Box Office Report: At the Ballet

As we’ve discussed many times before, in a battle between a family movie and an adult-oriented one, the safe big money bet is always on the former. Even in its third week of release, Lilo & Stitch, the latest Disney live-action remake, is holding onto the top spot with relative ease. It brought in $32.5 million, which brings its domestic gross to over $335.7 million so far. It’s soaring up the top ten of 2025 and is comfortably at number three in the list of the highest earners of the year so far, with over $772.5 million in the bank. Can it get past $951 million to beat A Minecraft Movie? We’ll see. Can Jack Black’s blocky party inch its way to the $1 billion mark? That seems less likely as it leaves more and more theatres.

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina might be the most cumbersome title of the year so far. The action spin-off with Ana de Armas has received generally positive reviews, albeit nothing as enthusiastic as what her dog-loving assassin contemporary pulls in. It wasn’t big enough to take down Stitch but it still earned $25 million from 3,409 locations. It cost a reported $80 - 90 million and has $51 million to its name internationally so far. This franchise is a sound investment.

Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme expanded its release to over 1,600 theatres and saw a 1,015% increase in its gross. That was enough to lift it to number six in the chart with $6.25 million. Reviews for this one have been typically positive for Anderson, although not as eager or raving as they were for Asteroid City. But Wes is his own industry and works by his own rules. He gets his films made with big A-List casts and has his devotees the world over. Have you pre-ordered that Criterion boxset yet?

At number eight is the anime movie Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye with $3.096 million from 1,085 cinemas. A few places behind, at number 11, is Dangerous Animals, a new addition to the shark movie canon, with $1,533,333.

Kevin Smith’s Dogma, his best movie (fight me), turned 25 this year, so it received an anniversary re-release to ease the wounded hearts of many a Gen X-er or older millennial. The fans came out to praise it, and it earned $978,492 from 700 places.

The Life of Chuck, Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of a Stephen King short story, won the prestigious audience award at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. That’s typically a sign that it’ll go on to major awards success. So, it was a surprise when distributor Neon decided to hold the film for the following Summer. Can it be the sleeper hit of the season after a successful festival run, not unlike Sing Sing? In its opening week, it grossed $216,031 from 16 locations.

In further limited release news: I Don’t Understand You, a comedy starring Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells that is apparently not a live-action Big Mouth spin-off, brought in $164,213 from 253 cinemas; Japanese animation Dragon Heart: Adventures Beyond This World earned $13,514 from three locations; documentary We Are Guardians, about the indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon, took in $6,300 from one place; and and The Last Twinsa documentary on survivors of the Nazi experiments of Josef Mengele, grossed $5,370.

This coming week sees the release of the rom-com Materialists and the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon.

You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.