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‘Lilo & Stitch,’ Tom Cruise and ultimate ‘Mission Impossible’ rating box-office bonanzas

Editorial Board Published May 26, 2025
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By Andrew Dalton | Related Press

“Lilo & Stitch” teamed with Tom Cruise for a monster Memorial Day field workplace weekend.

Disney’s stay motion model of “Lilo & Stitch” earned a staggering $145.5 million in North American theaters, in line with studio estimates Sunday, the second greatest home opening of the yr after “A Minecraft Movie.”

The film is a trustworthy remake of the 2002 authentic’s story of a six-legged alien and a Hawaiian lady that has created a giant cult following within the many years since. However the duo was no little brother and sister to the better-known figures in Disney’s parade of live-action remakes. It was second solely to the $185 million opening of “The Lion King” in 2019 and outshot all projections, wowing field workplace observers.

“This overperformed by a huge margin,” stated Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore.

“Lilo & Stitch” surpassed Cruise’s 2022 “Top Gun: Maverick” as the largest home Memorial Day weekend earner ever, and international estimates put it previous $300 million.

Paramount Photos’ “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” the eighth and (most likely) final look of Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a virtually three-decade run, was a distant second, however nonetheless introduced in a franchise document $63 million by Sunday, outearning “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” which opened domestically to $61 million in 2018.

And the spy thriller with Cruise’s frequent companion Christopher McQuarrie within the director’s chair for the fourth time within the franchise was the highest international earner with $127 million.

Cruise has been a relentless international promoter of his motion pictures, and he’s been the trade’s loudest cheerleader for going to theaters. This movie, like its predecessor within the collection, premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition.

“The spectacle of what Tom and McQ put on the screen, it screams theatrical,” stated Chris Aronson, Paramount’s president of home distribution. “The product they put out just screams, ‘This has to be in theaters.’”

The earlier movie, 2023’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over 5 days in a July opening, although it got here in shy of trade expectations with a $56.2 million haul over a three-day weekend.

This weekend as an entire blasted previous final yr, when the Memorial Day field workplace noticed simply $132 million for all movies within the Friday-through-Monday span. And it seems that it’s going to high 2013 as the perfect Memorial Day the trade has had, with an estimated general complete of $325 million.

Critics had been wearying of Disney’s stay motion and CGI remakes of its animated classics. Mark Kennedy of The Related Press known as this “Lilo & Stitch” “utterly unnecessary.” There have been indicators audiences had been agreeing. “Snow White” opened to a sleepy $43 million in March, and several other comparable releases had been tepid.

However this movie tapped right into a latent love for oddball pairing.

It additionally furthered a pattern that features “A Minecraft Movie” of PG-rated movies outpacing the PG-13 motion pictures that often dominate, made all of the extra spectacular by the decrease children’ ticket costs the extra family-oriented movies carry.

Dergarabedian credit a powerful lead-up of movies which have put folks in theaters and stay the field workplace high 10, together with “Minecraft,” “Sinners,” “Thunderbolts” and “Final Destination: Bloodlines.”

“I can’t think of a better lineup of films to ignite leading up to Memorial weekend to ignite the spark that got us this record-breaking holiday frame,” he stated.

High 10 motion pictures by home field workplace

With ultimate home figures being launched Monday, this record elements within the estimated ticket gross sales for Friday by Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, in line with Comscore:

1. “Lilo & Stitch,” $145.5 million.

2. “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” $63 million.

3. “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” $19.7 million.

4. “Thunderbolts,” $9.2 million.

5. “Sinners,” $8.8 million.

6. “The Last Rodeo,” $5.3 million.

7. “Friendship,” $4.6 million.

8. “A Minecraft Movie,” $2.2 million.

9. “The Accountant 2,” $2 million.

10. “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” $740,000.

Initially Revealed: Might 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM PDT

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