Box-office: Stitch and Tom Cruise explode all records for the Memorial Day

This year, the summer of blockbusters begins in May! Affecting them two all categories of spectators, Lilo and Stitch And Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning made sensational launches at the American box office and also signed the best weekend of the Memorial Day of all time. We take stock.

Rain of records for Disney and Paramount

This Monday, May 26 is a public holiday with our American friends, who celebrate the Memorial Day the memory of soldiers who died in combat. It is also an opportunity for cinemas to afford a long weekend, and to bring back spectators with new films with a big show.

And the public was obviously there, since with a cumulation (estimated) of $ 323 million gleaned between Friday and Monday, this 2025 edition is already historic. She thus broke the previous record dating from 2013, where the boxes of Fast and Furious 6 And Very bad trip 3 had made it possible to reach 314.3 million.

A big part of this success has just Lilo and Stitchwhich easily won the crown with 145.5 million dollars recorded over 3 days, and more than 183 million estimated with Monday holidays. He thus dethroned the previous record of the Memorial Day held by Top Gun: Maverick in 2022 (160.5 million) and undoubtedly revived Disney’s Live Action Remake MachineAfter the failure of Snow White.

As a comparison, Lilo and Stitch a start -up (over 3 days) similar to that of Super Mario Bros, the film (146.3 million) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (148 million). The film also makes an international box, and has a total world at 341.7 million. Suffice to say that the billion bar at the end of their careers is the most certain certainties and promises to be a formality.

In second place, Tom Cruise can also be happy, since his Mission: Impossible 8 has also just offered him a record. With 63 million recorded in three days, and 77 million expected with Monday, The Final Reckoning accomplished The best start of the franchiseespecially before Mission: Impossible – Fallout (61.2 million), Mission: Impossible 2 (57.8 million) and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (55.5 million).

If Paramount Pictures naturally is delighted with this beautiful launch, the studio without a doubt knows that it will not recover its bet. With an estimated budget at $ 400 million (excluding marketing), The Final Reckoning Has undergone the strike in Hollywood of 2023 and will need one (unlikely) end of career beyond the billion to return to its costs.

But whatever the final score of the film, its nice public reception allows Tom Cruise to sign a new success, which will benefit economically – streaming and other TV rights – to the rest of the franchise, which has generated more than $ 4.3 billion at the world box office for the time being.

In the rest of the ranking, Final Destination: Bloodlines Surfe on its beautiful start-up last week and records $ 19.6 million for its second weekend (-61.9%). The reboot of the horror saga totals $ 89.7 million on American soil and 182 million worldwide, and will become the biggest success of the franchise in the coming days.

This table will be updated later with the final figures.

US box office from May 23 to 26, 2025 (estimates)

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