Karate Child starring Ben Wang, Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio has amassed USD 74 million worldwide until Sunday, eighth June 2025. The movie had a staggered rollout and thus the drops week-on-week do not look dangerous. The film is at tempo to gross within the neighborhood of USD 110-120 million by the tip of its run and that’s first rate for a film with a USD 45 million finances with hardly USD 20 million spent on advertising. Nonetheless, for a Karate Child film, it has upset large time.
The Karate Child with Jaden Smith was a world sensation, redefining the enterprise of US-origin Karate movies. It grossed USD 359 million and was a bonafied blockbuster. Nonetheless, Karate Child: Legends shall finish its run grossing a 3rd of the 2010 movie. Adjusted for inflation, the hole is even larger.
The largest shock for Karate Child: Legends, not in a great way, is the tepid response in China. The film grossed solely USD 500k in its first weekend in China and within the lifetime, it could wrestle to hit even 1,000,000. For a movie having a maestro like Jackie Chan a part of it, the film needed to actually be doing higher.
Karate Child: Legends had one of the crucial underwhelming begins for a large launch on the US field workplace, placing up beneath USD 20 million over the primary weekend. It was affected by competitors from MI:8 and Lilo And Sew. The development suggests that it’s going to amass a most of USD 60 million in North America. The phrase of mouth for the movie was on the optimistic facet with it scoring an A- on Cinescore, suggesting beneficial evaluations. Sadly for the movie, the nice phrase of mouth has not transformed to robust collections.
It now must be seen if the Karate film blows up when it hits digital, or not. With some characters of Cobra Kai, the hit kungfu-karate present on Netflix, overlapping with the characters in Legends, there’s an opportunity that the audiences on OTT dig into it.
Karate Child: Legends performs in theatres now. Have you ever watched the film? If sure, what’s your view on it?
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