Long -distance forecast: Karate Kid: Legends caps from a hot maikass

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Long -distance forecast – May 30, 2025

Karate Kid: Legends | Sony / Columbia

Domestic opening weekends: USD 35 million – $ 45 million

Moved to follow the heels of the last season of the hit streaming series Cobra KaiThe cross -border attraction of the Karate Kid Franchise could create a solid mid-buzzer hit for Sony. Originally planned for the publication in June 2024, Karate Kid: Legends was pushed back for the first time due to this year’s Hollywood union strikes. The second publication date of the film in December 2024 was changed to this May so that the film would come to the cinemas after the last season Cobra Kaiwho ended his run on Netflix at the beginning of this year. Stars of Cobra Kai will appear in the film together with the original Karate Kid Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan from the restart 2010.

Ultimately, The Karate Kid: Legends‘December 2024 release date was taken by Kraven the hunterwhich was swallowed by the crowded holiday plate and was increased with a little more than 25 million US dollars in Germany. Our analyst body predicts a higher amount only for Karate Kid: Legends‘Opening framework when his main competition for the ticket sales of Memorial Day Weekend (Weekend (Memorial Day) is (Weekend) (Mission: impossible – the last billingPresent Lilo & StitchPresent The last rodeoand the large expansion of A24S friendship); No other family-run width publication will hit the live action remake of Universal until mid-June How to train your kite followed a week later by Pixar’s Elio.

In the past ten years there have been a whole series of nostalgia-family franchise entries to get into cinemas in the weeks immediately after the memorial day, if not as Karate Kid: Legends They are usually either animation/live action hybrids (2024 The Garfield film – 24 million US dollars domestic opening; 2021’s Peter Rabbit 2: The outlier – 10 million US dollars domestic opening) or films that contain a strong use of CGI (2016’s Teenage mutant ninja turtles: out of the shadows – USD 35.3 million domestic opening; 2023 Transformers: rise of the beasts – 61 million US dollars domestic opening). Further current updates of the 80s -classics are 2016 Ghostbusters (Domestic opening of $ 46 million; a total of $ 128.3 million), 2021 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Domestic opening of $ 44 million, a total of $ 129.3 million), 2018’s The predator ($ 24.6 million domestic opening, a total of $ 51 million), 2015 of 2015 poltergeist ($ 22.6 million domestic opening, a total of $ 47.4 million) and last year Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Domestic opening of $ 111 million, a total of $ 294.1 million)

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