'Ballerina'

Source: Lionsgate

‘Ballerina’

Worldwide box office: June 6-8

TitleFilm (distributor) 3-day (worldCume (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l)Territories
1 Lilo & Stitch (Disney) $100.2m $772.6m $67.7m $436.8m 53
2 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Paramount) $55.6m $450.4m $40.6m $301.2m 67
3 Ballerina (Lionsgate)  $51m $51m $26m $26m 83
4 Karate Kid: Legends (Sony) $18.7m $74m $10m $38.6m 58
5 Housefull 5 (various) $16.3m $16.3m $15.2m $15.2m 23
6 Final Destination: Bloodlines (Warner Bros) $14.6m $257.2m $8.1m $133.6m 76
7 The Phoenician Scheme (Universal) $9.1m $18m $2.9m $11m 58
8 Thug Life (various) $4.6m $9.1m $4.1m $7.7m 21
9 Bring Her Back (Sony) $4.4m $16.3m $900,000 $2.3m 12
10 Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye (various) $4.3m $4.4m $1.2m $1.3m 24

Credit: Comscore. All figures are estimates.  

‘John Wick’ spinoff makes so-so start

Lionsgate will be emphasising the positives after Ballerina (aka From the World of John Wick: Ballerina) debuted with an estimated $51m at the worldwide box office.

The split is almost even, with an estimated $26m in North America (below tracking that had suggested a $30-$35m domestic launch) and $25m across 82 international markets.

Lionsgate did not provide a country breakdown. Ballerina was the top new opener in key markets UK/Ireland, Mexico and China.

Data gatherer Artisan Gateway reports Ballerina’s China box office at $2.9m – opening in third place behind holdover titles Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (topping the China chart in its third week with $10.4m) and Chinese romantic fantasy animation Endless Journey Of Love ($4.2m).

Ballerina has yet to open in Italy and Japan.

Lionsgate and producer partners hit franchise heights with John Wick: Chapter 4, launching in March 2023 with $138m worldwide, including $64m for international markets. The eventual worldwide total was $440.2m according to available data.

Ballerina faces the commercial handicap that the film introduces a new protagonist (played by Ana de Armas), with Keanu Reeves as John Wick in a supporting role.

Lionsgate presents a Thunder Road Films / 87Eleven Entertainment production. Director Len Wiseman takes over the reins from Chad Stahelski, who directed all four John Wick films and serves here as producer.

‘Lilo & Stitch’ tops worldwide box office again, hits $773m total

Disney’s Lilo & Stitch is continuing its strong run at the worldwide box office, topping the chart for the third weekend in a row, and adding an estimated $100.3m for the weekend. Total to date is $772.6m.

For comparison, Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie stood at $717.8m globally after three weekends of play, so Lilo & Stitch is running 8% ahead of 2025’s other big Hollywood studio family film at the same stage of release.

A Minecraft Movie remains the top US studio title of 2025, with $951.4m to date.

Lilo & Stitch fell 47% from the previous session in North America, and dropped an identical 47% in international holdover markets. The film opened in Japan, topping the box office with an estimated $4.0m, 2% below the debut for A Minecraft Movie.

Among international markets, Mexico continues to lead with $56.8m to date, making it now the territory’s top achiever among Disney’s live-action remakes of animated films, overtaking 2019’s The Lion King. Across the whole Latin America region, Lilo & Stitch is the second highest grossing Disney like-action remake.

UK/Ireland comes second among international territories for Lilo & Stitch with $42.2m, ahead of France ($30.4m), Brazil ($28.2m), Germany ($23.7m) and China ($22.4m).

Globally, Lilo & Stitch is now the fifth-biggest Disney remake, behind $1bn-plus hits The Lion King, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin, plus also The Jungle Book ($968m).

‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ passes $450m

Mission Impossible — The Final Reckoning

Source: Paramount Pictures

‘Mission Impossible — The Final Reckoning’

Paramount and Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning added almost $100m over the past seven days, and has now reached $450.4m worldwide. Weekend takings are estimated at $55.6m – good enough for second place behind Lilo & Stitch, and above Ballerina.

This eighth Mission: Impossible film fell 45% at the North American box office and 47% at international holdover markets. That rate of erosion is almost identical to Lilo & Stitch’s.

China led international markets at the weekend with an estimated $10.4m in its second session, taking the total there to $47.5m.

In cumulative totals, China leads the international pack, ahead of UK/Ireland ($27.8m), Japan ($23.4m), South Korea ($20.5m) and France ($17.7m).

The Final Reckoning’s $450.4m global total compares with an almost-identical $448.5m for 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One after three weekends of play.

Dead Reckoning Part One reached $571.1m worldwide. The franchise is led by 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout ($791.1m not including rereleases).

‘Housefull 5’ lands with $16m

Housefull 5 – the latest in the Indian comedy franchise that began with Housefull in 2010 – has opened with an estimated $16.3m from 23 markets, landing in fifth place on the worldwide weekend chart.

The murder-mystery film, which is set aboard a luxury cruise ship, is released in two versions – Housefull 5A and Housefull 5B – each with a different climactic killer reveal. The ensemble cast includes Akshay Jumar, Abhishek Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt.

In 2019, Housefull 4 opened with a reported 53 crore rupees – $6.2m at current exchange rates. Total worldwide box office was reported at 296 crore rupees ($34.6m).

Tarun Mansukhani joins the franchise as director of Housefull 5, co-writing with Farhad Samji, who directed and co-wrote Housefull 4, and jointly directed (with his brother Sajid Samji) 2016’s Housefull 3, also co-writing.