Recently, the announcement was made that table reads had begun for the Blue Bloods spin-off, Boston Blue, with Donnie Wahlberg returning as Detective Danny Reagan in the CBS procedural, which is scheduled to arrive this fall. With that in mind, many are flicking through Wahlberg’s catalog of movies and shows in a successful career to date, looking for their fix of the fan-favorite actor as time ticks closer to Boston Blue’s arrival.
One such movie is Dreamcatcher, a forgotten sci-fi horror flick directed by Star Wars veteran Lawrence Kasdan. Debuting in 2003, the movie sadly became a commercial and critical failure, despite also boasting the acting talents of the iconic Morgan Freeman, Alien: Earth’s Timothy Olyphant, Damian Lewis, and more. An adaptation of Stephen King’s 2001 novel of the same name, in a 2007 interview with Time Magazine, the author called the film a “train wreck,” such was its poor reception. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the movie earned just 28% from critics, with a 36% rating from audiences, doing nothing to salvage its reputation.
Currently, despite its many problems in 2003, Dreamcatcher has found unlikely success on U.S. streaming, officially becoming one of the ten most-streamed movies on Tubi, as of July 10, 2025. The movie has even debuted as high as fourth in the ranking, losing out to a worthy trio of the Tom Hanks-led Forrest Gump, the era-defining Pulp Fiction, and the 1997 classic Titanic, directed by James Cameron. Elsewhere in the current Tubi top 10, Final Destination 5 is popular, with the latest installment in the horror franchise, Final Destination Bloodlines, in theaters. Zoe Saldaña’s forgotten revenge thriller Colombiana is an unlikely hit, joined by the third installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise, Summer Vacation and Edward Zwick’s Legends of the Fall.
Did ‘Dreamcatcher’ Catch Any Box-Office Dreams?
Panned by critics, Dreamcatcher also faced similar failings at the box office. Produced on a reported budget of $68 million, Dreamcatcher only just reached this figure and was nowhere near hitting the all-important $136 million mark. Globally, the movie returned $75.6 million, split between $33.6 million domestically and a further $42 million from overseas markets. Dreamcatcher finished the year as the 71st highest-grossing movie worldwide, outperforming Kevin Costner’s Open Range but losing out to the likes of Bad Santa, Good Bye, Lenin!, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, and more.
