Will the public care about the world of “John Wick” without Nunchuck Nunchucks throat killer, depicted by Keanu Reeves through four films, like the star of the series?
Lionsgate will discover it this weekend as “Ballerina», A spin-off with Ana de Armas as a dancer who makes a punch, opens in theaters on Friday. The film is targeting a fair start of $ 28 million to $ 30 million on 3,400 North American locations during its first release weekend. “Ballerina” seems to add an additional $ 30 million from 82 international office markets.
It is a drop in the basic series, which has gained popularity since the original “John Wick” opened its doors at 14 million dollars in 2014. From there, each new entry improved on the latest at the box office with “John Wick: Chapter 2” in 2017 at 30.4 million dollars, 2019 “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parebellum” launch at 56.8 million dollars and $ 56.8 From “John Wick: Chapter 4” Dubuting for a series 8 million and 2023’s “John Wick: Chapter 4” beginner for a brake series. million.
Although Reeves appears in “Ballerina”, which takes place between the events of the third and fourth payments “John Wick”, the last action thriller focuses on the character of Armas called Eve Macarro. She is a dancer who is starting to train as an assassin to take revenge on the death of her father. Since the film is not a direct and Eve Macarro sequel is new in the universe “John Wick”, “Ballerina” should not reach the same heights of the box office as the main franchise. The branch was just as expensive, however, costing about $ 90 million to produce.
As for criticism, well, lionsgate encouraged film criticism to keep On the sharing of “critical social feeling” until June 4, two weeks after their appearance to display “enthusiasm without spoiler” on X and in other platforms. The studio plans to keep Widen the cinematographic universe With “John Wick 5”, as well as the spin-off revolving around the blind assassin of Donnie Yen Caine and an animated prequel film.
“Ballerina” may not be able to dethrone Disney “Lilo & Stitch” in the national box office charts. The live restart, which was n ° 1 for two consecutive weekends, aims at 30 to 35 million dollars in its third framework. “Lilo & Stitch” generated $ 280 million at national level and a blockbuster 613 million dollars Globally since the Memorial Day weekend and seeks to become the first version of the year of a billion dollars.
Elsewhere in the box office charts, the Wes Anderson spy saga “the Phoenician program” will try to transform its independent success in a more common call. The film, with Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threrapleton, Rice Ahmed, Tom Hanks and Benedict Cumberbatch, opened last weekend in a limited version and will bring figures to a single figure while the film extends to 1,500 North American theaters from Friday.
So far, the summer box office has been hot with overall revenues up 25% compared to last year, according to Comscore. However, theatrical brushes remain down 27% compared to 2019 – although it is a difficult metric to match because “Captain Marvel” and “Avengers: Endgame” had already exceeded $ 1 billion at this stage of the year. Cinema operators are looking for “Jurassic World Rebirth”, “F1” by Brad Pitt, “Fantastic Four: The First Steps” by Marvel, “Superman” and other superproductions to come to stimulate the attendance of something that looks like pre-pale times.
