Followers enthusiastically flocked to theaters over the highest-grossing Memorial Day weekend of all time to witness each Lilo & Sew and Mission: Unimaginable — The Closing Reckoning, which mixed to create their very own Barbenheimer-esque occasion on the field workplace: Sew Potential! Nonetheless, very similar to the head-to-head match-up between Barbie ($162 million) and Oppenheimer ($82.5 million) over their very own opening weekend in July 2023, there was a transparent winner right here, too, and it was Disney beating out Tom Cruise’s newest on-screen shenanigans as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. In actual fact, the Mouse Home’s new Lilo & Sew blew Cruise’s stunt-filled Mission: Unimaginable 8 out of the water en path to changing into the No. 1 movie over the vacation body.
Lilo & Sew made an estimated $180 million domestically (four-day) and $145.5 million (three-day), whereas No. 2 Mission: Unimaginable 8 introduced dwelling $77 million (four-day) and $63 million (three-day). The 2 blockbusters mixed with all of the weekend’s different titles for a complete of $322 million, which not solely marked the highest-grossing weekend of 2025, however it additionally set a file for the most important Memorial Day weekend of all time. The large file beforehand belonged to the summer season of 2013 ($314.2 million), which was led by the titles Quick & Livid 6, The Hangover Half III, Star Trek Into Darkness, Epic, and Iron Man 3, in that order. Lilo & Sew’s $180 million additionally broke the Memorial Day file for greatest opening weekend by a single movie, which was beforehand held by High Gun: Maverick’s $161 million debut again in 2022.
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Sew Potential not solely proved to be barely extra profitable than Barbenheimer over the double options’ respective opening weekends, however Lilo & Sew’s particular person numbers additionally bode nicely for the movie changing into the primary home launch to succeed in the billion-dollar mark in 2025. To date, A Minecraft Film has come closest to the coveted milestone at $939.9 million, however solely Beijing Enlight Photos’ Ne Zha 2 has crossed the billion-dollar threshold this 12 months with an astounding $1.89 billion.
‘Lilo & Sew’ and ‘Mission: Unimaginable 8’ Experience Monetary Wave Throughout Worldwide Stage
Final weekend’s field workplace champ, Closing Vacation spot: Bloodlines, continued to scare up enterprise at No. 3 over the weekend with $19.7 million (three-day) regardless of the juggernaut double function of Lilo & Sew and Mission: Unimaginable — The Closing Reckoning dominating the field workplace domestically. Nonetheless, the newly dubbed Sew Potential phenomenon didn’t cease making a living in the US and Canada. No, the cinematic energy couple unleashed its dominance on the worldwide stage.
Along with Lilo & Sew’s $180 million home take, the brand new Disney movie additionally cleaned up abroad en path to a world haul of $304.2 million (three-day) and $342 million (four-day). In the meantime, Mission: Unimaginable 8 additionally carried out nicely on overseas soil, which led to a worldwide take of $190 million (three-day) and $204 million (four-day). Thunderbolts* checked in at No. 4 over the vacation body with one other $9.2 million (three-day), which brings the MCU’s newest big-screen installment to $353.1 million, however director Jake Schreier’s superhero flick remains to be sitting shy of the $400 million mark after its fourth weekend of launch.
Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners rounded out the Memorial Day weekend’s High 5 with $8.8 million (three-day). The must-see vampire thriller didn’t formally open throughout the summer season film season, however it has nonetheless change into one of many massive surprises in cinemas. Sinners has now made $336.6 million on the worldwide field workplace with a manufacturing finances of solely $90 million. Director Jon Avnet’s The Final Rodeo by no means had an opportunity of competing with fellow newcomers Lilo & Sew and Mission: Unimaginable 8 over the weekend, however the modern-day Western drama did nicely sufficient on the field workplace to test in at No. 6 with a decent $5.3 million (three-day).
Karate Child: Legends joins the 2025 summer season film season on Might 30. The Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio team-up is forecast to make someplace between $35 million and $45 million throughout its opening weekend regardless of boasting the shortest runtime of any Karate Child film thus far at solely 94 minutes. Realistically, Legends does have an opportunity to compete with Mission: Unimaginable 8 for second place subsequent weekend, however even when Lilo & Sew drops 50% between its debut and subsequent week, Experiment 626’s reimagining will nonetheless simply win the No. 1 spot with $73 million to $90 million.
Supply: The Numbers
Lilo & Sew
- Launch Date
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Might 21, 2025
- Runtime
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108 Minutes
- Director
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Dean Fleischer Camp
- Writers
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Chris Kekaniokalani Brilliant, Mike Van Waes, Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
- Producers
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Tom C. Peitzman, Dan Lin, Ryan Halprin