The second weekend of Lilo & Stitch<\/em> and Mission: Impossible – The Last Billing<\/em> in North America saw an estimated $63 million in ticket sales. According to ComScore, the overall weekend fund was $149.2 million, with the total box office tally reaching $3.4 billion. This represents a 26% increase from the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n Lilo & Stitch<\/em>, the live-action restart of Disney’s popular animation, has taken the top spot at the box office, with a total of $280.1 million after its record-breaking Memorial Day weekend. The film has surpassed Warner Bros.’ Sinner<\/em> to become the second-highest grossing film in North America this year, and has helped Disney reach $1 billion in ticket sales with a market share of over 30%.<\/p>\n The 57% drop in ticket sales for Lilo & Stitch<\/em> is comparable to other tentpole films such as The Little Mermaid<\/em> (-57%) and Aladdin<\/em> (-53%). The film is expected to earn more in its second weekend than the total of all top-10 films in the corresponding weekend in 2024, including Mufasa: The Lion King<\/em> ($255m) and Maleficent<\/em> ($241m).<\/p>\n The success of Lilo & Stitch<\/em> can be attributed to the familiarity and nostalgia for the original 2002 film among millennials who are now taking their children to see the new film. This is in contrast to an 88-year-old property like Snow White<\/em>, which may be too old for families to care about, and could explain the disappointing performance of the spring release of the remake.<\/p>\n Mission: Impossible – The Last Billing<\/em> took second place at the box office, with a total of $122.6 million in North America. The film, which is the final installment in the franchise with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, has earned $353.8 million worldwide, but needs an adrenaline boost to recoup its production costs of $400 million.<\/p>\n Columbia Pictures’ Karate Kid: Legends<\/em> opened in third place, with a flat $21 million. The film is another example of a studio mining its IP, and stars Ben Wang as a child prodigy who is taught by franchise stalwarts Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio. The film received an A- CinemaScore rating and 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, with studio executives expecting it to perform well with some schools already on vacation and no other family films entering the market until How to Train Your Kite<\/em> in two weeks.<\/p>\n The Phoenician program arrived with $570,000 from six locations through Focus Features, while A24 opened R-rated horror film Bring Her Back<\/em> in fifth place with an estimated $7.1 million from 2,449 locations. The film, which stars Sally Hawkins, tells the story of siblings who uncover a sinister ritual in their foster mother’s house.<\/p>\n The top five films at the box office for the weekend were:<\/p>\n Weekend Box Office Report The second weekend of Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Last Billing in North America saw an estimated $63 million in ticket sales. According to ComScore, the overall weekend fund was $149.2 million, with the total box office tally reaching $3.4 billion. This represents a 26% increase from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12149,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147\/revisions\/12149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Disney’s Success with Lilo & Stitch<\/h2>\n
Comparison to Other Films<\/h2>\n
Nostalgia and Familiarity<\/h2>\n
Mission: Impossible – The Last Billing<\/h2>\n
Other New Releases<\/h2>\n
Indie Releases<\/h2>\n
Weekend Box Office Rankings<\/h2>\n
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