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Time of India
9 hours ago
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Karate Kid Legends box office collection day 4: Jackie Chan's film earns only 65% of what Thunderbolts made on its first Monday
Karate Kid Legends box office collection day 4: Karate Kid Legends, which hit the screens on May 30, opened to a decent response at the Indian box office and earned Rs 1.6 crore (nett) on the first day. It then witnessed some growth over the weekend but crashed on its first Monday, June 2. Karate Kid Legends is a martial arts drama directed by Jonathan Entwistle. Karate Kid Legends sinks on first Monday Jackie Chan is in the limelight because of his latest release Karate Kid Legends, which hit the screens in India amid fanfare on May 30. It took a decent start but then tanked on its first Monday. According to Sacnilk, a trade website, it earned Rs 77 lakh in India on June 2. The figure is nearly 69% lower than the Rs 2.35 crore it earned on Sunday (June 1). Here is the day-wise breakdown: Day 1: Rs 1.6 crore Day 2: Rs 2.39 crore Day 3: Rs 2.35 crore Day 4: Rs 77 lakh. The total collection stands at Rs 7.11 crore. Karate Kid Legends received mixed reviews with critics lauding the performances but panning the 'outdated' storyline. This is one of the main reasons, it wasn't able to sustain on Monday. Interestingly, Karate Kid Legends has failed to match the performance of Thunderbolts. The Marvel Movie, which was released on a Thursday, earned Rs 1.18 crore on its first Monday. It went on to collect Rs 22 crore (approx) in its full run. The film had an edge over the new Karate Kid movie because of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's popularity in India. Moreover, its star Florence Pugh also enjoys a following among fans because of her work in Oppenheimer. About Thunderbolt Legends Karate Kid Legends is a martial arts drama written by Rob Lieber. The movie revolves around a Kung Fu prodigy who tries to upgrade his skills for an illustrious competition. Karate Kid Legends stars Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, and Ben Wang. Dominic Lewis serves as the music director.
Tom's Guide
a day ago
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- Tom's Guide
When is 'Karate Kid: Legends' coming to streaming? Here's our best guess
It's been decades since 'The Karate Kid' crane-kicked its way into pop culture history, and now the beloved franchise is back with a brand-new chapter. 'Karate Kid: Legends' hit theaters on May 30, raking in $21 million at the domestic box office during its opening weekend. While it didn't manage to top 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' or Disney's 'Lilo & Stitch' live-action remake, it still packed enough punch to get fans talking. Directed by Jonathan Entwistle, 'Legends' brings together martial arts icons Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio alongside a new generation hero — Li Fong, played by the talented Ben Wang. The result is a fast-paced, feel-good action-comedy that doesn't aim for perfection, but hits its stride with charm. Sure, it could've used more time with its legendary masters and a little breathing room between brawls, but thanks to Wang's charismatic lead performance, 'Karate Kid: Legends' earns its spot in the franchise. So, when can you catch all the action from the comfort of your own home? Here's our best guess at when 'Karate Kid: Legends' could be available to stream. Sony hasn't confirmed when 'Karate Kid: Legends' will be available to stream, but we can make an educated guess based on the studio's recent 2025 release schedule. So far this year, Sony has followed a fairly consistent PVOD pattern of about 4 to 5 weeks after a movie's theatrical debut. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. For example, 'Until Dawn' hit theaters on April 25 and arrived on PVOD just under a month later, on May 23. 'Heart Eyes' had a similar turnaround, going from theaters on February 7 to PVOD on March 4 (a 26-day window). 