Pursuits
Keanu Reeves Shows Hollywood How to Make Money
Low cost John Wick is “a profit-making machine and a movie studio’s dream.”
Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 2.
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Keanu Reeves, now pushing 52, is a hot commodity again. Yes, 2017 just got that much stranger.
John Wick: Chapter 2, the latest vehicle for the 1990s heartthrob, garnered an estimated $30 million in domestic ticket sales in its first weekend. That’s more than double the amount raked in by the first film, and the fourth best debut of the year. (The movie took in an additional $10.6 million in international markets.)