In their second weekends, Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning added an estimated $63m and $27.3m respectively in North Am
In their second weekends, Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning added an estimated $63m and $27.3m respectively in North America, while Wes Anderson’s Cannes Competition premiere The Phoenician Scheme delivered the highest per-theatre score of the year to date.
Lilo & Stitch, Disney Live Action’s reboot of the studio’s popular animation, held on to top spot and now stands at $280.1m after last weekend’s record Memorial Day holiday weekend launch.
It has overtaken Warner Bros’ Sinners to rank as the second highest-grossing release in North American so far this year, and helped the studio become the first in 2025 to cross $1bn in ticket sales and achieve a year-to-date market share of more than 30%.
A 57% drop is in line with tentpoles like The Little Mermaid (-57%) and Aladdin (-53%), and Lilo & Stitch is projected to earn more in its second session than the $60m combined total of all the top 10 films from the corresponding session in 2024. It has already surpassed the final grosses of Disney Live Action’s Mufasa: The Lion King ($255m) and Maleficent ($241m).
As Screen reported last week, part of the film’s successful formula may be down to familiarity and nostalgia for the 2002 original among Millennials, who are taking their children to see the modern film.
That is in stark contrast to an 88-year-old property like Snow White, which observers have noted is too vintage for families to care about and may partly explain the disappointing performance of that remake’s early spring release. However it could bode well for the June 13 release of Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s live-action retelling of How To Train Your Dragon, which is based on the 2010 animation,
Meanwhile in second place Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Paramount/Skydance’s is-it-isn’t it franchise finale starring Tom Cruise as super spy Ethan Hunt, now stands at $122.6m in North America. Imax accounted for $5.6m of the weekend, indexing at 21% of the gross and lifting its running total to $24.9m.
The tentpole has grossed $353.8m, however it needs an adrenaline boost if it come close to breaking even, given a reported $400m production cost. The previous episode Dead Reckoning Part One finished on $571m at the worldwide box office.
Columbia Pictures’ Karate Kid: Legends opened at number three and is another example of a studio mining its IP. The film arrived on a flat $21m, in part due to confusion among audiences who got used to watching the 2018 spin-off series Cobra Kai at home on Netflix. Ben Wang plays a martial arts prodigy who gets tutored by franchise stalwarts Jackie Chan as Mr. Han and Ralph Macchio, who portrayed Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 original and in Cobra Kai.
This opening weekend was nowhere near the unadjusted $55.7m three-day launch by the 2010 reboot starring Jaden Smith that went on to gross $176.6m in North America and $359m worldwide to rank comfortably as the top entry in the saga. The original opened on $5m, which adjusts for inflation to $15.5m.
Studio executives noted an A- CinemaScore rating and 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and said they expected the PG-13 family film to play well with some schools already on holiday and no other family film entering the market until How To Train Your Dragon in two weeks.
The Phoenician Scheme arrived on $570,000 from six locations through Focus Features, for the best per-theatre average for the year-to-date on $95,000, overtaking the $74,000 scored by Friendship.
Anderson’s latest slice of whimsy about a family business expands into approximately 1,500 sites next weekend and stars Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, and Benedict Cumberbatch, among others.
Warner Bros said Final Destination: Bloodlines in fourth place added $10.8m for an $111.7m running total after three weekends. Sinners stands at $267.1m after seven, and A Minecraft Movie has reached $423m after nine.
A24 opened horror Bring Her Back and it earned an estimated $7.1m from 2,449 locations. Sally Hawkins stars in the story about siblings who uncover a terrifying ritual at the home of their foster mother.
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