**By Any Means** opens on Labor Day weekend with modest tracking expectations centered in the mid-single-digit millions, as traders weigh the star-driven appeal of Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II against the historically softer holiday frame and an R-rated historical crime thriller premise. Paramount’s campaign has leaned on the true-story hook of a 1960s Mississippi civil-rights investigation and the uneasy partnership between an FBI agent and a mafia hitman, yet early social metrics and comparable titles suggest limited broad-audience heat compared with summer tentpoles. The tight clustering around the 5–7 million brackets reflects uncertainty over whether name recognition and genre fans can push the film into the upper range or whether counter-programming and vacation timing will cap the debut closer to 5 million. With reviews and final tracking updates due in the next 48 hours, any shift in exit-poll sentiment or social conversation volume could quickly reprice the higher or lower brackets before the three-day window locks.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · Updated"By Any Means" Opening Weekend Box Office
"By Any Means" Opening Weekend Box Office
6-7m 32%
5-6m 22%
7-8m 19%
8m+ 18%
NEW
NEW
Sep 6, 2026
<4m
7%
4-5m
16%
5-6m
22%
6-7m
32%
7-8m
19%
8m+
18%
6-7m 32%
5-6m 22%
7-8m 19%
8m+ 18%
NEW
NEW
Sep 6, 2026
<4m
$30 Vol.
7%
4-5m
$121 Vol.
16%
5-6m
$30 Vol.
22%
6-7m
$69 Vol.
32%
7-8m
$30 Vol.
19%
8m+
$65 Vol.
18%
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.**By Any Means** opens on Labor Day weekend with modest tracking expectations centered in the mid-single-digit millions, as traders weigh the star-driven appeal of Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II against the historically softer holiday frame and an R-rated historical crime thriller premise. Paramount’s campaign has leaned on the true-story hook of a 1960s Mississippi civil-rights investigation and the uneasy partnership between an FBI agent and a mafia hitman, yet early social metrics and comparable titles suggest limited broad-audience heat compared with summer tentpoles. The tight clustering around the 5–7 million brackets reflects uncertainty over whether name recognition and genre fans can push the film into the upper range or whether counter-programming and vacation timing will cap the debut closer to 5 million. With reviews and final tracking updates due in the next 48 hours, any shift in exit-poll sentiment or social conversation volume could quickly reprice the higher or lower brackets before the three-day window locks.
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.
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.
Market Opened: Aug 31, 2026, 1:11 PM ET
Volume
$345End Date
Sep 6, 2026Market Opened
Aug 31, 2026, 1:11 PM ETResolver
0x69c47De9D...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.**By Any Means** opens on Labor Day weekend with modest tracking expectations centered in the mid-single-digit millions, as traders weigh the star-driven appeal of Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II against the historically softer holiday frame and an R-rated historical crime thriller premise. Paramount’s campaign has leaned on the true-story hook of a 1960s Mississippi civil-rights investigation and the uneasy partnership between an FBI agent and a mafia hitman, yet early social metrics and comparable titles suggest limited broad-audience heat compared with summer tentpoles. The tight clustering around the 5–7 million brackets reflects uncertainty over whether name recognition and genre fans can push the film into the upper range or whether counter-programming and vacation timing will cap the debut closer to 5 million. With reviews and final tracking updates due in the next 48 hours, any shift in exit-poll sentiment or social conversation volume could quickly reprice the higher or lower brackets before the three-day window locks.
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.
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.
Volume
$345End Date
Sep 6, 2026Market Opened
Aug 31, 2026, 1:11 PM ETResolver
0x69c47De9D...**By Any Means** opens on Labor Day weekend with modest tracking expectations centered in the mid-single-digit millions, as traders weigh the star-driven appeal of Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II against the historically softer holiday frame and an R-rated historical crime thriller premise. Paramount’s campaign has leaned on the true-story hook of a 1960s Mississippi civil-rights investigation and the uneasy partnership between an FBI agent and a mafia hitman, yet early social metrics and comparable titles suggest limited broad-audience heat compared with summer tentpoles. The tight clustering around the 5–7 million brackets reflects uncertainty over whether name recognition and genre fans can push the film into the upper range or whether counter-programming and vacation timing will cap the debut closer to 5 million. With reviews and final tracking updates due in the next 48 hours, any shift in exit-poll sentiment or social conversation volume could quickly reprice the higher or lower brackets before the three-day window locks.
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