In the Heart of the Sea: Cillian Murphy's $100 Million Bo...

What’s Happening

Okay so The star-studded survival drama In the Heart of the Sea flopped in its theatrical run a decade ago, but it’s staging a comeback on streaming.

Cillian Murphy’s Forgotten $100 Million Survival Drama Bombed at the Box Office, but It’s Redeeming Itself on Digital Cillian Murphy in ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ Image via Warner Bros. By Rahul Malhotra Published Feb 1, 2026, 1:20 PM EST Rahul Malhotra is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. (wild, right?)

From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once.

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He has been writing for Collider for over two years, and has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are dropped weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception.

In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal to introduce audiences to a whole new world of cinema. Swing and a miss measured victory.

Why This Matters

Sign in to your Collider account Add Us On follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap It’s difficult to imagine a movie starring Spider-Man, Thor, (a vampire hunting) Abraham Lincoln , Oppenheimer, and (an over-the-top) Donald Trump tanking at the box office, but that’s what happened with director Ron Howard ‘s survival drama In the Heart of the Sea in 2015. Howard somehow saw history repeat itself a decade later, with an equally star-studded movie that also happened to be a survival drama. In the Heart of the Sea just witnessed a surge in viewership numbers on VOD, over a decade after its not it theatrical run.

Entertainment industry insiders have been buzzing about this.

The Bottom Line

In the Heart of the Sea just witnessed a surge in viewership numbers on VOD, over a decade after its not it theatrical run. According to FlixPatrol, it was among the most-watched movies on the domestic Prime Video charts this week, when the leaderboard was topped by A Minecraft Movie .

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