John Wick Spinoff Ballerina Stumbles, Landing Lionsgate With $94M Quarterly Net Loss

A disappointing show from John Wick spinoff Ballerina has near TV and movie accumulation institution Lionsgate facing a $94 cardinal quarterly nett loss.

The Ana de Armas-starring movie opened connected June 6 to affirmative reviews, though failed to lucifer the container bureau of the main John Wick movies.

Set betwixt John Wick: Chapter 3 and 4, Ballerina introduces de Armas' quality Eve Macarro arsenic a dancer-turned-assassin, and features appearances by galore John Wick regulars specified arsenic Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, and — successful his last surface quality — the precocious Lance Reddick.

Ballerina adjacent features John Wick himself, Keanu Reeves, though lone successful a tiny role. And contempt this quality featuring successful pre-release trailers, it seems the actor's impermanent spot wasn't capable to person the franchise's accustomed crowds to crook upat theaters.

Ballerina ended its worldwide container bureau tally connected $132 million, versus a reported fund of $90 million. By comparison, John Wick: Chapter 4 made $447.3 million, connected a fund of $100 million.

Reacting to the company's latest fiscal results, Lionsgate brag Jon Feltheimer said the institution was "taking a fig of important steps toward returning to coagulated maturation successful fiscal 2027," with a trio of "major movie tentpoles" acceptable for the coming fiscal year, Variety reported, successful summation to an accrued fig of scripted TV series.

Upcoming Lionsgate productions see a caller Hunger Games movie adaptation based connected the franchise's latest prequel novel, Sunrise connected the Reaping, arsenic good arsenic a two-part sequel to The Passion of the Christ (no spoilers!).

As for the John Wick franchise, it remains unclear however Ballerina's show volition interaction plans for its aboriginal — oregon the erstwhile proposition that the movie could get a sequel.

Two further John Wick spinoffs are already successful development, including a franchise prequel and a side-story featuring Donnie Yen's quality of Caine. There are besides plans for a afloat John Wick: Chapter 5, though this inactive seems immoderate mode off. Last month, manager Chad Stahelski said helium was inactive trying to enactment retired a communicative for the sequel, successful bid to enactment astir the climactic ending of John Wick: Chapter 4.

"In spite of a dilatory start, Ballerina proves she belongs successful The World of John Wick with combat choreography that’s each spot arsenic originative (and fun) arsenic thing other the bid has fixed america and a communicative and quality that basal connected their own," IGN wrote successful our Ballerina review, which returned an 8/10 score.

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