This market will resolve according to how much "By Any Means" Opening Weekend Box Office will gross domestically on its opening weekend. The "Daily Box Office Performance" figures found on the "Box Office" tab on this movie's The Numbers (https://www.the-numbers.com/) page will be used to resolve this market once the values for the 3-day opening weekend (September 4 - 6) are final (i.e., not studio estimates). If the reported value falls exactly between two brackets, then this market will resolve to the higher range bracket. Please note, this market will resolve according to the The Numbers figures provided under Weekend Box Office Performance for the 3-day weekend (which typically includes Thursday's previews), regardless of whether domestic refers to only the USA, or to USA and Canada, etc. If there is ambiguity as to whether the resolution source's figures are final, this market will remain open until both https://www.boxofficemojo.com/ and https://www.the-numbers.com/ have confirmed their finalized figures. If there is no final data available by September 11, 2026, 11:59 PM ET, another credible resolution source will be chosen.
Mixed critical reception and Labor Day timing anchor trader expectations for By Any Means in the 5-7 million range. Paramount’s historical crime thriller, directed by Elegance Bratton and pairing Yahya Abdul-Mateen II with Mark Wahlberg, opened September 4 amid typically soft holiday attendance and against another new wide release, Onslaught. Reviews landed at 69% on Rotten Tomatoes and 56 on Metacritic, signaling average word-of-mouth potential for a period piece centered on 1960s civil-rights investigations. Star-driven marketing and the true-story hook provide some floor, yet the competitive dynamics—modest presales, genre positioning, and seasonal headwinds—keep the market tightly clustered between 5-6 million and 6-7 million, with limited upside beyond 8 million absent stronger audience scores.