‘Stitchpossible’ kicks off summer with record box office for Memorial Day weekend
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After a slow start to 2025, the Hollywood box office pulled off a “Stitchpossible” comeback buoyed by a huge holiday weekend.
After a slow start to 2025, the Hollywood box office has pulled off a “Stitchpossible” comeback buoyed by a huge holiday weekend. Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” and the eighth installment of “Mission: Impossible” helped spark a record $325 million estimated box office haul for Memorial Day weekend. “Lilo & Stitch” grossed roughly $145.5 million domestically Friday through Sunday and is expected to earn another $37.5 million by late Monday after expectations of at least $160 million for the three-day weekend. It is expected to be the highest-grossing opening for the holiday weekend, likely edging the 2022 release of Paramount’s “Top Gun Maverick” ($160 million), according to Comscore data. “Lilo & Stitch,” a live-action remake of the 2002 animated film, surged ahead of Paramount and Skydance’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” which grossed about $63 million in domestic sales through Sunday, surpassing projections of about $60 million for the three-day weekend. The latest Tom Cruise blockbuster is expected to earn about $77 million through the holiday and is the best three-day opening for the franchise, topping 2018’s “Mission: Impossible — Fallout,” which earned $61 million. “That perfect combination of ‘Lilo and Stitch’ and ‘Mission: Impossible’ put a spotlight on Memorial Day weekend,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, told CNN on Sunday. “We were singing a very sad song a year ago.” The strong Memorial Day weekend box office is an encouraging sign for the industry, which had grossed a tepid $132 million for the weekend last year.
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