'Paddington in Peru' took slightly longer, premiering February 14 and hitting digital platforms by April 1 (a gap of about six and a half weeks). Given that 'Karate Kid: Legends' was released on May 30, a similar release window could point to a potential PVOD debut around Tuesday, July 8, 2025. However, it's important to note that these dates are purely speculative and could change based on how well the movie performs in the coming weeks. Following its PVOD release, 'Karate Kid: Legends' is expected to make its streaming debut on Netflix, thanks to Sony's ongoing Pay 1 deal with the platform. Historically, Sony titles appear on Netflix around 3 to 4 months after their theatrical release, specifically on a Thursday. Based on that trend, I predict 'Karate Kid: Legends' to arrive on Netflix sometime between late August and early September 2025. A rough estimate would be around Thursday, September 4, 2025, keeping in line with Sony's typical release pattern. Again, this date could change depending on the success of this standalone sequel and whether Sony wants to push for an earlier streaming debut. So, if you're waiting to stream the latest karate showdown from the comfort of your home, late summer to early fall is your best bet.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Karate Kid Legends box office collection day 2: Jackie Chan's film witnesses 29% growth, earns Rs 2.06 crore
Karate Kid Legends box office collection day 2: Karate Kid Legends hit the screens on May 30 and opened to a decent response at the Indian box office. It earned Rs 1.6 crore (nett) on the first day despite receiving mixed reviews. The martial arts drama witnessed some growth on its first Saturday (May 31), emerging as the top choice of the franchise's ardent fans. Karate Kid Legends witnesses growth on first Saturday Karate Kid Legends, starring the legendary Jackie Chan, has made a decent impact at the box office despite failing to impress critics. According to Sacnilk, a trade website, it earned Rs 2.06 crore on the second day. This figure is nearly 29% higher than the Rs 1.6 crore it made on the opening day. Here is the day-wise breakdown: Day 1: Rs 1.6 crore Day 2: Rs 2.06 crore The film's total collection stands at Rs 3.66 crore. Karate Kid Legends holds a rating of 58% on the aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, which indicates mixed reviews. It remains to be seen whether the average word-of-mouth affects the film on weekdays. Is Karate Kid Legends available on OTT Karate Kids Legends is currently not available on any streaming platform. It will, however, eventually premiere on Netflix. The streaming platform has a deal with Sony, the company behind the Karate Kid franchise. Karate Kids Legends is expected to premiere on OTT in September but the official date is yet to be announced. Karate Kid Legends is a martial arts drama directed by Jonathan Entwistle. The film revolves around a Kung Fu prodigy who tries enhance his skills to take part in a prestigious competition. The latest Karate Kid film stars Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, and Ben Wang. Dominic Lewis serves as the music director.
Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
‘Karate Kid: Legends' Director Jonathan Entwistle on Navigating ‘Cobra Kai' and the Test Screening-Inspired Epilogue
On the heels of Cobra Kai's 65-episode run, Karate Kid: Legends director Jonathan Entwistle strived to restore the cinematic identity of the beloved franchise. The British filmmaker — who's most known for helming idiosyncratic streaming series such as End of the F***ing World and I Am Not Okay With This — designed his feature directorial debut to unite Karate Kid and Cobra Kai fans from every generation. That included those viewers who were raised on Jackie Chan's 2010 standalone remake of The Karate Kid. To pull off this creative merger, Entwistle and screenwriter Rob Lieber realized that they could utilize the Miyagi family dojo scene from John G. Avildsen's The Karate Kid Part II (1986) to connect Chan's story with the Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita-led mothership franchise. More from The Hollywood Reporter Ralph Macchio Insisted That 'Karate Kid: Legends' Delay Its Release Until After 'Cobra Kai' Ralph Macchio on Decision to Return to 'Karate Kid' Films and Future of the Franchise 40 Years In Sony Is Using Roblox to Market 'Karate Kid: Legends' to the Next Gen (Exclusive) The Part II scene established that 400 years earlier, Mr. Miyagi's (Morita) ancestor, Shimpo Miyagi, spent some time in China before returning home to Okinawa, Japan. The Karate Kid: Legends brain trust then used animation to flesh out how Shimpo was taken in by Mr. Han's (Chan) forebears and taught kung fu. He then founded Miyagi-Do Karate to combine both families' unique martial arts, creating a familial friendship that endured all the way through Mr. Han and Mr. Miyagi. Entwistle unearthed a great deal of Karate Kid Part II footage to make sure he left no stone unturned in uniting and retconning the franchise. '[The Part II] piece had been the inspiration for the entirely different team back in 2010. They crafted that movie's concept using this beat or this notion of the Hans and the Miyagis,' Entwistle tells The Hollywood Reporter in support of Karate Kid: Legends' May 30 theatrical release. 