Austin Williams will play a younger version of Owen's character. "Blood Ties" screened out of competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. A trimmed version, running 127 minutes, was released in the United States on March 21, 2014. The 127 minute version was released on DVD in June 2014. "Blood Ties" received mixed reviews. On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rate of 52% based, based on 56 reviews, with an average score of 5.61/10. The website's critics consensus reads: ""Blood Ties" boasts a fine cast and palpable period detail, but ultimately fails to do much of anything new with its formulaic story." Metacritic gave the film a rating of 45/100 (indicating "mixed or average"), based on reviews from 16 critics. Todd McCarthy of "The Hollywood Reporter" criticized the film, saying: "The impressive cast makes this French-financed New York 1974-set production watchable but it's too inert to catch on with critics or audiences." Xan Brooks of "The Guardian" gave the film 3 out of 5 stars. Matt Barone of "Complex" gave the film 3 out of 10 stars. Fionnuala Halligan of "Screen International" called it ""Heat" meets "Mesrine" via Cain and Abel". Ryland Aldrich of "Twitch Film" praised the production. "From the wonderfully decorated exteriors loaded with the cars of the era to the record players spinning classic hits, 1970s New York absolutely comes alive", he said. At the box office, "Blood Ties" was a huge flop worldwide. In France, it had only 238,823 entries, although it was screened in more than 400 screens in the country. In the U.S., it was released by Roadside Attractions and made $42,472 over two weekends. According to Box Office Mojo the film made $2,415,472 around the world, after a $25 million budget.