{"id":38671,"date":"2025-05-09T14:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/?p=38671"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:04:10","slug":"long-range-forecast-karate-kid-legends-caps-off-a-hot-may-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/long-range-forecast-karate-kid-legends-caps-off-a-hot-may-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Range Forecast: KARATE KID: LEGENDS Caps Off a Hot May Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe to our&nbsp;<strong><em>FREE<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;email newsletters to be notified of our latest updates in pre-release tracking, box office analysis, and industry news.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https:\/\/share.transistor.fm\/e\/c1760afe\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-long-range-forecast-may-30-2025\">Long Range Forecast \u2014 May 30, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-karate-kid-legends-sony-columbia\"><em>Karate Kid: Legends<\/em> | Sony \/ Columbia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-domestic-opening-weekend-range-35m-45m\">Domestic Opening Weekend Range: $35M &#8211; $45M<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Rescheduled to follow on the heels of the final season of hit streaming series <em>Cobra Kai<\/em>, the cross-generational appeal of the <em>Karate Kid<\/em> franchise could generate a solid mid-summer hit for Sony. Initially scheduled for release in June 2024, <em>Karate Kid: Legends<\/em> was first pushed back due to that year&#8217;s Hollywood labor union strikes. The film&#8217;s second release date, in December 2024, was altered to this May so that the film would hit theaters after the final season of <em>Cobra Kai<\/em>, which finished up its run on Netflix earlier this year. Stars from Cobra Kai will appear in the film, along with original <em>Karate Kid<\/em> Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan from the 2010 reboot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, <em>The Karate Kid: Legends<\/em>&#8216; December 2024 release date was taken by <em>Kraven the Hunter<\/em>, which was swallowed up by the crowded holiday slate and topped out at just over $25M domestically. Our panel of analysts predicts a higher amount just for <em>Karate Kid: Legends<\/em>&#8216; opening frame, when its main competition for ticket sales will be holdovers from Memorial Day weekend (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/long-range-forecast-paramount-looks-for-memorial-day-magic-with-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning\/\">Mission: Impossible &#8211; The Final Reckoning<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/long-range-forecast-lilo-stitch\/\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/a><\/em>, <em>The Last Rodeo<\/em>, and the wide expansion of A24&#8217;s <em>Friendship<\/em>); no other family-targeted wide release hits theaters until mid-June, with Universal&#8217;s live-action remake of <em>How to Train Your Dragon<\/em> followed a week later by Pixar&#8217;s <em>Elio<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the last decade, there have been a fair number of nostalgia-heavy, family-targeted franchise entries to hit theaters in the weeks immediately following Memorial Day, though unlike <em>Karate Kid: Legends<\/em> they tend to be either animation\/live-action hybrids (2024&#8217;s <em>The Garfield Movie<\/em> &#8211; $24M domestic opening; 2021&#8217;s<em> Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway<\/em> &#8211; $10M domestic opening) or films that involve heavy use of CGI (2016&#8217;s <em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows<\/em> &#8211; $35.3M domestic opening; 2023&#8217;s <em>Transformers: Rise of the Beasts<\/em> &#8211; $61M domestic opening). Other recent updates of &#8217;80s classics include 2016&#8217;s <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> ($46M domestic opening; $128.3M domestic total), 2021&#8217;s <em>Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire<\/em> ($44M domestic opening, $129.3M domestic total), 2018&#8217;s <em>The Predator <\/em>($24.6M domestic opening, $51M domestic total), 2015&#8217;s <em>Poltergeist<\/em> ($22.6M domestic opening, $47.4M domestic total), and last year&#8217;s<em> Beetlejuice Beetlejuice<\/em> ($111M domestic opening, $294.1M domestic total)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KARATE KID: LEGENDS - New Trailer (HD)\" width=\"798\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LhRXf-yEQqA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-tracking-updates-as-of-may-9\">Tracking Updates [as of May 9]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>5\/9<\/td><td><em>Clown in a Cornfield<\/em><\/td><td>$2M &#8211; $4M<\/td><td>IFC Films<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/9<\/td><td><em><em>Shadow Force<\/em><\/em><\/td><td>$2M &#8211; $4M<\/td><td>Lionsgate<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/9<\/td><td><em>Juliet &amp; Romeo<\/em><\/td><td>$2M &#8211; $4M<\/td><td>Briarcliff Entertainmenet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/16<\/td><td><em><em>Final Destination: Bloodlines<\/em><\/em><\/td><td>$50M &#8211; $60M<\/td><td>Warner Bros.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/16<\/td><td><em>Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/em><\/td><td>$2M &#8211; $4M<\/td><td>Lionsgate<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/23<\/td><td><em>Mission: Impossible &#8211; The Final Reckoning<\/em><\/td><td>$65M &#8211; $75M (3-Day)<br>$75M &#8211; $95M (4-Day)<\/td><td>Paramount<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/23<\/td><td><em>Friendship<\/em> (Wide)<\/td><td>$2M &#8211; $4M<\/td><td>A24<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/23<\/td><td><em>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em><\/td><td>Briarcliff Entertainment<\/td><td>Disney<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to our&nbsp;FREE&nbsp;email newsletters to be notified of our latest updates in pre-release tracking, box office analysis, and industry news. Long Range Forecast \u2014 May 30, 2025 Karate Kid: Legends | Sony \/ Columbia Domestic Opening Weekend Range: $35M &#8211; $45M Rescheduled to follow on the heels of the final season of hit streaming series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":38720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5755],"class_list":["post-38671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forecasts-tracking","tag-karate-kid-legends"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}