
Robert Pattinson’s ‘Primetime’ Nets $19.2 Million in US Opening
The biopic crime thriller opened on September 26, pulling in roughly $19.2 million over its first weekend and ranking fourth domestically.

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Christopher Edward Hansen is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality. During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), which revolved around catching potential Internet predators using a sting operation.
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The biopic crime thriller opened on September 26, pulling in roughly $19.2 million over its first weekend and ranking fourth domestically.

A new film about Chris Hansen's To Catch a Predator years dramatises his marriage falling apart over an alleged affair. The real-world timeline, as reported back then, tells a messier story.

A24's Primetime dramatises the 2006 To Catch a Predator sting that led to Louis Conradt's suicide, but the film invents scenes, merges characters, and changes the raid's weather and timing entirely.

Chris Hansen finally watched Primetime on opening night and didn't hold back, telling Fox News that Robert Pattinson's performance as him felt unhinged, dark and detached from reality.

The film ‘Primetime’, starring Robert Pattinson as a fictionalised Chris Hansen, opened on September 25 and instantly ignited discussion over the moral line between journalism and entertainment after depicting a real‑world sting that ended in tragedy.

Chris Hansen, host of the “Have a Seat” podcast, called the A24 drama Primetime largely fictional, criticised Robert Pattinson’s performance and hinted at possible legal pushback over its handling of sensitive themes.

Chris Hansen, the face of the early‑2000s TV sting series, walked out of A24’s Primetime without watching it and later blasted Robert Pattinson’s portrayal as exaggerated, calling the movie a bizarre mix of fact and fiction.

A24's Primetime, out September 25, reimagines Chris Hansen's To Catch a Predator through the eyes of its real decoy, Dan Schrack, now a news anchor who says he'd never go back to that job.

Chris Hansen watched A24's Primetime, the unauthorized film about his To Catch a Predator years, and didn't hold back, grading Robert Pattinson's performance a D and calling the whole thing overly dramatic and disconnected from reality.

Chris Hansen finally watched Primetime after weeks of pre-emptive complaints, graded Robert Pattinson's impression of him a D and dismissed most of the film as invented drama with an agenda.

CBFC has granted an A certificate to Robert Pattinson's Primetime after trimming seven seconds of frontal nudity and muting obscene language, with the certified print handed to PVR Inox Pictures on September 22.

Jeff Zucker, who once ran CNN Worldwide and NBCUniversal, makes his screen debut playing himself in A24's Primetime, opposite Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, at its Venice premiere.