Battle at the Box Office 5/26/25
Making up for the disaster that was Snow White earlier this year, Lilo & Stitch took the top spot at the box office and had the best opening ever for the Memorial Day weekend.
Lilo & Stitch opened to $145.5 million for the three-day weekend with a projected $183 million for the four-day holiday weekend. It’s the best four-day Memorial Day weekend ever, and the three-day weekend right between Inside Out 2 and Moana 2, which is solid company to be in, given their insanely good box office performance. Lilo & Stitch has $341.7 million worldwide, which is already over $100 million more than Snow White made in its entire run. Audiences gave Lilo & Stitch an A CinemaScore, so word of mouth will be fantastic, and the movie should stick around on the charts for a while.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning also did well, posting the best opening ever for the franchise with a $64 million three-day opening and a projected $77 million for the holiday 4 day weekend. Worldwide, the movie has made $204.5 million. The movie got an A- CinemaScore, so it should hold well, but its almost three-hour run time will limit the number of times it can be shown, and we’ll have to see how repeat business does given that time commitment.
Final Destination: Bloodlines held well for a horror movie with a 53% drop from last weekend. It made another $24 million and is now at $94.1 million domestically and $186.7 million worldwide. It’s the highest-grossing film domestically of the franchise, and it has probably already passed The Final Destination to become the highest-grossing entry worldwide.
Sinners and Thunderbolts* rounded out the top 5, with Sinners now at $338.9 million worldwide and Thunderbolts* at $355.7 million worldwide.
The Last Rodeo opened outside the top 5 at sixth place with $5.2 million. That’s slightly below the last movie Neal McDonough starred in for Angel Studios, Homestead, and also below Cabrini. It definitely won’t be the shocking summer hit that Sound of Freedom was back in 2023.
Friendship stayed in seventh place with a massive expansion into over 1,000 theaters. It made another $4.5 million and has made $6.6 million domestically.
The best per-theater average went to Lilo & Stitch, which earned $32,993 in each of its 4,410 theaters.
