'Lilo & Stich' team with Tom Cruise and 'Mission Impossible' for a monster Memorial Day weekend
'Lilo & Stich' teamed with Tom Cruise for a monster Memorial Day box office weekend.
Disney's live action version of 'Lilo & Stich' earned a staggering $145.5 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, the second biggest domestic opening of the year after 'A Minecraft Movie.'
The movie is a faithful remake of the 2002 original's story of a six-legged alien and a Hawaiian girl that has created a big cult following in the decades since.
Paramount Pictures' 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,' the eighth and (probably) last appearance of Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a nearly three-decade run, was a distant second domestically, but still brought in a franchise record $63 million through Sunday, out-earning 'Mission Impossible: Fallout,' which opened domestically to $61 million in 2018.
And the spy thriller with Christopher McQuarrie directing for the first time in the franchise was the top global earner with $127 million," with 'Lilo & Stich' bringing in $111 million.
The previous film, 2023's 'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One' launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days in a July opening, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over a three-day weekend.
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