“Lilo & Stitch” is projected to win the weekend box office with an estimated $183 million through Monday, which would mark the highest Memorial Day weekend opening of all time, overtaking “Top Gun: Maverick” and its $126 million opening in 2022.

“Lilo & Stich” teamed with Tom Cruise for a monster Memorial Day box office weekend.Disney's live action version of “Lilo & Stich” earned a staggering $145.5 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, the second biggest domestic opening of the year after “A Minecraft Movie.”The movie is a faithful remake of the 2002 original's story of a six-legged alien and a Hawaiian girl that has created a big cult following in the decades since.Paramount Pictures' “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” the eighth and (probably) last appearance of Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a nearly three-decade run, was a distant second domestically, but still brought in a franchise record $63 million through Sunday, out-earning “Mission Impossible: Fallout,” which opened domestically to $61 million in 2018.And the spy thriller with Christopher McQuarrie directing for the first time in the franchise was the top global earner with $127 million," with “Lilo & Stich” bringing in $111 million.The previous film, 2023’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days in a July opening, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over a three-day weekend.

It’s a Memorial Day weekend for the box office record books. Movie theaters across the country were jamming as “Lilo & Stitch” and Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” fueled the largest Memorial Day holiday in history — and established several other benchmarks in the process.

Memorial Day is not just about having a day off. It is a day set aside to remember those who died while serving in the military. People visit cemeteries. They attend services.

The Final Reckoning' is likewise set to shatter records over what's virtually assured of being the biggest Memorial Day weekend of all time in terms of movie ticket sales.

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