It’s saying “Aloha” to A-lot of cash.
The “Lilo & Stitch” live-action remake is on its method to turning into the largest Memorial Day weekend opening for a film ever.
The Disney movie raked in $55 million on its opener, Friday, alone, based on The Numbers.
It’s additionally the second-highest grossing opening weekend in 2025, after “A Minecraft Movie,” based on Selection.
The Publish, nonetheless, was not impressed, and thought Disney “turned the story into a soulless downer, made its color palette practically sepia and tacked on an extra half hour of dead air.”
In second place was “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” the eighth and remaining installment of the Tom Cruise-led collection, with gross sales of $24.8 million.
The motion spy flick, which additionally opened on Friday “is overblown, inanely plotted, clotted with expository dialogue and boundlessly self-congratulatory … but … it’s also fun to watch,” NPR stated in its overview.
Opposite to its title, it doesn’t mark the 62-year-old motion king’s remaining movie — by any means.
“I actually said I’m going to make movies into my 80s. Actually, I’m going to make them into my 100s,” Cruise stated in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on the movie’s New York premiere.
The film, which price $400 million to make, can also be some of the costly ever made because it was filmed through the COVID-19 pandemic, two Hollywood strikes and will increase in inflation.
The supernatural horror thriller “Final Destination Bloodlines,” which was landed within the No. 1 spot final Friday, upon its launch, fell two notches to 3rd with a $5.5 million take.
Tying for fourth with $2.4 million every was “Sinners,” on its sixth Friday in theaters, and “Thunderbolts*” on its fourth.
The bull-riding drama “The Last Rodeo,” which was launched on Friday, took the fifth spot with gross sales of near $2.1 million.
