Mortal Kombat II is headed to premium video on demand on Tuesday, June 9, giving viewers a quick path from the theater to the couch after a short run on the big screen. Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment announced the digital release on Tuesday.
For anyone looking up the mortal kombat 2 digital release date, the prices are now set: the film will be available to buy for $24.99 on Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Prime Video and YouTube Movies & TV, or to rent for $19.99 for 48 hours. That makes the home rollout clear even as the movie finishes a theatrical run that never quite matched its opening burst.
Karl Urban anchors the film as Johnny Cage, the washed-up action star at the center of the latest chapter in the franchise. The cast also includes Tadanobu Asano as Lord Raiden, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Martyn Ford as Emperor Shao Kahn, Adeline Rudolph as Kitana and Hiroyuki Sanada, who reprises his role as Hanzo Hasashi, also known as Scorpion. The movie opened in theaters on May 8 and brought in $38.5 million in its opening weekend from 3,503 North American theaters.
That first weekend looked strong, but the film’s footing weakened fast. It fell 65 percent in domestic ticket sales in its second weekend and made $13.4 million from May 15-17 while playing in 3,534 venues, then slid to 2,726 locations the following frame and 1,603 by May 29-31. By then, the domestic total had reached $78 million and the international haul $47.8 million, for a worldwide box office of $125.8 million.
Those numbers do not translate neatly into profit. The film was made for $80 million before marketing, and theaters typically keep about half of ticket sales, leaving the studio still on the hook to recover advertising costs from whatever comes next. That is why the move to digital matters: it gives the studio a fresh revenue stream after the theatrical run has clearly started to thin out.
A third installment is already in development, but whether the digital release improves the franchise’s financial picture will be judged by how much home viewers are willing to pay once the film arrives on June 9.
