Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning are set to drive the North American box office to a huge Memorial Day holiday weekend, with the aggregate gross for all films over the four-day period expected to be as high as $300m.
The total will certainly beat last year’s Memorial Day weekend tally of $132m and could approach the record for the late May holiday span of $314m, set in 2013 when Fast & Furious 6 and The Hangover Part III were the weekend’s new releases.
Disney’s Lilo & Stitch is looking like a powerful draw after grossing $14.5m from Thursday (May 22) previews. The live-action version of the studio’s 2002 animated hit had the biggest preview opening of 2025 and the seventh biggest ever for a PG release, beating the $13.8m for Moana 2, which went on to open with $225m over five days.
Lilo & Stitch is launching in 4,410 theatres in North America and some sources are predicting a gross of $150m from the four-day weekend.
Paramount and Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is also looking strong, grossing an estimated $8.3m at the domestic box office from Thursday previews in around 3,300 locations.
The early gross beat the $7m from Tuesday previews taken by most recent Mission: Impossible franchise entry Dead Reckoning in 2023 and the $6m from Thursday previews scored by 2018’s Fallout, the franchise’s domestic champion with a lifetime North American gross of $220m.
The Final Reckoning, the eighth entry in the Tom Cruise-led franchise, opens Friday (May 23) in 3,857 domestic locations. Sources are predicting a four-day take of $75m-$80m.
Internationally, Lilo & Stitch has already opened in 41 markets, earning an estimated $26.7m over its first two days. The family film had the highest opening days of 2025 to date in markets including France, Germany, Italy, China, Brazil and Mexico.
After Cruise and other cast members made a splash attending a screening at the Cannes festival, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opens this week in 64 markets including Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain and the UK.
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