“Lilo & Stitch” Surfs Past Tom Cruise's “Mission: Impossible” for Record-Breaking Memorial Day Weekend Box Office Win

Disney's favourite bluish alien bested popcorn's number 1 fan Tom Cruise for a large triumph astatine nan Memorial Day play container office.

After nan live-action adjustment of Lilo & Stitch and Cruise's Mission: Impossible —The Final Reckoning debuted successful movie theaters crossed North America connected Friday, May 23, Lilo & Stitch took nan home container office's apical spot arsenic it grossed $183 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Globally, it made $341.7 million.

Final Reckoning, meanwhile, which stands retired arsenic nan Mission: Impossible franchise's eighth and potentially last entry, made $77 cardinal domestically and $190 cardinal worldwide.

Lilo & Stitch is now nan biggest Memorial Day opener of each time, without taking adjusted ostentation into consideration, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Lilo & Stitch introduces Hawaiian kid prima Maia Kealoha arsenic Lilo, nan small woman who coincidentally befriends nan highly lovable/destructive alien Stitch.

Chris Sanders, who created nan characteristic and wrote and directed Disney's 2002 original animated film, voices Stitch.

The movie besides features Sydney Agudong arsenic Lilo’s sister and guardian Nani, Kaipo Dudoit arsenic Nani’s friend David, Courtney B. Vance as Cobra Bubbles, Billy Magnussen arsenic Pleakley and Zach Galifianakis arsenic Dr. Jumba Jookiba.

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Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning stars Cruise, 62, on pinch an ensemble formed that includes Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff.

Ving Rhames, Angela Bassett, Nick Offerman, Henry Czerny, Rolf Saxon, Esai Morales, Greg Tarzan Davis, Hannah Waddingham and Tramell Tillman are among others who besides look successful nan film.

The movie ties successful elements from galore of nan 7 anterior Mission: Impossible films for 1 past adventure, arsenic Ethan Hunt's Impossible Missions Force continues nan conflict that began successful 2023's Dead Reckoning to prevention nan world from an artificial intelligence known arsenic "the Entity."

Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning are some successful theaters now.