John Wick 4

John Wick movies come out with a reliable amount of frequency and impressively realized violence, and the first look at the fourth film will make you wish ...

The trailer provides a look at the film’s new blood, such as Hiroyuki Sanada, Shamier Anderson, Bill Skarsgård, Clancy Brown, Rina Sawayama, Scott Adkins, and Donnie Yen. Like the pencil kill from JW2 or the book and knives kills from JW3, it’s just new and goofy enough to be exciting. Kills featuring a hatchet and bow and arrow look fun, but honestly, it’s the shot of John blasting someone to ashes with an incendiary round that makes the trailer for me.

Lionsgate is hoping that Keanu Reeves' 'John Wick: Chapter 4' will continue the franchise's miraculous upwards trajectory at the domestic and worldwide box ...

John Wick: Chapter 2 was a classic breakout sequel, opening amid a crowded February in 2017 (on the same weekend as The LEGO Batman Movie and Fifty Shades Darker) with $30 million before legging out to $92 million domestic and $172 million worldwide on a $40 million budget. It still “only” rose 58% domestic and 62% worldwide from The Winter Soldier ($259 million/$714 million). John Wick: Chapter 3, obviously working with smaller grosses, jumped 86% domestic and 87% worldwide without a penny from China. Back in 2019, I wondered aloud whether John Wick: Chapter 4, which in a non-Covid world would have opened in the same mid-May slot in 2021, might take a massive overseas upswing as we saw with Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, Jason Bourne and Fast & Furious (all “part four” in their respective character-specific franchises) while keeping domestic strength. March is ridiculously crowded as at least three of these biggies (John Wick 4, Aquaman 2 and Creed 3) were supposed to open elsewhere in 2022. John Wick debuted in late October of 2014 with a surprisingly strong $14 million debut before earning $43 million domestic and $88 million worldwide on a $30 million budget. It also kept chugging to $171 million domestic and $323 million worldwide on a $75 million budget. My wife is out of town with the oldest.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2022 fans got a first glimpse at John Wick 4 in a new trailer, which stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Donnie Yen, ...

I’m not entirely sure how vacation time works in the complicated world of assassins. But it also raises an important question: where does all of this finally end? John Wick 4 — which, according to the trailer, appears to be titled simply “John Wick” — is due to hit theaters on March 24th, 2023.

Have you given any thought to where this ends? No one, not even you, can kill everyone.”

A key scene in Parabellum depicted a training school for young girls, similar to the one where John Wick was raised, involving intense ballet training. In the ensuing parley with the Adjuticator, Winston declared fealty to the High Table and shot John, who tumbled off the rooftop to the ground. Of course he succeeds—he's John Wick—but the client, Italian crime lord Santino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio), tries to cover his tracks by posting a bounty on Wick's head. In John Wick: Chapter Two, Wick takes on a whole slew of Russian baddies but finds himself honor-bound (per the professional hitman's code) to go on one last assignment. The first John Wick grossed more than $88 million worldwide for a film that cost around $30 million to make, and it was praised for its brisk pace, heart-stopping action sequences, and stylish noir feel. As I've written previously, for the benefit of those who missed the first three movies, John Wick (Reeves) is a legendary hitman (known as the Boogeyman or "Baba Yaga") who tried to retire when he fell in love and got married.