{"id":637594,"date":"2026-04-30T01:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637594\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:55:12","slug":"desert-warrior-bombs-big-time-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637594\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Desert Warrior&#8221; Bombs Big Time At Box-Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/desert-warrior-bombs-big-time-at-box-office.jpg\" data-caption=\"Vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/desert-warrior-bombs-big-time-at-box-office.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"desert-warrior-bombs-big-time-at-box-office\"\/><\/a>Vertical<\/p>\n<p>The Anthony Mackie-led \u201cDesert Warrior\u201d is reportedly on track to become one of the biggest box-office flops of all time.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows a princess who flees into the Arabian desert as she\u2019s hunted by mercenaries. Forged into a warrior and aided by a legendary bandit (Mackie), she unites warring tribes for a last stand that will alter the course of history.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Kingsley, Sharlto Copley and Aiysha Hart co-star in the film, which was directed by Rupert Wyatt (\u201cRise of the Planet of the Apes\u201d) at least until he walked away from the project for a while during post-production according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/desert-warrior-delayed-mbc-saudi-arabia-epic-anthony-mackie-1236117500\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film ultimately took around six years to produce due to assorted delays. Reviews were extremely negative, with a 27% on Rotten Tomatoes and an IMDb score of 1.9\/10.<\/p>\n<p>Then you have the complication of it being a $150 million budgeted film primarily backed by Saudi Arabia in their most ambitious effort in film production to date.<\/p>\n<p>The result is \u201cDesert Warrior\u201d ultimately opened in U.S. cinemas last weekend to a disastrous $483 per-screen average and total haul of just $487,848 from a little over 1,000 screens \u2013 one of the worst box office openings of all time and is already being labelled as one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofreel.com\/blog\/2026\/4\/28\/desert-warrior-bombs-150m-saudi-backed-epic-opens-to-just-472k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World of Reel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/new-spider-man-brand-new-day-script-details\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d Script Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/disney-sets-live-action-casper-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+ Sets Live-Action \u201cCasper\u201d Series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vertical The Anthony Mackie-led \u201cDesert Warrior\u201d is reportedly on track to become one of the biggest box-office flops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-637594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}