Disney’s latest live-action adaptation, “Lilo & Stitch,” is making waves at the box office, raking in an impressive $341 million worldwide. This includes a ample $157.8 million from international markets alone.
This opening weekend marks the second-highest of the year, trailing only behind Warner bros.’ video game-inspired film “A Minecraft Movie,” which garnered $313 million over its first three days. Additionally, “Lilo & Stitch” has achieved the distinction of being Disney’s third-largest debut for a live-action remake, following in the footsteps of 2019’s “The Lion King” and 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast,” both of which surpassed $1 billion in total earnings.
With strong word-of-mouth and broad appeal across generations, “Lilo & Stitch” has the potential to reach similar box office milestones. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, this reboot tells the story of a mischievous alien who crash-lands in Hawaii and is taken in by a young girl and her older sister. The film’s top-grossing regions include Mexico with $23.7 million during its opening weekend, followed by the UK at $12.9 million and Brazil at $11.1 million.
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Another notable release this weekend was Paramount and skydance’s “Mission: Impractical – The Final Reckoning,” which also had a strong start with global earnings reaching $190 million; out of this total, $127 million came from 64 international territories. Paramount began releasing this Tom Cruise-led blockbuster internationally about a week prior to its official launch date, incorporating those figures into its initial tally.Key markets for this film included Korea ($12.7 million), Japan ($11 million), the UK ($10.7 million),and India ($9 million). It is indeed set to premiere in china on May 30.
In North America alone, “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” achieved an impressive series-best opening weekend grossing approximately $63 million; it is indeed projected to reach around $77 million through Monday due to Memorial Day holiday traffic.This four-day period will likely push its overall global sales past the remarkable threshold of $200 million—a meaningful achievement for an action-packed epic that boasts one of cinema’s highest production budgets at around $400 million. Directed by franchise veteran Christopher McQuarrie, this eighth installment follows MI6 agent Ethan Hunt as he races against time to thwart a rogue artificial intelligence known as ‘the Entity.’