Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Chris Pratt Goes Splat: Ex “Jurassic World,” “Guardians of the Galaxy” Star Strikes Out with Panned “Mercy” No Box Office

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For a while there, Chris Pratt had the world on a string.

He was the star of two huge movie franchises — “Jurassic World” and “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

He was also married to a TV star, Anna Faris, and they had a cute little kid.

But now everything has gone wrong.

Pratt’s new movie, “Mercy,” posted just over $1 million in previews Thursday night. Critics have given it a very low 20% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the audience score is just 81%.

There’s no mercy for “Mercy” since Pratt came out as a hard right religious Bible thumper. He also divorced Faris and married a Kennedy.

“Mercy” looks headed for a less than $10 million opening weekend, especially with bad weather coming. If we have a national blizzard, even Pratt diehard fans will stay home.

Stay tuned…

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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