Wiki News/'Karate Kid' Kills 'A-Team' and 'Shrek', while 'Sonic the Hedgehog' survives it's second weekend

The Karate Kid box office totals are already impressive, but Sonic X: Return to Soleanna is the only champion who can survive it's second weekend. Sonic X 4 took in another $25.1 million in 4,401 theaters. This is a big fall from it's huge opening day last weekend where it made $80.4 million from 4,391 theaters. It's total domestic gross is up to $226 million. It won't be lucky next weekend, because it will be killed by new movie release of Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 3, as of Megan Fox's new movie, Jonah Hex would not do well.

Meanwhile, The Karate Kid box office for Friday had them ahead of The A-Team and Shrek Forever After during its first day in theaters. The new incarnation of The Karate Kid opened on Friday, June 11th, and early box office reports have it earning an estimated $18.8 million. That's a pretty impressive total for the family film, especially up against the box office challengers in theaters right now. It also shows that Jackie Chan can still bring in some big box office dollars.

The Karate Kid is a new release starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, re-making the original story that was a fan favorite in the 1980's. It also marks the biggest opening that one of The Karate Kid films has grossed, surpassing the $12.6 million that The Karate Kid Part II made back in 1986. The original Karate Kid opened on far less screens, grossing just $5 million in its opening weekend, but still grossing $90.8 million before it left theaters. These numbers are all just domestic gross numbers.

It will be very interesting to see how the rest of the weekend plays out, but on Friday alone The Karate Kid ($18.8 million) almost doubled that of The A-Team ($9.65) in second place, and far out-distanced Shrek 4 ($4.4) in fourth place. Jaden Smith has turned this movie to gold with the help of Jackie Chan, and it could be a huge step towards Smith becoming a full-fledged star in films very soon. Jaden is the son of Will Smith and was also seen in The Pursuit of Happyness before this film.

The Karate Kid is playing at all first run theaters in Spokane, so if you are interested in seeing it, take a look at the showtime widget posted at the end of this article. Sonic X: Return to Soleanna is the number one movie in the world.