Studio determined for extra ‘John Wick’ movies with Keanu Reeves

“John Wick: Chapter 4” made a killing on the field workplace its first weekend — and the CEO of its studio, Lionsgate, is hungry for extra.

“We’re not able to say goodbye to Keanu with this franchise,” Lionsgate Movement Image Group Chair Joe Drake told Deadline after the stellar outcome.

His optimistic remarks come regardless of a clear-cut ending for the title character within the fourth movie.

“There’s a whole lot of various things that we are able to do,” Drake mentioned. “I’ve seen this film 5 occasions within the final week.”

Drake and Lionsgate had been absolutely moved by the franchise-record field workplace take of $137.5 million worldwide ($73 million home) its first weekend, and its 95% score on RottenTomatoes — one other excessive.

The Submit awarded “John Wick: Chapter 4” 3.5 stars, calling it “100-miles-an-hour” and “an attractive sight to behold.”

Within the movie, murderer Wick darts world wide — New York, Berlin, Paris, Osaka — piling up our bodies to lastly free himself from the chains of the highly effective crime syndicate the Excessive Desk. The bloody motion flick additionally stars Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane and Invoice Skarsgård.

Reeves, 58, hasn’t dismissed the opportunity of a return for Wick, both. 

“I don’t know, I assume I’m going to must lean on by no means say by no means,” he advised Leisure Weekly. “I imply, I wouldn’t do a John Wick movie with out [director] Chad Stahelski. We’d must see what that appeared like. For me, it feels actually proper that John Wick finds peace.”

The actor additionally confirmed he’ll make an look as John Wick within the upcoming spin-off movie “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas, that’s deliberate for launch in 2024.

“I’ve a cameo in ‘Ballerina,’ that’s true,” he said onstage at SXSW. 

However Reeves wouldn’t say if he will probably be part of the spin-off Peacock miniseries, “The Continental” with Mel Gibson, which can debut in late 2023.