Judas and the Black Messiah
“You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution.”
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Genres
Drama, History
Studio
MACRO
Language
en
Status
Released
How Judas and the Black Messiah performed
Budget
$26.0M
Worldwide Gross
$6.4M
Gross Profit
−$19.6M
Return
0.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$924K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Fred Hampton
Daniel Kaluuya
Fred Hampton
Bill O'Neal
LaKeith Stanfield
Bill O'Neal
Roy Mitchell
Jesse Plemons
Roy Mitchell
Deborah Johnson
Dominique Fishback
Deborah Johnson
Jimmy Palmer
Ashton Sanders
Jimmy Palmer
Jake Winters
Algee Smith
Jake Winters
Bobby Rush
Darrell Britt-Gibson
Bobby Rush
Wayne
Lil Rel Howery
Wayne
Judy Harmon
Dominique Thorne
Judy Harmon
J. Edgar Hoover
Martin Sheen
J. Edgar Hoover
Collins
Amari Cheatom
Collins
Steel
Khris Davis
Steel
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