{"id":144527,"date":"2025-05-30T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144527\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T16:17:10","slug":"box-office-lilo-stitch-to-rule-over-karate-kid-legends-bring-her-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144527\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ To Rule Over ‘Karate Kid: Legends’, ‘Bring Her Back’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSony\u2019s Karate Kid: Legends<\/strong> grossed $2.3M<\/strong> from previews that began at 2 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe PG-13 movie is a vortex of old school and new school: Ralph Macchio\u2019s Daniel-san, Jackie Chan\u2019s Mr. Han and, shhhhh, the Cobra Kai gang (I mean, is it really a secret?). Forecast for the movie is $25M-$30M <\/strong>in a marketplace where Disney\u2019s Lilo & Stitch<\/strong> is overpowering with a potential $60M<\/strong> second frame. Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning <\/strong>also is hoping to hold with those Imax screens, around $32M<\/strong> or less.<\/p>\n

\n\tCritics like this Karate Kid a little less than the 2010 Chan one, 55% Rotten vs. 67% fresh. Karate Kid: Legends received 4 stars on PostTrak and a 68% definite recommend from definite audiences, 4 1\/2 stars from parents and a 63 definite recommend, and kids under 12 with 4\u00bd stars and a 79% must-see right away. Boys ages 10-12 at 64% made up the majority of the under-12 set; that demo is an essential portion of the Cobra Kai cult. Overall, men showed up at 60% last night.<\/p>\n

\n\tKarate Kid: Legends\u2018 Thursday night is just ahead of the $1.9M that Sony\/Alcon\u2019s The Garfield Movie reboot made last May before a Friday of $8.4M and 3-day of $24M.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKarate Kid: Legends was made for $45M net before P&A; that\u2019s $5M more than the 2010 version cost (unadjusted for inflation). The Karate Kid franchise is 41 years old and counts $620M at the global box office from five previous movies; the bulk of that figure is from the Chan\/Jaden Smith version 15 years ago, which made $359M worldwide.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Sally<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSally Hawkins in \u2018Bring Her Back<\/a>\u2018 (2025)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA24\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s Danny and Michael Philippou horror movie Bring Her Back<\/strong> made $850K<\/strong> in previews at 2,409 theaters that began at 4 p.m. Thursday. That figure is just under A24\u2019s fall sleeper Heretic, which made $1.2M in previews starting at 7 p.m. before turning into a $4.3M Friday and $10.8M opening. The Philippou twins\u2019 previous A24 movie, 2022\u2019s Talk to Me, opened to $10.4M. A good definite-recommend from the fanboy crowd last night for Bring Her Back at 58%, with women over 25 giving the movie its best positive score at 83%. The Thursday crowd was male-heavy at 57% to female\u2019s 43%. Women overall enjoyed it more than the guys, 83% to 77%. Go Sally Hawkins. The pre-weekend outlook is $5M-$7M. On Rotten Tomatoes, Bring Her Back has been stamped with 88% certified fresh. No audience score yet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Lilo<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tLilo & Stitch, Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDisney\/Paramount<\/p>\n

\n\tLilo & Stitch ends its first week with $217M<\/strong> at 4,410 theaters, after $9.2M yesterday, -9% from Wednesday. Pic\u2019s first week is -15% behind that of Inside Out 2\u2018s first week of $255M (which ended its run at $652.9M) and it\u2019s -9% behind Moana 2\u2018s first seven days of $239.3M (final $460.4M). No, we\u2019re not saying the movie is doing bad, we\u2019re just trying to give you an idea of where Lilo & Stitch lives. While no one is forecasting this for Lilo & Stitch, sometimes these fan fave Disney movies can go into overdrive, i.e. Inside Out 2 owns the best second weekend ever for a PG movie of $101.2M. And nobody saw that coming\u2026<\/p>\n

\n\tMission: Impossible \u2013 Final Reckoning ends its first week with an estimated $95.3M<\/strong> at 3,857, which is 7% ahead of the first week of 2018\u2019s Mission: Impossible \u2013 Fallout ($220.1M final domestic) and +4.7% ahead of the first seven days of Dead Reckoning (final domesetic B.O. was $172.6M). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe rest of the top 5 for the week:<\/p>\n

\n\t3.) Final Destination Bloodlines<\/strong> (WB\/NL) 3,523 theaters, Thu $1.85M <\/strong>(-13% from Wed), Week $30.7M<\/strong> (-56%), Total $100.9M<\/strong>\/Wk 2
It was the highest grossing of the franchise out of the gate. Nothing in its way.<\/p>\n

\n\t4.) Thunderbolts*<\/strong> (Dis) 3,180 theaters, Thu $765K (-10%), Wk $14.8M<\/strong> (-36%), Total $177M<\/strong>\/Wk 4<\/p>\n

\n\t5.) Sinners<\/strong> (WB) 2,632 theaters, Thu $880k (-15%), Wk $14.06M<\/strong> (-37%), Total $261.8M<\/strong>\/Wk 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s Karate Kid: Legends grossed $2.3M from previews that began at 2 p.m. Thursday. The PG-13 movie is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[21212,77,56208,25206,3943,62365,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-144527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bring-her-back","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-lilo-stitch","11":"tag-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-karate-kid-legends","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114597687746590859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}