There’s now an official premiere date forBallerina. AJohn Wickspinoff film featuring Ana de Armas in the lead role, the movie was recently reported to be planned for a release in either the spring or summer of 2024. It’s now been revealed, perDeadline, that Lionsgate will go with the latter, opting to releaseBallerinain movie theaters on the date ofJune 7, 2024.
The movie getting a release date comes asJohn Wick: Chapter 4continues to rack in big bucks with its theatrical run. The movie has since grossed more than $245 million in worldwide ticket sales, and those numbers continue to climb, makingJohn Wick: Chapter 4the fifth highest-grossing film of the year at this point. If we factor in what the first three movies made, the franchise is up to more than $833 million in money earned. The success of the fourth film shows that popularity in the series is still strong, and while the current status ofJohn Wick 5remains unclear, Lionsgate will be keeping the franchise moving with other characters taking the lead for now.
Len Wiseman is directingBallerinausing a screenplay co-written with Shay Hatten and Emerald Fennell. Ana de Armas leads the cast as a ballerina seeking revenge against those who murdered her family. Keanu Reeves will also appear in the film as John Wick, joining other franchise stars Ian McShane as Winston Scott, Anjelica Huston as The Director, and the late, great Lance Reddick as Charon in one of his final roles. Gabriel Byrne, Norman Reedus, and Catalina Sandino Moreno also star.
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Ballerina Will Be the First of Multiple John Wick Spinoffs
Ballerinawill be just the first of multiple spinoffs set in theJohn Wickuniverse. There are other characters who could potentially have their stories expanded upon in new movies, though it remains to be seen who exactly would be getting such projects. What we know is that a prequel series dubbedThe Continentalis officially happening at Peacock, and this will jump into the backstories of some notable characters. Franchise writer Shay Hatten recentlyteased other big spinoffssoon to be coming as well.
“I think this movie is just opening up more and more avenues of this world,” Hatten toldTotal Film. “There’s all these little pockets of different crime families, and different corners of the world that John might never have a reason to go visit in his mainline story quest.”
Hatten added, “ButBallerina, through the lens of the ballet theater that we see John visit in the third movie, explores a character who’s come up through that, and then gets sent on a journey to a new pocket of the Wick world that I think is a concept that we haven’t seen in any of the four previous movies. I think it really just shows this limitless potential for expanding and exploring the grey areas of this world.”