'So we went back into the vault and into the archives to find all the scraps of film from that [Karate Kid Part II] sequence.' Entwistle's film is set three years after the events of the franchise's hit Netflix series, Cobra Kai, as Chan's Mr. Han asks Macchio's original 'Karate Kid,' Daniel LaRusso, to help train his great-nephew, Li Fong (Ben Wang), for a New York City-set karate tournament. However, the film was originally going to hit theaters before the show's February 2025 series finale. Thus, Macchio soon became adamant that the film should delay itself for the sake of the Cobra Kai audience, and Entwistle is ultimately glad that the studio didn't risk any confusion. 'We are not a Cobra Kai movie in any way, shape, or form, and that was never the intention. Cobra Kai is so important within the overall gamut that it was only right to let it have its absolute air to breathe,' Entwistle says. 'I saw no point in confusing [the audience] with a Karate Kid movie that sits right next to the end of Cobra Kai. So it was really, really good, certainly as a Cobra Kai fan, that it had its moment and was allowed to finish. And now it's like, 'Hey guys, we've got a different story over here. Let's just keep going.'' One of the franchise's many hallmarks is that most of the films conclude on a triumphant freeze frame. Entwistle's film does in fact have one as well, but test screenings prompted him to add an epilogue, one that includes a surprise cameo that is discussed later on in this interview's brief spoiler section. 'The movie ended, solidly ended, on a freeze frame for such a long time until we started to preview it and realized that people wanted a flavor of, 'Well, where's Jackie? Where is everybody?'' Entwistle shares. 'But we still wanted to maintain the ending with the freeze frame. And it indeed remains in the movie, albeit with the logo that plays afterwards [until the coda].' Below, during a recent conversation with THR, Entwistle also discusses the tall order of casting a Peter Parker or Miles Morales-like Li Fong. *** How did the guy behind pitch black comedy series like and end up making a movie? It was me following a dream to make a real theatrical motion picture. That should really be every director's end goal. I was enticed by the idea of being able to make a big theatrical movie and bringing my tone, my craft and my team. I had my cinematographer [Justin Brown] and production designer [Maya Sigel] from all of my shows, and I was actually very excited to bring the martial arts element back to the big screen. I saw this as a really fun opportunity to do some fights and do some action in a different way than you normally see delivered in this type of movie. When you signed on, were Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan on board already? Or were there still some details to hammer out? Yeah, at the time when I came on board, it was the how. We knew that we really wanted to try and find a way to turn the spotlight back to the theatrical versions of what this story was, specifically with Columbia Pictures. So it was a case of, 'Well, what's a cool way to be able to do this? How can we play with that and actually still tell a new chapter in the story or a new graphic novel in the sequence?' And when was it realized that 's Miyagi family dojo scene could be retconned in order to fold Jackie Chan's 2010 standalone reboot into the mothership? It was when we realized that [the Part II] piece had been the inspiration for the entirely different team back in 2010. They crafted that movie's concept using this beat or this notion of the Hans and the Miyagis. So we went back into the vault and into the archives to find all the scraps of film from that [The Karate Kid Part II] sequence. There were so many different iterations. There were pieces of a Blu-ray and some television versions that had been scanned at some point. So there were all these different kinds of pieces of how the movie was made, and it was fun to be able to put all that together. takes place three years after 's series finale, but was anything off limits with regard to ? For example, if your movie wanted to use Cobra Kai for the villain's dojo, would that have caused all sorts of problems? We could use anything that's in the movies. We could have used and touched on any concept that was in the original movies. So we could always use Daniel and Miyagi, but any elements that are Cobra Kai-specific are not a Columbia Pictures property. So you could've gone with Cobra Kai for the villain's dojo, but would that East Coast expansion have required too much exposition? Yeah, I think so, for sure. Cobra Kai had also ended its run, and we knew very much that we were in tandem with the end of that piece. Cobra Kai is Johnny Lawrence's story, which is one of the things that makes it so fun and so good. And that having wrapped up, I was just like, 'Well, that exists. I have that show. It's there. I can always watch it.' And then I was like, 'Let's just keep going with another novel in the long sequence.' That allowed us to connect back to the big screen after living on television for a very, very long time. I was like, 'What's a 90-minute version of this story that we can do on the big screen for all the audiences?' There's really three audiences: the Karate Kid audience, the Cobra Kai audience and the moviegoing audience, which is actually a huge, huge piece. So it was very important for me to be audience-first and make this a great experience in the theater. I enjoyed the show, don't get me wrong, but I definitely missed the cinematic flourishes of the films. That cliffside helicopter shot in is one of the most beautiful shots ever put to screen, and then there's the indelible Bill Conti score. So it sounds like you were glad to bring some of those qualities back. A hundred percent. I wanted all the elements to not just feel theatrical, but also cinematic, and we got that opportunity to do that. We built lots of sets. The large pieces of New York are set builds, such as the pizza shop and the neighboring alleyway. We had a classical approach to the filmmaking, and I wanted New York to feel like a cozy movie New York. That's very much a filmic approach where you don't need to bother with the specifics. We're not running around on location just shooting things; we're crafting everything. The same goes for the music. We wanted to make sure that the music was score-based and bespoke. I firmly believe that television should consist of tracks, and movies should be score. A lot of the things that feel like tracks in this movie are actually score, and it was really key to me to blend themes with the original Conti orchestral approach. We recorded in Burbank with a full orchestra, which is a filmic approach to finishing the movie. So there was an overall analog approach to the fight sequences, the set builds, the cinematography and the color palette. It was all crafted with an eye toward revitalizing the franchise cinematically. 's final season and filmed at roughly the same time, so I figured that you killed two birds with one stone and shot the Miyagi house scenes on the show's Atlanta set. But you actually built your own set in Montreal? Yeah, we rebuilt the Miyagi house in Montreal. [Cobra Kai] was shooting at the same time, and their [Miyagi house] is a Cobra Kai set. For the motion picture, we went back to the original version of Miyagi's house [in The Karate Kid] and where it would be today. Sadly, the original house [in Canoga Park] is now gone. It was lost in a fire. [The next question contains spoilers for ' mid-credit scene.] The Miyagi house-set coda featuring Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William 'Billy' Zabka) is why I initially assumed you utilized 's infrastructure. How did that cameo come together? It was just the perfect way to round everything out. It became quite clear that we were putting all of the pieces together and that Cobra Kai would have ended by the time audiences see this. And like I said, that's Johnny's story. So to bring the two of them together to round that out just felt really perfect. Billy came [to set], and a lot of it was improv. A lot of that was just Ralph and Billy. After so many years of working together, they could just do their thing together. So we just wanted to capture that, and we wanted to put that at the end of the movie. This is by no means the end of Daniel LaRusso's story at all. But this movie was an opportunity to round out that piece and to physically hand over something from Daniel to Li Fong, but also Ralph to Ben [Wang]. They had a real relationship that I think was very, very sweet. So shooting those guys in the original Miyagi house, albeit the rebuilt version, was really quite special. [Spoiler talk for ' has now concluded.] The original plan was to release in 2024 for the 40th anniversary of , but the strikes got in the way. Ralph then felt passionately about it releasing