Amazon MGM Studios’ Road House remake earned its fair share of detractors for making its debut on the small-screen, but it appears that the studio are calling it a unanimous victory by announcing that the film is Amazon’s biggest ever movie launch with 50 million viewers.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Doug Liman-directed remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze classic has generated 50 million viewers since it debuted on March 21, although the studio didn’t clarify how it measured those figures.
Road House debuted at SXSW festival, but made headlines for all the wrong reasons when director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) threatened to boycott the premiere due to Amazon’s decision to send the Jake Gyllenhaal action flick straight to streaming. He eventually reneged on the threat, leaving it to the millions of viewers to enjoy the film (read our review ★★★ here), but bemoan the fact that they could’t enjoy it on the big-screen.
Road House stars Jake Gyllenhaal as former UFC athlete Elwood Dalton, who takes a job as a cooler at a rough roadside bar in the Florida Keys, and in the process gets more than he bargained for.
The Prince of Persia actor stars alongside real-life MMA champion Conor McGregor, Billy Magnussen (Game Night), Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad), Gbemisola Ikumelo (The Last Tree), Lukas Gage (The White Lotus), Hannah Love Lanier (A Black Lady Sketch Show), Travis Van Winkle (Accepted), B.K. Cannon (Switched at Birth), Arturo Castro (Broad City), Dominique Columbus (Ray Donovan), Beau Knapp (Southpaw) and Bob Menery.
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