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

Disney’s favorite blue alien bested popcorn’s number one fan Tom Cruise for a big win at the Memorial Day weekend box office.

After the live-action adaptation of Lilo & Stitch and Cruise’s Mission: Impossible —The Final Reckoning debuted in movie theaters across North America on Friday, May 23, Lilo & Stitch took the domestic box office’s top spot as it grossed $183 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Globally, it made $341.7 million.

Final Reckoning, meanwhile, which stands out as the Mission: Impossible franchise’s eighth and potentially final entry, made $77 million domestically and $190 million worldwide.

Lilo & Stitch is now the biggest Memorial Day opener of all time, without taking adjusted inflation into consideration, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Lilo & Stitch introduces Hawaiian child star Maia Kealoha as Lilo, the little girl who coincidentally befriends the highly lovable/destructive alien Stitch.

Chris Sanders, who created the character and wrote and directed Disney’s 2002 original animated film, voices Stitch.

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

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning stars Cruise, 62, along with an ensemble cast 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 also appear in the film.

The movie ties in elements from many of the seven prior Mission: Impossible films for one last adventure, as Ethan Hunt’s Impossible Missions Force continues the fight that began in 2023’s Dead Reckoning to save the world from an artificial intelligence known as “the Entity.”

Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning are both in theaters now.

Source People.com