Ballerina Movie (2025): Release Date, Cast, Story, Photos, Trailer, Budget, Box Office & Everything You Need to Know

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Ballerina Cast & Characters

• Ana de Armas as Eve Macarro, a ballerina
• Victoria Comte as young Eve
• Anjelica Huston as the Director
• Gabriel Byrne as the Chancellor
• Lance Reddick as Charon
• Norman Reedus as Daniel Pine
• Catalina Sandino Moreno as Lena
• Ian McShane as Winston Scott
• Keanu Reeves as John Wick, a professional hitman and legendary assassin (from John Wick movie series)
• Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Nogi
• Choi Soo-young as Katla Park
• Robert Maaser as Dex
• Jung Doo-hong as Il Seong
• Waris Ahluwalia as The Eye
• David Castañeda as Javier Macarro
• Abraham Popoola as Frank
• Ava McCarthy as Ella Pine
• Juliet Doherty as Tatiana
• Daniel Bernhardt as Scarred Eye Assassin

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina Storyline

Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Ballerina follows Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas) who is beginning her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

About Ballerina Movie

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (or simply Ballerina) is the fifth film in the John Wick franchise, serving as a spin-off set between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4.

In July 2017, Lionsgate Films acquired Shay Hatten’s action thriller Ballerina, with Thunder Road Films producing the film with Hatten rewriting the script to be a part of the John Wick franchise, with the concepts of Ballerina ultimately being written into the third main film, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019), with a ballerina portrayed by Unity Phelan making an appearance.

At the end of the year, the script was voted onto The Black List of best unproduced screenplays in 2017. By October 2019, Len Wiseman was hired to direct the film. In May 2020, it was reported that the studio was looking for an actress to star in the film, with Chloë Grace Moretz as the template for the kind of talent they were looking for.

Stahelski met with Wiseman, and approached executives to hire the filmmaker. He confirmed that he and his team will work closely with Wiseman on the action sequences and stunts for the film, while acknowledging that Wiseman’s filmmaking style will add variety to the franchise. At that point, Wiseman and Hatten were working on a newer draft of the script.

By October 2021, Ana de Armas entered negotiations to play the titular character, a ballerina-assassin. By April 2022, Lionsgate officially announced the film at CinemaCon, and said that de Armas would star in the lead role. In July 2022, Emerald Fennell was hired to contribute to the script as one of its writers.

Initially scheduled to commence in summer 2022, principal photography officially began on November 7, 2022, in Prague, Czech Republic. Throughout the month and in early December, it was announced that Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, and Lance Reddick had joined the cast and will reprise their roles from previous films of the franchise; as John Wick, Winston Scott, “the Director”, and Charon, respectively; Throughout December, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus, and Gabriel Byrne joined the supporting cast in undisclosed roles.

Ballerina was in post-production in February 2023. In February 2024, producer Chad Stahelski was working on additional action sequences for the film with director Len Wiseman. By March, David Castañeda and Sharon Duncan-Brewster joined the cast. Reportedly, Stahelski oversaw two to three months of reshoots, refilming the majority of the movie, with Wiseman not present on set. Star Norman Reedus traveled from Japan to film his added fight scenes in Budapest.

The first marketing material for the film, shown at the April 2024 CinemaCon convention, was a short teaser trailer released to the closed-door audience. Entertainment Weekly reported that the trailer included Charon, Winston, Norman Reedus’s undisclosed character, and Wick in a cameo appearance at the end. There, its title was presented as John Wick Presents: Ballerina. Bleeding Cool called the footage “exactly what CinemaCon dreams are made of”. On September 26, 2024, the film’s first trailer was released by Lionsgate, where the movie’s official title was revealed to be From the World of John Wick: Ballerina.

In March 2023, producer Erica Lee stated that the studio has plans to develop a sequel with de Armas reprising her role.

Ballerina Movie Release Date

Ballerina was released in the United States on June 6, 2025., after being delayed from its originally announced date of June 7, 2024. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $94 million worldwide.

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