SUNDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: Disney’s Lilo & Stitch has come in well ahead of pre-weekend projections, with a massive $341.7M global start when factoring in the holiday Monday in the U.S. If counting just the domestic Friday-Saturday-Sunday, the worldwide total is $304.2M. The international box office portion through Sunday is $158.7M.
With this weekend counted, The Walt Disney Studios global box office has crossed $2B ($2.083B), making it the first studio in 2025 to reach the milestone.
Meanwhile, the other massive opener this weekend, Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning flew to a franchise best domestically, internationally and globally. The offshore number from 64 markets is $127M through today. On a like-for-like basis, the overseas result is 7% ahead of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.
The worldwide debut is $204M when including the U.S. Monday holiday, and $190M through Sunday. With just the FSS domestic numbers, this is already a new record for the franchise’s biggest worldwide launch.
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PREVIOUS, SATURDAY: Big weekend at the global and international box office as Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning take center stage.
Lilo & Stitch, the live-action take on 2002’s animated adventure, started rollout on Wednesday and is now playing in 50 material offshore markets, grossing $56.3M through the first three days overseas.
Included in that bunch are the biggest opening days of the year in France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Mexico and Spain. That’s great news, especially as this is a family property with no offshore holidays, and ahead of the key Saturday and Sunday plays.
Internationally, the full opening frame is expected to come in ahead of pre-weekend projections. Along with domestic, the global opening has already exceeded $100M with $111.3M through yesterday.
The little blue alien’s top markets through Friday are Mexico ($9.4M), UK ($4.2M), France ($4.1M), Italy ($3.8M), Brazil ($3.7M), Germany ($2.5M), Central America ($2.2M), China ($2M/$5.7M through Saturday – not reflected in totals above), Spain ($2M).
The other mega movie in the mix this frame, Tom Cruise-starrer Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, is at $75.9M through Friday in 64 offshore markets (80% of the footprint). The Christopher McQuarrie-directed actioner has had extensive previews that began last weekend, as we noted in our global preview, and through Friday, it’s running 8% ahead of the 2023 installment, which had similar previews, at the same point.
Along with domestic, the global total through Friday is $100.7M.
The top markets are as follows, all are including previews: Korea ($8.9M), Japan ($6.5M), Australia ($5.4M), UK ($5.M/No. 2), France ($3.9M), Germany ($3.6M), Mexico ($1.9M), Brazil ($1.5M), Spain ($570K).
Important to note that this is not a race between the two movies. Rather, it’s a terrific energizer for cinemas around the world. Both Lilo and Mission are scoring with critics and with audiences; it’s a wonderful way to kick off summer moviegoing.
We’ll have a full update on Sunday.
