Disney, Paramount Pictures Disney's live-action remake ofLilo & Stitchdrenched the competition at the Memorial Day box office, earning $145.5 million domestically and $304.2 million globally. Combined with earnings fromMission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningandFinal Destination Bloodlines,this Memorial Day weekend became the most profitable in box office history. Next weekend,Karate Kid: LegendsandBring Her Back, the follow-up to 2023 horror breakoutTalk to Me, will vie for the top spot. Ohana means family, and this Memorial Day weekend, family means absolutely torching your competition at thebox office. Disney's live-action remake of their 2002 animated hit,Lilo & Stitch, hung 10 for an extraordinary $145.5 million domestic gross, and $304.2 million at the global box office in its opening weekend. Though it trounced its closest competition —Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning— in both markets, when taken together, the films have already made this Memorial Day weekend the most profitable in box office history. Tom Cruise's final outing as IMF agent Ethan Hunt premiered to an impressive $63 million domestically, and a whopping $190 million at the global box office. As if that weren't enough,Final Destination Bloodlines, the sixth installment in the uber-gory horror franchise, earned $19.6 million domestically and $42.6 million globally in its second week of release. Disney Flashing back tolast year's Memorial Day box officedrives home how unprecedented this weekend's numbers are; the top two films —Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaandThe Garfield Movie—earned $25.5 million and $24.7 million a piece at the domestic box office. Typically, Memorial Day is one of the year's most coveted launch pads for tentpoles, rocketing to success films like 2022'sTop Gun: Maverick($160 million) and even 2021'sA Quiet Place Part II, whichearned $57 milliondespite significant setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year's box office got off to a slow start, marked by disappointing debuts like Disney's previous live-action remake attempt,Snow White. As winter thawed into spring, the number began to tick up, gathering momentum with films likeA Minecraft Movie, whichearned $157 millionduring its April premiere, andRyan Coogler'sSinners, which grossed $45.6 million in its premiere the same month and has proven to possess significant staying power. Sinnersremains in the box office top five despite its modest budget (at least relative to its studio blockbuster competitors) and the fact that it'll soon be entering its seventh week in release. The period vampire action-horror film added another $8.7 million to its domestic coffers, which now top out at $256.5 million, and globally, added $10.7 million for a $336.5 million gross. It was narrowly beaten for the fourth spot this week byMarvel'sThunderbolts*, theFlorence Pugh,Sebastian Stan, andJulia Louis-Dreyfusstarrer that earned $9.1 million domestically this weekend ($171.3 million gross) and $14.7 million globally ($353 million gross). Eric Milner/Warner Bros Elsewhere, Andrew DeYoung's male bonding dramedy,Friendship, which starsTim RobinsonandPaul Rudd, managed an impressive third weekend hold as the limited release expanded nationally. This weekend's $4.5 million domestic take now gives the film a $7.2 million overall gross. A Minecraft MovieandThe Accountant 2are still slowly taking in millions in their eighth and fifth weeks in release, respectively, wherethe Weeknd's big screen debut,Hurry Up Tomorrow, continues to disappoint with a $740,000 take in its second week in theaters. Want more movie news? Sign up forEntertainment Weekly's free newsletterto get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. It's going to take a fearsome foe to unseatLilo & StitchandMission: Impossible, let aloneFinal Destination,Thunderbolts*, andSinners. But two films have a shot at next weekend's box office. The first isKarate Kid: Legends, the sixth film in the coming-of-age martial arts drama franchise that packs the combined star power ofJoshua Jackson,Jackie Chan, andRalph Macchio. The second isBring Her Back, the sophomore feature from YouTubers–turned–horror auteurs Danny and Michael Philippou, who scored a major hit with 2023'sTalk to Me. Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly
