Box office: Karate Kid: Legends can't knock Mission: Impossible out of the #2 spot

Also: Lilo & Stitch is already the 2nd-highest-grossing American movie of the year.

L to R: Ben Wang, Jackie Chan, and Ralph Macchio in Karate Kid: Legends.

A few of this week’s highlights:

• Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning held on to the top two spots, but had steeper second-week slides than most other live-action Disney-cartoon remakes and Tom Cruise movies, respectively. (Lilo & Stitch is already the 2nd-highest-grossing film of the year, though, behind A Minecraft Movie.)

• Karate Kid: Legends, which unites the Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan branches of the franchise for the first time ever, fell behind expectations, with less than half of what the previous Jackie Chan film opened to—and once you adjust for 36+ years of inflation, it fell behind the openings for the last two Ralph Macchio films, too.

• Final Destination Bloodlines is now the 3rd-highest-grossing R-rated horror film of the decade, and the highest-grossing R-rated horror franchise pic of the decade.

Fun fact: Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise and Karate Kid star Ralph Macchio co-starred in 1983’s The Outsiders. The last time they were in the top ten at the same time was in 1986, when Top Gun and The Karate Kid Part II were the two biggest movies of the summer. (There was also a near-miss in 1992, when Macchio’s My Cousin Vinny fell out of the top ten the same week Cruise’s Far and Away came out.)

It also strikes me that the top three films this week all have TV connections of one sort or another: Lilo & Stitch, which had one of the lowest budgets of any Disney-cartoon remake,¹ was originally developed for Disney+; Mission: Impossible is based on a 1960s TV series;² and the newest Karate Kid comes hot on the heels of Cobra Kai, a Netflix follow-up to the original films that just finished its six-season run.

And now, a few more stats and facts re: this week’s top ten, title by title: