It is not really a mortality, but it is a battle for 2025 that improves on last year’s Cash office. “Mortal Kombat II“One of the more long -awaited autumn release in terms of genre film IP, moves from an edition in October 2025 until now opens in theaters on May 15, 2026.
It’s actually good for “Mortal Kombat II.” The film Going out of a stacked October and to a better place at the beginning of next summer where it can be a breakout hit. It is at least the feeling of several sources, which told IndieWire that the film moved as a response to the huge reception that the Video Games movie sequel received from both early test shows and from the recently released trailer, which has made record numbers for a red band trailer.
But for the checkout basically, it’s a bit of a knockout. “Mortal Kombat II” would probably not be a surprise hit of billions of dollars, in fact the studio projects that within a time frame in May next year could make similar figures as this summer “Final destination: Blood lines ”didto get $ 138 million domestic and $ 301 million globally. And it is perhaps a conservative appreciation for a large piece of video game IP.
To take it out from 2025 but only leave a fewer film with the sleeping potential and the shot in the arm exhibitors really need. From the last weekend, the domestic cash register of $ 5.88 billion is only five percent before where 2024 was at the same point last year, according to data from Comscore. But exhibitors depended on a movie like “Mortal Kombat II” to keep the box strong and see some growth up from last year’s $ 8.5 billion, itself from an $ 8.9 billion in 2023. Two straight years of reductions and it will be more difficult to make the case that a day’s theaters will recover to pre-pandemic levels.
Some of the other tent poles keep an eye on 2025 include “Faith: Legacy”, “Springsteen: Deliver me from Nowhere”, “The Running Man”, “Wicked: For Good”, “Zootopia 2”, “Five nights on Freddy’s 2” and “Avatar: Fire and Ash.” At least one of these must surpass, or something else must show up, if 2025 will keep up with last year.
It is difficult to blame Warner Bros. and new line too much to want to move “Mortal Kombat II.” When it comes to dating WB’s “Sinners”, “Final Destination”, “The Conjuring” follower and “Superman”, “Mortal Kombat” was the outlier on the calendar, torn into October even though it is not a horror movie and even if there was a little barometer about how the sequel could occur. The first “Mortal Kombat” or the restarted “Mortal Kombat” which is after the 90s films based on Fighting-Video Games-was a pandemic edition in 2021 and earned $ 84.4 million all over the world, a respectable number given that it also opened day and date at HBO Max (Like all WB’s second 2021 editions). At that time, it was the largest HBO Max artist ever, even bigger than “Dune” or “Godzilla vs. Kong” the same year.
So when “Mortal Kombat II” put up what we hear was very strong test results, it felt like there was a lot of unused up there that the movie would not have reached if it opened this fall. It is hard to ignore when looking at Year Warner Bros. Have had 2025Between films such as “Minecraft”, “sinner” and “weapons” exceed all expectations. It’s just a shame that “Mortal Kombat” doesn’t get their own shot on adding WB’s banner year.
