When you made over $100 million on your opening weekend and the competition for your second weekend is sparse, it’s no surprise when you retain the top spot. That’s the case for Lilo & Stitch, Disney’s latest addition to the ‘we don’t need it but nostalgia is a powerful mistress’ canon. Even with a 56.9% drop from its opening weekend, the movie still earned $63 million. That brings its domestic total to over $280 million. That’s about $100 million more than Disney/Marvel’s Thunderbolts*/The New Avengers has made in five weeks. The other Disney live-action remake, Snow White, has limped to $87.2 million after 11 weeks. Oof.
Still at number two is Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning with $27.3 million. The final entry in Tom Cruise’s stunt spectacular is now at $353.8 million worldwide, which is great, but this is also a movie with a reported $353 million budget, so it’s going to need to hang on for more than a few weeks to break into the black.
New at number three is Karate Kid: Legends, which unites the original and reboot for some crossover fun. It earned $21 million from 3,809 locations, which is solid but a little below the expectations of Sony Pictures.
A24’s latest horror movie Bring Her Back debuted at number five with $7,081,501. That was enough to put it over Sinners, now in its seventh week of release but with a comfortable $267 million to its name domestically. That means it’s now the eighth highest-grossing film of 2025 so far, ahead of both Final Destination Bloodlines and Snow White.
Time for some K-pop fun. J-Hope is part of the mega-band BTS. His concert film, succinctly titled j-hope Tour ‘Hope on the Stage’ in Japan: Live Viewing earned $939,173 from 631 places, placing it at number ten.
Peppa Pig is a big sister. This has become worldwide front-page news. They turned it into a cinematic event with Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience. If you’re child-free like me, this whole story probably baffles you. I think it’s part of a strategy to start a war with Bluey. And yes, people did take their kids to the movies to meet a cartoon piglet and her sibling. This thing made $689,817. It outearned the newest Wes Anderson movie!
Okay, let’s be fair here. The Phoenician Scheme made $570,000, but it also got that gross from only six cinemas. That’s a per-venue average of $95,000. That’s ridiculous. But Anderson is a big enough name to pull in those kind of numbers. He’s a true big-name director. Wait for this thing to open wide and see it keep up that momentum.
The Samurai thriller Tornado took in $130,000 from 412 cinemas, and the French thriller Ghost Trail grossed $5,600 from four cinemas.
This coming week sees the release of the John Wick spin-off Ballerina, the expansion of The Phoenician Scheme, and the exorcism horror The Ritual.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
