‘Lilo & Stitch’ & ‘Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning’ To Fuel Near Half-Billion Combined Global Debut In A Memorial Day Weekend For The Record Books – Box Office Preview

No, the rest of the world doesn’t celebrate Memorial Day weekend, but with big blockbusters like Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, they should.
After an insufferable Memorial Day weekend last year in which Mad Max spinoff Furiosa didn’t create any heat, at one point coming close to getting capsized by Sony’s Garfield movie, Hollywood remembered, “Oh, Memorial Day weekend is for massive tentpoles” and has booked one for girls and one for boys in what’s amounting to another Barbenheimer weekend at the box office — a or Glicked weekend at the box office (back in pre-Thanksgiving 2024 when Wicked and Gladiator II dominated).
The total Memorial Day weekend beginning Friday looks to rival 2013’s high-water mark (when Fast & Furious 6 and Hangover III ruled), which,...
After an insufferable Memorial Day weekend last year in which Mad Max spinoff Furiosa didn’t create any heat, at one point coming close to getting capsized by Sony’s Garfield movie, Hollywood remembered, “Oh, Memorial Day weekend is for massive tentpoles” and has booked one for girls and one for boys in what’s amounting to another Barbenheimer weekend at the box office — a or Glicked weekend at the box office (back in pre-Thanksgiving 2024 when Wicked and Gladiator II dominated).
The total Memorial Day weekend beginning Friday looks to rival 2013’s high-water mark (when Fast & Furious 6 and Hangover III ruled), which,...
- 5/21/2025
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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