28 million globally.“The Marksman” joins the company of “Honest Thief” and Robert De Niro’s “The War With Grandpa” as some

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