Disney’s Lilo & Stitch won the historically competitive Memorial Day weekend box office
While ticket sales are still being tabulated as we speak, according to box-office tracker Comscore, domestically the film has generated $183 million in ticket sales between Thursday and Monday. So that boosts it’s already record-breaking global take of $341 million. As of yesterday, it had only made $157.8 million domestically.
Not only does it beat the highly-anticipated swan song for Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise, The Final Reckoning. It beat the previous record holder, Fast & Furious 6, which made $314.3 million back in 2013.
Now, Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning did some damage this weekend, with some people doing double features dubbed “Stitchin’ Impossible.” It made $77.5 million between Thursday and Monday.
The success of both films comes as a relief to exhibitors who had been previously worried about the lackluster box office returns for the first few months of the year.
But we’re willing to bet that The Walt Disney Company is even more relieved now that it seems they’re going to have their first $1 billion movie since last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine – and it’s going to be recuperating some of its losses from Snow White.
Lilo & Stitch, like its animated predecessor, tells the story of “the bond formed between a lonely human girl named Lilo and a dog-like alien named Stitch, who is engineered to be a force of destruction. Pursuing aliens, social workers and the idea of the bond of family figure into the proceedings.”
Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, the film stars Maia Kealoha as Lilo Pelekai, with original Lilo & Stitch writer-director Chris Sanders reprising his voice role as Stitch. It also stars Sydney Agudong, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, and Courtney B. Vance, with original cast members Tia Carrere, Amy Hill, and Jason Scott Lee also appearing.
Lilo & Stitch is in theaters now!
