“Lilo & Stich” and “Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning” dominated the box office lists again after feeding a weekend of the fall record day. The theaters in the USA. And Canada also had several new films this weekend, including the “Karate Kid: Legends” family by Sony and the horror movie A24 “Training Her Back”.
According to Studio Sunday estimates, he joined a solid weekend of $ 149 million after the holidays that increased more than 120% since the same period of last year.
Disney’s live action hybrid “Lilo & Stitch” took first place again with $ 63 million of 4,410 locations in North America. It was enough to approve “sinners” to become the second highest grossing film of the year with $ 280.1 million for sale of national tickets. Worldwide, its total operation is $ 610.8 million. “Los sinners”, meanwhile, continues to strengthen in its seventh weekend with another $ 5.2 million, which raised it to $ 267.1 million nationwide and $ 350.1 million worldwide.
The eighth film “Mission: Impossible” was also repeated in second place, with $ 27.3 million of 3,861 locations. As with “Lilo & Stitch”, that has dropped 57% of its opening. With $ 122.6 million in national tickets sold, it is working in line with the two previous deliveries. But with a reported production budget of $ 400 million, profitability is an appearance. Internationally, he added $ 76.1 million (including $ 25.2 million from China, where he has just opened), which raised its global total to $ 353.8 million.
“This is the year of long -term gameplay,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst. “Boca to mouth currency and strong control is more important than the opening of weekend dollars.”
Leading the newcomers was “Karate Kid: Legends” from Sony, with an estimated $ 21 million of 3,809 locations. The film brings together Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio to train a new child, the Prodigy Li Fong (Ben Wang). Chan starred in a 2010 reset of the 1984 original, while Macchio has found a new generation of fans in the series “Cobra Kai”, which has just concluded a six -seasons race.
It is possible that the reviews have mixed, but the public opening public gave the film qualified by PG-13 a solid cinemacore and 4.5 stars in Postrak. It also cost only $ 45 million to produce and has several weeks until a new family film arrives. “Karate Kid: Legends” previously opened internationally and has a world total of $ 47 million.
The fourth place was “Final destination: Bloodlines”, which won $ 10.8 million in its third weekend. The film is the most held in the franchise, not counting inflation, with $ 229.3 million worldwide.
The other great newcomer from the weekend, “bring him back” completed the first five with $ 7.1 million of 2,449 screens. Starring Sally Hawkins as an adoptive mother with some disturbing plans, the film is the second year student of the twin filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou, who made the terror breakdown of 2023 “Talk to me”. He obtained a weird for the cinemacore b+ of yesteryear and is essentially the only new film in the genre until “28 years later” opens on June 20.
A new Wes Anderson movie, “The Phoenician Scheme,” also debuted in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, where he won $ 270,000. It expands throughout the country next weekend.
The prognosis of the summer box office remains promising, although there is a long way to go to reach the objective of $ 4 billion (a pre-pandemic standard that only summer “Barbenheimer” has overcome). The May is expected to close $ 973 million, 75% more than in May 2024, according to Comscore data.
Top 10 domestic box office films
With the latest national figures that are published on Monday, this Factor list in the sale of estimated tickets from Friday to Sunday in the US theaters. UU. And Canada, according to Comscore:
1. “Lilo and Stitch”, $ 63 million.
2. “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”, $ 27.3 million.
3. “Karate Kid: Legends”, 21 million.
4. “Final destination: blood lines”, $ 10.8 million.
5. “Bring back”, $ 7.1 million.
6. “Sinners”, $ 5.2 million.
7. “Thunderbolts”, $ 4.8 million.
8. “Friendship”, $ 2.6 million.
9. “The Last Rodeo”, $ 2.1 million.
10. “J-Hope Tour ‘Hope On The Stage’ in Japan: live vision”, $ 939,173.