after 's February 2025 finale, especially since takes place three years later. Do you like where you ultimately ended up, release date-wise? I think it's very important to piece out the stories in the correct way. We are not a Cobra Kai movie in any way, shape, or form, and that was never the intention. Cobra Kai is so important within the overall gamut that it was only right to let it have its absolute air to breathe. So I saw no point in confusing [the audience] with a Karate Kid movie that sits right next to the end of Cobra Kai. So it was really, really good, certainly as a Cobra Kai fan, that it had its moment and was allowed to finish. And now it's like, 'Hey guys, we've got a different story over here. Let's just keep going.' It's nothing but a positive addition to the overall world. Ben Wang's casting feels like a needle in a haystack, and as one of your producers said, he really does have a Michael J. Fox quality about him. You apparently auditioned 10,000 candidates for the role of Li Fong. Were you looking more for actors who you could teach kung fu? Or martial artists who you could train to act? I was looking for the person who could do it all. We needed a native Mandarin speaker and someone who understood what it was to live in America, but also someone who was a fantastic actor and could do the martial arts. For me, the Li character was very much a Peter Parker or Miles Morales-like character. So that was really important for me, both in terms of the martial arts and the tone of the performance. And when I first saw Ben, I was like, 'Well, there's a Marty McFly.' I joke that I wanted Morty from Rick and Morty in the way that he is like Michael J. Fox. So Ben had what I was looking for in an actor, but the martial arts element of the movie was so important that I just wanted to make sure that we were actually able to do real in-camera stuff. So the guy had to be able to do it himself, and there was no question about that. Much to the studio's annoyance, I was forever saying, 'The guy's got to be able to fight.' And so when I saw Ben, I was like, 'Please be able to do the martial arts.' He'd been in Destin's [Daniel Cretton] show, American Born Chinese, and once I saw the tapes, I was like, 'Okay, this is great.' He then got trained 24/7. We started to work with the stunt team and with Jackie's team, and it was next level. Ben does a huge percentage of the stunts himself, and you can see that in the movie The dragon kick is the crane kick of this movie. Who decides what that signature move of the movie is going to be? Weirdly, it was led by the approach to the fights. I wanted to make sure that they felt real and in your face with as much physical contact as possible. So our wonderful stunt coordinator, Peng Zhang, went out and found this fantastic kid, A.J., who could do the move he was looking for without any wires or VFX. He wanted someone who could do it from scratch so that we could shoot it and choreograph around it. We were like, 'For a kid who knows kung fu, what would that move look like when blended with karate?' So we worked backwards to where it became the dragon kick that Li's brother could do [but he couldn't]. Mr. Han and Daniel LaRusso aren't the only legends in this movie. ' Charlie Conway is also in the mix. That said, seeing Joshua Jackson play a dad to a teenage daughter (Sadie Stanley) and be described as 'old' caused me to have an existential crisis. Can you believe that this much time has passed to where Josh is now playing an 'old' dad? (Laughs.) No, I grew up with Dawson's Creek, and I'm a huge, huge fan. [Writer's Note: Entwistle also has a Mighty Ducks jersey hanging in his office.] Josh was probably most annoyed by the number of times I quoted Dawson's Creek to him whilst we were shooting. So he's very well-versed in that, and he's absolutely wonderful in the movie. He really committed to the fight sequences and the boxing. That is Josh. There's no stunt double in that entire sequence. He takes every single punch. He really committed because he saw how hard the kids were working in martial arts, and when Jackie Chan shows up, you take every punch you can. So the millennial in me is enjoying the Josh renaissance, and it's been an absolute pleasure working with him on this movie. He brought a wonderful softness and a little glint in the eye to his character. He plays the man being taught by the kid [Ben Wang's Li Fong]. So he's got to be able to handle that, but he's not being taught kicks and punches. He's being taught that as a former boxer who now makes pizzas, he can still get