Ben Wang in “Karate Kid Legends” and Stitch (voice of Chris Sanders) in “Lilo and Stitch.”
Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning are easily holding back Karate Kid: Legends at the weekend box office.
Lilo & Stitch, the live-action remake of the 2002 animated classic of the same name, defied industry projections over the four-day Memorial Day weekend holiday to earn $182.6 million from 4,410 North American theaters, while Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning made $77 million domestically from 3,857 venues.
Karate Kid: Legends, which is the sixth film in the action franchise and the first Karate Kid movie since 2010, is the only film opening wide this weekend domestically. The film finds original Karate Kid franchise star Ralph Macchio and 2010 reboot lead Jackie Chan teaming up to help a new “Karate Kid,” played by Ben Wang, in a karate match against a bullying opponent.
Karate Kid: Legends is projected to make $20 million in its opening Friday to Sunday frame from 3,809 theaters for a No. 3 debut, according to Deadline.
The industry publication earlier this week projected a much healthier $25 million to $30 million opening for the Sony Pictures Entertainment release.
Variety also projected a $25 million opening for Karate Kid: Legends, noting that the film had a $45 million production budget before prints and advertising costs.
Sony Pictures Entertainment early Friday reported that Karate Kid: Legends made $2.3 million in Thursday preview screenings at 3,050 locations.
Lilo & Stitch, meanwhile, is projected by Deadline to keep its domestic box office crown with $60 million in ticket sales from 4,410 in its second-weekend frame, which will up the film’s domestic take to $277 million through Sunday if the estimate holds.
Deadline also is projecting a $27.3 million from 3,861 North American ticket sales for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning through Sunday. Should that forecast hold, it will boost the Paramount Pictures release’s running domestic tally to $122.6 million.
Brec Bassinger in “Final Destination Bloodlines.”
‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Still Holding Strong In Top 5
Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s Final Destination Bloodlines, which opened at No. 1 two weekends ago, is projected by Deadline to make $10 million from 3,134 theaters domestically in its third-weekend frame. Should the estimate hold, it will up the film’s running tally to $110.9 million.
The Warner Bros. horror thriller is holding off another horror thriller — A24’s Bring Her Back — to secure the No. 4 spot on the domestic chart.
Deadline projects Bring Her Back will round out the top 5 with a projected $6 million to $7 million in ticket sales from 2,409 North American venues.
Note: This box office report will be updated throughout the weekend with the most current numbers as they become available. The final numbers for this weekend’s box office will be released on Monday.
