Box Office: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ $60M Second Weekend, ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ $20M Bow

SATURDAY AM: It’s a solid weekend post-Memorial Day weekend at the summer box office with all titles around $144M, +117% from the post-holiday doldrums a year ago. Let’s rejoice and take it. No, it’s not the biggest Post Covid for the post 4-day period, that belongs to 2023 when Sony’s all-pleasing fanboy animated movie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse led all titles to a $205M+ marketplace. However, out of 22 weekends in 2025, only ten of ’em have grossed north of $100M-plus. Let’s be pleased.

Disney’s Lilo & Stitch is still on track for a $60M-$64M second weekend, Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning is showing that Imax makes a difference with a -58% second weekend hold and $26.7M, and Sony’s Karate Kid: Legends…the studio is forecasting $21M-$23M opening off a $7.5M Friday. Rivals see it lower in the high teens, however, it boils down to Saturday business whether it tips more into Karate Kid, and if Lilo & Stitch hits the high end of its range. There is a bit of overlap between the two films demo wise, even though Lilo skews more female at 62% and Karate Kid: Legends more male at 59%, and that’s their men under 25 demos are close (Legends is 22% to Lilo‘s 18%) and their women over 25 as well (Legends is 30% and Lilo 34%). Essentially, more moms are taking kids to see Lilo.

Great exits though for Karate Kid: Legends earning an A-, the same grade as the 1986 sequel, Karate Kid II. The 2010 Jackie Chan version landed an A. Of course, the biggest reason on Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak why people bought tickets to Legends is because it’s part of a franchise they love (46%).

A24’s Bring Her Back after a $3.1M Friday is looking at $7M-$8M. For horror films, especially an A24 one which typically divides audiences, it, wow, landed a B+. Also, four stars and 80% positive and a 57% definite recommend. High praise. Hopefully that all works in the film’s favor throughout this weekend and leg-wise. Thirty one percent of those who bought tickets said they went because it’s a Philippou twins movie, and 48% said it’s because it’s a horror movie.

Also, as expected, Focus Features’ Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme, is heading toward the best theater average of 2025 with $95K from six NYC and LA theaters. Not as high as the director’s Asteroid City two years ago ($142,2K), but robust enough for the specialty sector post pandemic. 3-day looks like $570K in 12th place.

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Disney’s Lilo & Stitch is coming in right where we were seeing it — at $60M in weekend 2, -59%, at 4,410 locations. That hold is similar to that of the second weekend of Little Mermaid, which was also a Memorial Day theatrical release. Today looks like $17M for Lilo‘s second Friday, -70%. Running total for the Dean Fleischer Camp directed movie by Sunday is $277M.

However, Sony’s Karate Kid: Legends is looking lighter than forecasts with a $20M opening after a $7M-$8M Friday that includes previews in 3,809 theaters. That would put the Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan team-up in third place behind Paramount’s second weekend of Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning, with a $7.7M second Friday and $27.3M second weekend, -57% at 3,861. That’s better than Dead Reckoning‘s second weekend decline of -65% sans Imax screens. Running total for the Christopher McQuarrie directed, Tom Cruise title by Sunday looks like $122.6M.

The anticipation is that Saturday will work in both Lilo and Karate Kid: Legends‘ favor.

Fourth is New Line’s Final Destination: Bloodlines with $2.8M today at 3,134 and a third weekend of $10M, -48%, for a running total by Sunday of $110.9M.

Fifth is A24’s Bring Her Back with $3M today (including previews), and $6M-$7M for the weekend at 2,409 sites.

Even if Karate Kid: Legends comes in less than expected, we are in far better shape than a year ago when the post Memorial Day weekend only did $66M per Box Office Mojo (there weren’t any major studio releases and Garfield Movie led with a second weekend take of $14M). The top five movies this weekend (at the high end) are already grossing north of $124M.

PREVIOUS FRIDAY AM: Sony’s Karate Kid: Legends grossed $2.3M from previews that began at 2 p.m. Thursday.

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

Critics 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 4½ 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.

Karate Kid: Legends‘ Thursday night is just ahead of the $1.9M that Sony/Alcon’s The Garfield Movie reboot made last May before a Friday of $8.4M and 3-day of $24M.

Karate Kid: Legends was made for $45M net before P&A; that’s $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.

A24’s Danny and Michael Philippou horror movie Bring Her Back made $850K in previews at 2,409 theaters that began at 4 p.m. Thursday. That figure is just under A24’s 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’ previous A24 movie, 2022’s 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’s 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.

Lilo & Stitch ends its first week with $217M at 4,410 theaters, after $9.2M yesterday, -9% from Wednesday. The pic’s first week is 15% behind that the $255M for Inside Out 2, which ended its run at $652.9M, and it’s 9% behind Moana 2‘s first seven days of $239.3M (final $460.4M). No, we’re not saying the movie is doing badly, we’re 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…

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning ends its first week with an estimated $95.3M at 3,857, which is 7% ahead of the first week of 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout ($220.1M final domestic) and 4.7% ahead of the first seven days of 2022’s Dead Reckoning (final domestic B.O. was $172.6M).

The rest of the top 5 for the week:

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

4. Thunderbolts* (Dis) 3,180 theaters, Thu $765K (-10%), Wk $14.8M (-36%), Total $177M/Wk 4

5. Sinners (WB) 2,632 theaters, Thu $880k (-15%), Wk $14.06M (-37%), Total $261.8M/Wk 6