Disney‘s Lilo & Stitch has teed up this summer’s box office to arguably become the best one since Covid with a projected $4.2 billion in the U.S. and Canada after breaking a slew of records over its opening Memorial Day weekend frame.
The $100 million live-action feature take of the 2002 animated classic broke even thanks to its rich merchandise and ancillaries, with a breakeven point of $205 million worldwide per film finance analysts.
Let’s take a look at all the box office records it has broken.
Domestic Box Office
Biggest 4-Day Memorial Day Weekend Box Office Ever, at $182.6M, unseating 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick ($160.5M).
Biggest Opening Ever For a Rideback Production, with a 3-day of $146M, besting It: Chapter One‘s $123.4M.
Biggest Opening Ever for Director Dean Fleischer Camp. His previous opening was A24’s Marcel the Shell With Shoes On at $159,000 from six theaters.
Biggest 3-day Opening for a PG Movie In May, ahead of 2007’s Shrek the Third ($121.6M).
Biggest Tuesday In May for a PG Movie at $15.2M, ahead of Disney’s Aladdin ($12M) in 2019.
Biggest 4-day Memorial Day Weekend at Domestic Box Office For All Films at $329.8M, per Comscore, unseating Memorial Day Weekend 2013 which minted $314.3M after Fast & Furious 6 led with a $117M opening.
OTHER NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
Second Biggest 4-Day Holiday Opening, after Black Panther‘s $242.1M in its debut over the 2018 Presidents Day weekend.
Second Biggest Opening YTD after Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie ($162.7M).
Third Biggest Opening for a Disney Live-Action Feature Adaptation of a Classic Toon, behind 2019’s The Lion King ($191.7M) and 2017’s Beauty and the Beast ($174.7M).
Fifth Biggest Monday of All-Time at $36.5M, after Black Panther ($40.15M, February 19, 2018), Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($40.10M, December 21, 2015), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($37.1M, December 20, 2021) and Avengers: Endgame ($36.8M, April 29, 2019).
AMC and Odeon’s Most Attended 5 Days YTD at 7 million, combined both stateside and abroad. AMC is reporting, but not providing numbers, that it was the chain’s most-attended Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. since 2013. It was also the No. 1 exhibitor’s third-best 5-day (Thursday-Monday) in more than decade when it came to overall revenue (admissions plus concessions).
Regal Cinemas’ Most Attended Memorial Day Weekend Ever with more than 3 million moviegoers at the nation’s No. 2 chain. It also served 103 million buckets of popcorn.
International Box Office
Highest Opening YTD for an MPA Movie at the International Box Office YTD at $158.7M.
Highest Disney Live-Action Opening of All Time Across Latin America. Mexico was the No. 1 market with $27M, Brazil was third with $12.2M.
Worldwide Box Office
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
Third highest Disney Live-Action Worldwide Opening at $342M, behind The Lion King ($433M) and Beauty and the Beast ($357).
Disney First Studio To Cross $2 Billion YTD, ahead of all other studios at the global box office.