Battle at the Box Office 6/2/25
Lilo & Stitch easily remained at the top of the box office while Karate Kid: Legends had a fairly disappointing debut in third place.
Lilo & Stitch brought in another $61.8 million, dropping 58% from last weekend’s massive opening. It now has $278.9 million domestically and $613.4 million worldwide. It’s now the third-highest-grossing film worldwide for 2025 and the second-highest-grossing film domestically, in both cases sitting behind A Minecraft Movie.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning dropped 57% from last weekend, earning another $27.2 million, bringing its domestic total to $122.5 million and its worldwide total to $353.7 million. It’s still the lowest-grossing Mission: Impossible film, both domestically and worldwide, sitting about $11 million behind Mission: Impossible III domestically and about $46 million behind it worldwide. It is tracking almost identically to Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which ultimately grossed $220 million domestically and $786.6 million worldwide, so we’ll have to see how The Final Reckoning keeps pace.
Karate Kid: Legends debuted with $20.3 million domestically, which is significantly down from The Karate Kid’s 2010 opening of over $55 million. Worldwide, the movie has made $46.3 million. The film received an A-CinemaScore, indicating that audiences mostly liked it. This is also reflected in its high rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the Audience rating is 91%. Professional critics were much harsher. We’ll have to see what kind of drop it has this weekend. If it has an OK drop, it could leg out, but it’s not a great start. I’m curious about how much the lack of tie-in to Cobra Kai hurt it, as the movie doesn’t mention any of the events from the series and only features a brief cameo from someone other than Ralph Macchio before the credits. The trailers also sold that aspect.
Final Destination: Bloodlines and Bring Her Back rounded out the top 5. Bloodlines maintained another strong hold, with 44%, earning an additional $10.9 million and bringing the movie’s domestic total to over $111 million. Bring Her Back debuted in fifth with $7 million. For A24, that places it between Warfare and The Green Knight in terms of openings. The movie received a B+ CinemaScore, which is very good for a horror movie, especially considering it was an A24 release.
The Phoenician Scheme took the best per-theater average for the weekend, making $93,417 in each of the six theaters it played in. It opens wide this coming weekend.
