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\n What\u2019s the sitch, Stitch?
\n Photo: Disney\n <\/p>\n
Looks like Stitch and Tom Cruise aren\u2019t family, because the live-action Lilo & Stitch<\/a> is leaving Mission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning behind<\/a> at the box office. Both movies were released on May 23. Per Deadline<\/a>, the Disney remake, which is booked at 4,410 theaters, made $55 million on Friday. In comparison, Mission: Impossible 8<\/a>, booked at 3,857 theaters, opened to a little less than $25 million. Lilo & Stitch is reportedly on track to make between $170 million and $180 million for its four-day opening this Memorial Day weekend, which means it will comfortably cruise past the current holiday record set by Cruise\u2019s Top Gun: Maverick ($160.5 million) in 2022. There\u2019s no need to feel too sorry for Cruise, though. Mission: Impossible 8 is still going to be setting some franchise records at the box office this weekend. After its $25 million opening showing on Friday, the film is projected to reach $64 million after three days and $78 million after four days. That means it\u2019ll set new Mission: Impossible records, beating 2018\u2019s Fallout, which previously had the franchise\u2019s biggest opening ($22.8 million) and biggest 3-day ($61 million) performance.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time these two Hollywood stars have faced off before. Cruise previously edged out the original animated Lilo & Stitch at the box office with his 2002 film Minority Report, $35.6 million to $35.2 million, so this is payback more than 20 years in the making. Congrats, Stitch.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the sitch, Stitch? Photo: Disney Looks like Stitch and Tom Cruise aren\u2019t family, because the live-action Lilo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[11543,77,56208,42516,25206,3943,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-129074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-box-office","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-lilo-stitch","11":"tag-mission-impossible","12":"tag-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114565090084964582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}