The field workplace is in want of saving after a tough begin to the autumn season. October 2025 was the worst month in practically three many years, with disappointments and flops abound that kneecapped your entire interval. November figures to carry greener pastures with anticipated blockbusters like “Depraved: For Good” and “Zootopia 2” on deck. However are we overlooking “Now You See Me: Now You Do not” as a doable sleeper hit? Although it is definitely not a assure, this long-awaited sequel has the potential to shock.
Directed by Ruben Fleischer (“Uncharted”), the third entry within the “Now You See Me” franchise is presently anticipated to tug in between $12 and $17 million domestically when it opens subsequent weekend, per Field Workplace Principle. It is more likely to take the silver medal since Edgar Wright’s “The Working Man” adaptation is eying a gap of at the least $20 million. So, on the floor, that is not terribly promising, particularly after we take into account that “Now You See Me 2” value round $90 million to provide. This third magical heist flick seems to be to be equally costly. However there’s extra to this equation than meets the attention.
2013’s “Now You See Me” opened to $29.3 million domestically en path to $351.7 million worldwide. “Now You See Me 2” opened a little bit softer at $22.3 million and nonetheless made it to $334.8 million globally, a giant success by anybody’s math. These motion pictures have by no means relied on huge, flashy opening weekends to make their hay. That is as a result of they have been outsized hits internationally, which is undoubtedly what Lionsgate is hoping for right here … particularly after the studio had its worst yr ever on the field workplace in 2024. It may use a win, and, if all goes properly, this may very well be that win.
The Now You See Me motion pictures had been monster hits abroad
The third “Now You See Me” film follows the now-retired Horsemen as they reunite for a diamond heist and workforce up with some new, youthful performers. Returning forged members embody Jesse Eisenberg (J. Daniel Atlas), Woody Harrelson (Merritt McKinney), Dave Franco (Jack Wilder), Isla Fisher (Henley Reeves), and Morgan Freeman (Thaddeus Bradley), with newcomers Dominic Sessa (“The Holdovers”), Justice Smith (“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”), Ariana Greenblatt (“Barbie”), and Rosamund Pike (“Saltburn”) rounding out the forged.
If we assume that abroad enchantment continues to be there, an beneath $20 million begin for this film is way from a loss of life sentence. To place issues into perspective, “Now You See Me” made practically two-thirds of its cash internationally, whereas “Now You See Me 2” made simply over 80% of its cash abroad. Evidently viewers grew between installments, and for a Hollywood movie, that degree of ticket gross sales coming abroad is exceptionally uncommon. Granted, worldwide field workplace returns have dwindled for U.S. motion pictures lately, in order that’s going to be an element right here.
However there are exceptions to each rule and, traditionally, this franchise has been an outlier. Sure movies merely play higher for worldwide audiences. Certainly, “F1” is the largest authentic film of 2025 with $629.5 million globally, 70% of which got here from abroad ticket gross sales. It nonetheless occurs, and it may occur right here, too.
It helps that this film may additionally play properly into the Thanksgiving vacation body, thriving for weeks to return. If audiences are on this movie’s aspect, it may appear to be a magic trick when all’s stated and achieved. Then once more, if the worldwide ticket gross sales are mushy, it may very well be robust sledding.
“Now You See Me: Now You Do not” opens in theaters on November 14, 2025.
