Lilo & Stitch dominates box office to become second-highest grossing film of 2025

“Lilo & Stich” and “Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” dominated the box office charts again after fueling a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend.Theaters in the US and Canada had several new films to offer this weekend as well, including Sony’s family friendly “Karate Kid: Legends” and the A24 horror movie “Bring Her Back. ”According to studio estimates Sunday, it added up to a robust $149 million post-holiday weekend that’s up over 120% from the same timeframe last year.Disney’s live-action hybrid “Lilo & Stitch” took first place again with $63 million from 4,410 locations in North America.It was enough to pass “Sinners” to become the second-highest grossing movie of the year with $280.1 million in domestic ticket sales.

Globally, its running total is $610.8 million.“Sinners,” meanwhile, is still going strong in its seventh weekend with another $5.2 million, bumping it to $267.1 million domestically and $350.1 million globally.The eighth “Mission: Impossible” movie also repeated in second place, with $27.3 million from 3,861 locations.As with “Lilo & Stitch,” that’s down 57% from its opening.

With $122.6 million in domestic tickets sold, it’s performing in line with the two previous installments.But with a reported production budget of $400 million, profitability is a ways off.Internationally, it added $76.1 million (including $25.2 million from China where it just opened), bringing its global total to $353.8 million.“This is the year of longterm playability,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst.

“The currency of word of mouth and the strong hold is more important than opening weekend dollars.”Leading the newcomers was Sony’s “Karate Kid: Legends,” with an estimated $21 million from 3,809 locations.The movie brings Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio together to train a new kid, the kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Ben Wang).

Chan starred in a 2010 reboot of the ...