back in the ring, and that's quite a nice sentiment. Knowing you were making a movie, was the concluding freeze frame a prerequisite for you? Oh, a thousand percent. The movie ended, solidly ended, on a freeze frame for such a long time until we started to preview it and realized that people wanted a flavor of, 'Well, where's Jackie? Where is everybody?' But we still wanted to maintain the ending with the freeze frame. We shot that moment knowing it would be the freeze frame, and we did all of these different versions of how the freeze frame could be. Was it a still photograph that [Wyatt Oleff's] Alan takes at the end? There were all these different versions, but the freeze frame was always going to be the final moment from the get-go. And it indeed remains in the movie, albeit with the logo that plays afterwards [until the coda]. ***Karate Kid: Legends is now playing in movie theaters nationwide. 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Yahoo
3 days ago
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Jackie Chan Didn't Train for ‘Karate Kid: Legends': ‘I Don't Need to Anymore. I've Been Training Every Day for 64 Years'
Jackie Chan is back. Not that he ever went away, but Chan returns as Han in 'Karate Kid: Legends,' the latest installment in the film franchise. This time around, he's in China mentoring his young nephew, Li (Ben Wang). When Li is forced to move to New York City, he finds himself tussling with a bully at school, and winds up in the Five Boroughs Tournament. Han comes along to train Li in martial arts, while Danny LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), the original Karate Kid, arrives from California to teach Li karate. More from Variety Box Office: 'Karate Kid: Legends' Chops Off $7.5 Million Opening Day, 'Lilo & Stitch' and 'Mission: Impossible' Still Leading Charts Michael Cera Got to Meet Jackie Chan on Their Press Tours, but 'I Think He Thought I Was a Competition Winner': 'Who Is This Person? What's Going On?' 'Karate Kid: Legends' Star Ben Wang Did Most of His Own Stunts in That Final Fight: 'He Took Some Hard Hits' 'I feel like this film understands a really specific and fundamental difference between Hong Kong martial arts, which is all about the choreography and the moves, and American martial arts where it's all about basically punching,' says director Jonathan Entwistle. Chan, who first joined the franchise in the 2010 'Karate Kid' starring Jaden Smith, says he didn't need any training for this new entry. The 71-year-old says, 'I don't need to anymore. I've been training every day for 64 years. I've been fighting, fighting, fighting.' Chan has been acting since the 1960s and is a legend of fight choreography. He performs all of his own stunts 'Karate Kid: Legends.' But he's slowed down with age. Chan laughs, 'I'm not liked I used to be when I was 20, and could do a triple kick in the sky. Now, I do one kick.' But, it's still all him. Chan says he passed on valuable advice to Wang. 'I said, 'Ben, we do have a double for you, but you should do your own thing. The audience respects you more. When you use a double, you become lazy.'' In contrast, the 25-year-old Wang had a stricter training program. 'I got a systematic ass-kicking,' Wang says. While much of Li's journey is about building confidence in his moves, Wang says he spent a month and half before shooting even began working with the stunt team. 'We kept going. It was five days of formal training, from morning to night, and then, I trained by myself on the weekend.' Wang says the team had 90 days to get him to the point when he could 'look okay doing a fight scene with Jackie Chan.' Says Wang, 'When Jackie showed up, he was nothing but helpful.' As for Macchio, even though Netflix's 'Cobra Kai' has ended, it didn't mean the end of Danny LaRusso. As soon as he finished that, he was on a plane to the set of 'Karate Kid: Legends.' But his training began before he even got to set. 'It was a different stunt team, and they sent me videos in advance, and I worked on certain pieces,' Macchio explains. When he finally did get to set, everything came together. He recalls that moment when he arrived. With Wang becoming the new Karate Kid, and the baton being passed on, Macchio smiles, 'I helped build the foundation to this house, but I felt like I was at somebody else's house.' What does Chan think of Wang? Chan beams with pride, 'He's like my young Jackie Chan.' And so, a new Karate Kid legend is born. Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in June 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts?
