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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Jun 13, 2010 4:00 AM UTC  Jackie Chan as Mr. Han and Jaden Smith as Dre Parker in Columbia Pictures' The Karate Kid Jackie Chan as Mr. Han and Jaden Smith as Dre Parker in Columbia Pictures' The Karate Kid Jasin Boland / Columbia Pictures by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Jun 13, 2010 4:00 AM UTC And a little child shall lead them … back into the black. _The Karate Kid_, starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan in a Beijing-located remake of the 1984 hit, earned a knockout $56 million this weekend at North American theaters, according to early studio estimates. Its chief victim: _The A-Team_, a more bombastic (emphasis on _bomb_) trip into 1980s nostalgia, which took in $26 million. _Kid_‘s ancillary victim was the box office blahs, which have recently decimated movie earnings. Over the past month, the big new pictures — _Robin Hood_, _Shrek Forever After_, _Sex and the City 2_, _Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time_, _Get Him to the Greek_, _Killers_ — have opened well below the industry’s predictions, leading to an acute case of movie malaise. Would ticket revenue, which had boomed while other sectors of the economy languished, ever perk up again? The answer is yes, and now. For the first week in the past five, a new picture actually exceeded expectations. The morning-line savants, who had forecast an opening for _The Karate Kid_ in the $27 million to $35 million range, got a devastating crane-kick to their conventional wisdom. In a way, the success of this shamelessly sentimental sports-inspirational drama hit the know-it-alls on _The Blind Side_. [(See TIME’s review of _The A-Team_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1996296,00.html) _Kid_ registered the highest opening for a nonsequel since the $61.2 million rung up in early April by _Clash of the Titans_, another remake of a 1980s hit. _Kid_ is Chan’s second biggest first weekend, topped only by _Rush Hour 2_‘s $67.4 million in 2001\. _Kid_‘s $56 million is also more than twice the $26.5 million opening weekend of Smith’s previous leading role, in the 2006 film _The Pursuit of Happyness_, for which the other lead was the world’s biggest movie star, his dad. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith produced the new film with Jerry Weintraub, producer of the 1984 original, and shot it (in China, with Beijing doubling for Detroit in the early scenes) for a frugal $40 million. Children and their parents, for whom the PG-rated picture was angled, were neither scared away nor, apparently, bored by its nearly 2½-hr. running time. _Kid_ took in $18.8 million on Friday, then jumped to $21.2 million as the Saturday-matinee crowd joined in. The multitudes gathered both from savvy promotion and urgent word of mouth: the film achieved a golden A in the CinemaScore polling of exiting moviegoers. Given that the original film spawned two sequels (a _Next Karate Kid_ and an animated series), this one has the sweet odor of a franchise. [(See TIME’s photo-essay “2010: The Year of the ’80s Remakes.”)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1977221,00.html) Of the _Kid_ marketing strategy, _The A-Team_‘s Hannibal Smith might have said, “I love it when a plan comes together.” Hannibal — George Peppard in the ’80s TV series, Liam Neeson in the movie version — is the leader of a misfit quartet of Army vets who go about performing daredevil do-goodery while trying to find the miscreant who got them court-martialed for a crime they didn’t commit. For the movie, which was a decade in development and cost at least $100 million Canadian (it was shot in and around Vancouver), the plan didn’t quite gel. The audiences who saw the film liked it well enough — a B-plus on CinemaScore — but not in sufficient numbers. To break even, and to break into sequel territory, the movie will have to do big business when it opens next week in Europe. Or maybe it just needs … the A-Team. You know the line from the old show: “If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them … ” On the indie and foreign-film mini-front, the showbiz doc _Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work_ earned $170,580 at seven theaters and “played to sold-out shows all weekend,” writes Peter Knegt of IndieWire; the film expands to the top 15 markets next week and 50 cities by July 4\. Ray de Felitta’s comedy _City Island_ — with the tempting ad line “Truth is stranger than family” — is now a genuine indie hit, at $5.7 million in its fourth month. The possibly-not-a-documentary _Exit Through the Gift Shop_, highlighting the work of elusive graffiti artist Banksy, keeps rolling along: $2.4 million in nine weeks. And the Oscar-winning Argentine thriller _The Secret in the Eyes_ is the year’s most successful foreign-language entry, with $5.6 million, also after nine weeks. [(See the 100 best movies of all time.)](https://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/) But those are niche movies for grownups. At the big-time box office this weekend, Kid Power ruled. Look for the little ones to empty their piggy banks again next weekend, when _Toy Story 3_ opens. Here are the Sunday estimates of the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _The Karate Kid_, $56 million, first weekend 2\. _The A-Team_, $26 million, first weekend 3\. _Shrek Forever After_, $15.8 million; $210.1 million, fourth week 4\. _Get Him to the Greek_, $10.1 million; $36.5 million, second week 5\. _Killers_, $8.2 million; $30.7 million, second week 6\. _Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time_, $6.6 million; $72.3 million, third week 7\. _Marmaduke_, $6 million; $22.3 million, second week 8\. _Sex and the City 2_, $5.5 million; $84.7 million, third week 9\. _Iron Man 2_, $4.6 million; $299.3 million, sixth week 10\. _Splice_, $2.9 million; $13.1 million, second week [See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) [See the Cartoons of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/cartoonsoftheweek/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910919/box-office-weekend-karate-kid-whups-a-team/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910919/box-office-weekend-karate-kid-whups-a-team/"},"headline":"Box Office Weekend: Karate Kid Whups A-Team","datePublished":"2010-06-13T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:16:21.068Z","description":"And a little child shall lead them ... back into the black. 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