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Box Office Trends 6/1

In today's Box Office Breakdown, we analyze six new releases:

• Sony’s Karate Kid: Legends

• A24’s Bring Her Back

• Trafalgar Releasing’s J-hope Tour ‘Hope on the Stage’ in JAPAN: Live Viewing

• Focus Features’ The Phoenician Scheme

• IFC Films’ Tornado

• Music Box Films’ Ghost Trail

Plus: A deep dive into why the new Mission: Impossible is starting to stall in week 2 and what that signals for the Tom Cruise franchise.

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Disney’s Lilo & Stitch took #1 at the box office for the second weekend in a row, with $63M domestically, bringing its domestic total to $280.1M. Its worldwide box office total is $611M.

This is a slightly above average drop for a high-performing Disney live-action remake:

• The Lion King (2019)

  • $191.8M opening

  • $76.6M week 2 (60% drop)

  • $543.6M domestic total

  • $1.662bn worldwide

• Beauty and the Beast (2017)

  • $174.8M opening

  • $90.4M week 2 (48% drop)

  • $504.5M domestic total

  • $1.266bn worldwide

• Lilo & Stitch (2025)

  • $146M opening

  • $63M week 2 (57% drop)

• The Little Mermaid (2023)

  • $95.6M opening

  • $41.4M week 2 (57% drop)

  • $298.2M domestic total

  • $569.6M worldwide

• Aladdin (2019)

  • $91.5M opening

  • $42.8M week 2 (53% drop)

  • $355.6M domestic total

  • $1.098bn worldwide

Lilo & Stitch is already in the black with a $100M production budget and $100M in marketing.

It’s sensational as the film has already topped the original animated film from 2002, which opened to $35M and took in $273.1M worldwide.

The film also took in a weekend best per screen average of any film in the top ten with $14.3K/screen across 4410 theaters.

Here is the trailer.

Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:

$27.3M - Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning (Paramount)

• $122.6M domestic total

• $249.6M worldwide

• $400M budget

• RT: 79%

• Week 2

• Trailer

Despite having the best series opening of all time, it took a concerning 57% week 2 drop.

This is atypical for a recent MI film, which has seen drops in the 40-49% range. The only higher drop was when it was up against Barbie and Oppenheimer in 2023:

• MI8 (2025)

  • $64M opening

  • 57% week 2 drop ($27.3M)

• MI6 (2018)

  • $61.2M opening

  • 42% week 2 drop ($35.3M)

  • $220.2M domestic total

  • $824.2M worldwide

• MI5 (2015)

  • $55.5M opening

  • 49% week 2 drop ($28.5M)

  • $195M domestic total

  • $710.9M worldwide

• MI7 (2023)

  • $54.7M opening

  • 65% week 2 drop ($19.4M)

  • $398.5M domestic total

  • $571.1M worldwide

Mission: Impossible films always earn asymmetrically at the international box office. With the highest domestic multiplier coming from MI6, where the international cume was 2.7x its domestic total.

MI8 is about 2x right now, so it’ll have to perform even better internationally if it is going to recoup on its insane budget, hampered by the pandemic and strikes.

$21M - Karate Kid: Legends (Sony Pictures)

• $34.5M worldwide

• $45M budget

• RT: 57%

• Week 1

• Trailer

This is a weak opening as the last remake performed 2.5x better on a lower budget:

• The Karate Kid (2010)

  • $55.7M opening

  • $40M budget

  • $176.6M domestic total

  • $359.1M worldwide

However, this is much stronger than the originals:

• The Karate Kid (1984)

  • $5M opening

  • $91.1M domestic total

  • $91.1M worldwide

• The Karate Kid Part II (1986)

  • $12.7M opening

  • $115.1M domestic total

• The Karate Kid Part III (1989)

  • $10.4M opening

  • $39M domestic total

• The Next Karate Kid (1994)

  • $8.9M domestic total

  • $14.9M worldwide

The popularity of the 6-season Cobra Kai series on Netflix has propelled The Karate Kid into a global phenomenon (notice how the originals all did fairly low business internationally).

Karate Kid: Legends will recoup, but it’s not a gold rush.