Key Takeaways
Total 3-Day Weekend Gross:
$149,223,971 | -43% Last Week / +55.6% Weekend 22, 2024
A week after the best Memorial Day Weekend on record at the domestic box office saw a 55%+ improvement over last year’s equivalent frame. Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible kept the top two spots in the market with identical -57% drops. Among new openers, Sony’s Karate Kid Legends whiffed with an underwhelming $21M debut, while Wes Anderson’s The Phoenecian Scheme recorded the best Per-Screen Average of the year in its platform premiere.
- Top Title: Lilo & Stitch (Walt Disney Pictures) | $63M / 4,410 Screens / $14,286 PSA | Week 2
- Top Opener: Karate Kid: Legends (Sony Pictures) | $21M / 3,809 Screens / $5,513 PSA | Week 1
- Best PSA: The Phoenician Scheme (Focus Features) | $570K / 6 Screens / $95K PSA | Week 1
Highlights From the Weekend
1. Lilo & Stitch
Walt Disney Pictures | Week 2
$63M Domestic Weekend | $280.1M Domestic Total
$610.8M Global Total
Disney not only managed to take the weekend but also catapulted to a 30% market share, becoming the #1 studio of 2025 so far with yet another $1 billion year in the books. Lilo & Stitch is driving all this winning, bringing in an estimated $63M in Frame 2 on 4,410 screens for a $14,286 PSA and -57% drop from its record Memorial Day opening.
Here’s how the 3-Day looked for Frame 2, including a huge Saturday influx…
- Friday – $17M
- Saturday – $25.6M
- Sunday – $20.4M
The domestic total now stands at $280.1M, passing Sinners‘ $267M to become the second-highest domestic earner of 2025 behind A Minecraft Movie ($422.95M). In terms of live-action remakes of Disney animated classics it is the sixth biggest earner ahead of Maleficent ($241.4M) and behind Alice in Wonderland ($334.19M), the latter of which it should easily surpass in the next week or two along with Aladdin ($355.55M) and The Jungle Book ($364M).
Globally, Lilo & Stitch has now shot to $610.8M total, ahead of Disney’s Tangled ($582.4M) while still behind Ratatouille ($626.5M) and The Incredibles ($631.4M)… though certainly not for long. The only new market was Hong Kong where it brought in $1.1M to take #1 in the territory. The top 3 international markets are Mexico ($45.9M), the UK ($34.5M), and France ($23.1M).
3. Karate Kid: Legends
Sony Pictures | NEW
$21M Domestic Weekend | $47M Global Total
Sony’s attempt to revive the dormant cinematic Karate Kid franchise fell short as Karate Kid: Legends kicked up an underwhelming $21M debut from 3,809 screens for a $5,513 Per Screen Average. That’s a dip from our panel’s estimated range as well as the Jackie Chan-led 2010 remake’s $55.66M opening. This was part of the problem, since the 2010 Karate Kid was Chan’s last big domestic performer while co-star Ralph Macchio hadn’t led a major film in over three decades. The big streaming numbers for the series Cobra Kai did not translate, as this film represented a mostly different cast and tone, leaning on nostalgia and novelty that were not as appealing to the general public.
Here’s how the 3-Day looked, including $2.3M in Thursday previews…
- Friday – $7.7M
- Saturday – $7.3M
- Sunday – $6M
Critics showed no mercy at 59% critical on Rotten Tomatoes, though audience response was 90% alongside an “A-” CinemaScore and 4½ stars on PostTrak general with a full 5 stars from the kid audience targeted in the title of the film. Competing with a formidable holdover slate didn’t help matters; this film might have fared better over the doldrums of Q1.
Overseas this underdog is doing a little better with $26M earned so far internationally on 7,200+ screens in 43 total markets with 40% of territories yet to open including Australia (June 5), Italy (June 5), Spain (Aug 8), France (Aug 13), and Japan (Aug 29). This frame was led by the UK with $3.4M, followed by Germany ($2.2M), and the Middle East ($1.4M).
Other Notable Performances
Paramount’s big summer bet Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning held on with a $27.2M sophomore frame to maintain second place with a -57% drop from last week. The domestic tally is now $122.6M, a bit ahead of Dead Reckoning at this point in time ($118.6M) but behind Fallout ($124.8M). Globally, the Tom Cruise stunt spectacular has assembled $353.8M, which puts it in striking distance of toppling Mission: Impossible III‘s WW take ($399.3M) within the next few days. This is aided by a terrific #1 showing in China with $25.2M at 11,847 locations, instantly making the Middle Kingdom this entry’s top foreign market ahead of the UK’s $22.3M. The global IMAX total now stands at $53.2M
A24 gave Danny and Michael Philippou’s eerie supernatural horror piece Bring Her Back a big launch on 2,449 screens to the tune of $7M for 5th place on the charts under returning horror champ Final Destination: Bloodlines at $10.8M and crossing $100M for $111.7M domestic. Sinners also did almost as well in its 7th frame with $5.2M, and finally hit over $350M as the industry predicted it would. Bring Her Back got 90% critical on RT, while audience rating was 79% and CinemaScore was a “B+” for an overall positive audience reaction.
Miniaturist auteur Wes Anderson’s latest slice of quirk The Phoenician Scheme took in $570K on 6 screens in its limited debut for a $95K PSA (beating Friendship‘s $74K). This is below the launch of Asteroid City in 2023, which took $853,382 for a $142K PSA on the same number of screens during a similar early-summer frame. The Focus Features release received reserved critical praise at 77% on RT, on par with recent efforts Asteroid City (76%) and The French Dispatch (75%). It launches onto 1500 screens next weekend.
Next Weekend
Lionsgate is betting that a little Keanu Reeves will go a long way with the spin-off film From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas as a new assassin within the same complex Wick world of crime and murder. Meanwhile, Mike Flanagan’s critically acclaimed non-horror Stephen King adaptation, The Life of Chuck, starring Tom Hiddleston, will receive a limited release to build word of mouth before expanding nationwide on June 13.
Sunday Studio Estimates | Weekend 22 – 2025
Total 3-Day Domestic Gross: $149,223,971 | (+55.6% vs 2024)
| Title | Weekend Estimate | % Change | Locations | Location Change | PSA | Domestic Total | Week | Distributor |
| Lilo & Stitch | $63,000,000 | -57% | 4,410 | n/c | $14,286 | 280,121,482 | 2 | Walt Disney |
| Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning | $27,299,900 | -57% | 3,861 | 4 | $7,071 | 122,618,000 | 2 | Paramount Pi… |
| Karate Kid: Legends | $21,000,000 | 3,809 | $5,513 | 21,000,000 | 1 | Sony Pictures | ||
| Final Destination: Bloodlines | $10,800,000 | -44% | 3,134 | -389 | $3,446 | 111,714,000 | 3 | Warner Bros. |
| Bring Her Back | $7,081,501 | 2,449 | $2,892 | 7,081,501 | 1 | A24 | ||
| Sinners | $5,225,000 | -39% | 2,138 | -494 | $2,444 | 267,087,000 | 7 | Warner Bros. |
| Thunderbolts* | $4,800,000 | -50% | 2,520 | -660 | $1,905 | 181,858,785 | 5 | Walt Disney |
| Friendship | $2,567,097 | -51% | 1,293 | 238 | $1,985 | 12,366,816 | 4 | A24 |
| The Last Rodeo | $2,145,785 | -60% | 1,995 | -210 | $1,076 | 10,752,970 | 2 | Angel Studios |
| J-hope Tour ‘Hope on the Stage’ in JAPAN: Live … | $939,173 | 631 | $1,488 | 939,173 | 1 | Trafalgar Re… | ||
| The Accountant 2 | $776,000 | -62% | 820 | -1,182 | $946 | 64,999,861 | 6 | Amazon MGM S… |
| A Minecraft Movie | $755,000 | -66% | 824 | -1,263 | $916 | 422,955,000 | 9 | Warner Bros. |
| Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience | $689,817 | 428 | $1,612 | 689,817 | 1 | Trafalgar Re… | ||
| The Phoenician Scheme | $570,000 | 6 | $95,000 | 570,000 | 1 | Focus Features | ||
| Tornado | $130,001 | 412 | $316 | 130,001 | 1 | IFC Films | ||
| The Amateur | $58,000 | -49% | 120 | -145 | $483 | 40,715,939 | 8 | 20th Century… |
| Hurry Up Tomorrow | $31,000 | -95% | 124 | -1,384 | $250 | 5,184,105 | 3 | Lionsgate |
| Clown in a Cornfield | $25,000 | -84% | 47 | -203 | $532 | 7,236,664 | 4 | RLJ Entertai… |
| Disney’s Snow White | $11,000 | -96% | 25 | -25 | $440 | 87,203,312 | 11 | Walt Disney |
| Ghost Trail | $5,600 | 4 | $1,400 | 5,600 | 1 | Music Box Films | ||
| Vulcanizadora | $1,004 | -13% | 4 | n/c | $251 | 23,717 | 5 | Oscilloscope… |
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