Lilo & Stitch, Mission: Impossible and Box Office
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With $131.89 million already in the kitty, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is now just a few million dollars away from becoming the 7th highest-grossing film in the franchise. Currently, the 7th spot is held by Mission: Impossible III ( $134.02 million ).
Disney's blockbuster 'Lilo & Stitch' earns a huge $63 million domestically in its second weekend for a jaw-dropping global haul of $610 million, while Tom Cruise's final 'M:I' movie also continues to impress.
Saturday was kind to most movies in the top 10 which saw lifts over Friday, in particularly Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning which were respectively up 51% and 56%.
Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” held onto the top spot at the U.K. and Ireland box office for a second consecutive weekend, drawing £6.1 million ($8.2 million) to push its cumulative gross to a £25.9 million ($34.
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The two films are fueling the biggest Memorial Day weekend in history, while 'Lilo & Stitch' will supplant Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' as the holiday's top opener of all time (he's also the mainstay star of the 'M:I' series).
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Americans are spending their Memorial Day weekends at the movies, as box office data suggests this weekend is on track to be the highest-grossing Memorial Day weekend ever at the box office, with Disney’s live-action “Lilo & Stitch” remake taking in $183 million and beating out “Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
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“Lilo & Stitch,” a remake of the 2002 animated film about a young Hawaiian girl who befriends a doglike alien, surfed to a U.S. box office-leading $145.5 million opening weekend, while “Final Reckoning,” billed as the final chapter in the story of Tom Cruise’s super spy Ethan Hunt, extracted $63 million, according to the Associated Press.