Lionsgate has dropped the final, full-throttle trailer for Ballerina, and it’s a knockout. The new preview finally gives fans a proper look at Ana de Armas’s Eve Macarro as she cuts a bloody path through a gauntlet of assassins—culminating in a tense encounter with Keanu Reeves’s legendary Baba Yaga, John Wick. From ballroom shoot-outs to snow-choked sword fights, the footage positions Eve as the most relentless protégé the Ruska Roma has ever produced.
According to the official logline, Eve is deep into her assassin training when she uncovers the real reason her family was slaughtered. Consumed by vengeance, she embarks on a solo mission to erase every name on her kill list or die trying. The trailer showcases her improvised fighting style—one moment detonating incandescent flares in a cramped corridor, the next grappling a would-be assassin over a spiral staircase before snapping his neck mid-fall.
Advance tickets are now on sale, and Lionsgate has confirmed a May 4 slate of premium-format preview screenings (IMAX, Dolby Cinema, ScreenX) ahead of the June 6 wide release. The studio also announced a final runtime of 125 minutes, making Ballerina the leanest entry in the John Wick timeline since the 2014 original.
Early tracking from industry analytics firm NRG suggests a domestic debut between $39 million and $48 million, with a bullseye projection of $45 million. That would mark the franchise’s third-best launch, trailing only John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum ($56 million) and Chapter 4 ($73 million). A start in that range would instantly crown de Armas as Hollywood’s newest action headliner and virtually guarantee the green-lighting of additional Eve Macarro adventures.
Narratively, the film slots between Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, promising to explain how John Wick recovers after his Continental betrayal and hinting at the just-announced John Wick 5. Director Len Wiseman and franchise creator Chad Stahelski have teased that Eve’s vendetta will ripple into Wick’s fate, potentially laying out the first breadcrumbs for the Baba Yaga’s resurrection.
Whether you’re eager for the ballet-of-bullets choreography or the lore nuggets that bridge two Wick chapters, Ballerina looks set to pirouette into multiplexes with enough gun-fu elegance and emotional stakes to satisfy die-hards and newcomers alike.
In addition to Ana de Armas (Knives Out; No Time to Die; Ghosted), the film also features Keanu Reeves (The Matrix; Speed; Sonic the Hedgehog 3) as the legendary John Wick, with a supporting cast consisting of Anjelica Huston (The Addams Family; Prizzi’s Honor), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects; Miller's Crossing), the late Lance Reddick (John Wick; The Wire), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace; The Affair), Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead; Boondock Saints), Ian McShane (Deadwood; John Wick), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Enola Holmes 2; Dune), and David Castañeda (Poker Face; The Umbrella Academy).
Len Wiseman (Underworld; Live Free or Die Hard) helmed the spinoff, while Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum; Army of the Dead) penned the script. Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, and Chad Stahelski are attached as producers.
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina hits theaters on June 6!
Check out the final trailer, a new still, and new posters below:
Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, the film follows Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas) who is beginning her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.