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It’s been a while since Chris Pine has starred in a major tent-pole that did well at the box office. About 15 years ago, he was headlining the Star Trek reboot series, after which he played an important role in Wonder Woman. More recently, Pine attempted to return to starring roles in potential franchise films with Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, but the movie fell short of expectations at the box office. In the last half decade, Pine has appeared mostly in smaller-scale projects, and at least one of them has emerged as a sensational hit on home video. The movie in question was released theatrically four years ago, but it had a negligible impact at the box office. However, it has remained an audience favorite on the PVOD market ever since.
The film in question was aimed directly at the demographic that turned Prime Video’s Bosch into an iconic hit. In fact, it was released in the same year as the streamer’s Reacher reboot, which followed in the footsteps of the Jack Ryan series. Pine himself attempted to launch a new theatrical series with Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, but the movie underperformed. Each of these titles was designed to appeal to the same audience that lapped up airport thrillers such as “The Bourne Legacy” in the past. Pine’s movie combined the military-themed thrills and geopolitical intrigue that made the Bourne series such a massive hit. And the recipe seems to have worked again.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Chris Pine’s Spy-Thriller Has Been Embraced by Audiences
The movie we’re talking about is The Contractor, directed by Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Tarik Saleh. The film marked a Hell or High Water reunion between Pine and Ben Foster, who were joined by Gillian Jacobs and Kiefer Sutherland. The Contractor grossed just $2 million in its limited theatrical run, which began in the same week as that of Morbius. However, it has delivered a phenomenal performance on home video. According to FlixPatrol, the movie has spent more than 70 days on the domestic Paramount+ chart this year. It holds a 45% critics’ score and a 72% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “The Contractor is caught between message movie and standard-issue action thriller, satisfying neither aim despite strong work from a talented cast.” Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
