The latest installment in the “John Wick” series leaped into first position at the box office.
“From the World of John Wick: Ballerina,” pirouetted to the No. 1 spot Friday, its opener, raking in $10.65 million, according to The Numbers.
The thriller, which The Post said “has good fights, bad everything else,” is the fifth installment of the “John Wick” franchise starring Keanu Reeves — and features Ana de Armas as a ballerina who doubles as an assassin.
Landing in second was the live-action remake “Lilo & Stitch,” with sales of $9.3 million.
The film, which was slated to be a direct-to-streaming title on Disney+, went on to set the record as the biggest four-day Memorial Day weekend domestic opening of all time.
“I and the other filmmakers always believed that it could be a big, perfect summer blockbuster to go see on a huge screen,” its director, Dean Fleischer Camp, told Variety.
“I’m proud of how hard it delivers on that. It’s super funny, it’s action-packed, and it’s super emotional.”
Taking third was “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” with $4 million in revenue.
Tom Cruise’s stunts in the film just earned him the Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps by an individual.
“The star leapt out of a helicopter 16 times while strapped to a parachute pre-soaked in fuel and lit ablaze, before cutting away the charred remnants of the first chute and safely deploying a backup. No other actor or stuntman has come close to that amount of death-defying drops,” the record book stated on its website.
Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme,” which Slate called the filmmaker’s “worst yet,” was in fourth, with a $2.55 million dollar take.
“Karate Kid: Legends,” which The Post said was “awful,” fought its way to fifth, earning $2.45 million.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
