🎟️ Box Office Breakdown: The Wick burns out...

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The Dailies reports on the latest box office news from this week.

Ana de Armas in ‘Ballerina’ (Lionsgate)

1. 🏄‍♂️ Lilo & Stitch: (Wk 3) $32.5M domestic weekend (-47%), $335.8M domestic total, $772.6M global. Secures its third consecutive #1 weekend, now the fifth-biggest Disney Animation remake domestically and closing in on that coveted $800M global milestone.

2. 🩰 Ballerina: 🆕 $25M domestic opening, $51M global debut. Ana de Armas's ‘John Wick’ spin-off stumbles with the franchise's lowest opening since the original ‘John Wick’ ($14.4M in 2014), tumbling from $35M+ tracking projections. Audiences who saw it loved it (76% RT, 94% audience, A- CinemaScore), but attendance was weak.

3.🕴️ Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: (Wk 3) $15M domestic weekend (-45%), $149.2M domestic total, $450.4M global. Maintains decent holds while dominating in China with $47.5M, easily the biggest Hollywood film there this year.

4. 🥋 Karate Kid: Legends: (Wk 2) $8.7M domestic weekend (-57%), $35.4M domestic total, $74M global. Sony's nostalgia play continues to underwhelm with a steep second-weekend drop against its $45M budget.

5. 💀 Final Destination: Bloodlines: (Wk 4) $6.5M domestic weekend (-40%), $123.6M domestic total, $257.2M global.

6. 🎭 The Phoenician Scheme: 🆕 $6.25M domestic opening, $7M global debut. Wes Anderson's latest quirky caper underperforms compared to 2023's ‘Asteroid City’ ($9M opening), earning a lukewarm B- CinemaScore.

7. 👻 Bring Her Back: (Wk 2) $3.5M domestic weekend (-50%), $14.1M domestic total. A24's horror follow-up continues its decent run.

8. 📺 Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye: 🆕 $3.1M domestic opening. GKIDS' anime film marks their second-best 2025 opening after ‘Princess Mononoke’ re-release.

9. 🧛 Sinners: (Wk 8) $2.9M domestic weekend (-45%), $272.6M domestic total.

10. ⚡ Thunderbolts*: (Wk 6) $2.5M domestic weekend (-48%), $186.5M domestic total.

The big picture: Hollywood had a perfectly average weekend with $113.4M at the box office—up 8% from last year but down 24% from last week. ‘Ballerina’ learned the hard way that slapping ‘John Wick’ on your movie poster doesn't automatically mean success, opening with just $25M compared to ‘Chapter 4's’ $74M debut. It's the same story we saw with ‘Furiosa’: turns out audiences don't automatically follow when you expand their favorite franchises with new characters. Both movies landed in the mid-$20M range despite having all the right ingredients on paper. Sometimes brand recognition only gets you so far.

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