America Has Biggest Three-Day Weekend Box Office Ever (variety.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/05/26/0320206/america-has-biggest-three-day-weekend-box-office-ever
- Source link: https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/lilo-stitch-mission-impossible-box-office-record-memorial-day-weekend-1236409718/
And it's been more than a decade since this many Americans went to see a movie during a three-day weekend...
> Families turned out in force for Disney's live-action "Lilo & Stitch" remake, which collected a blockbuster $145.5 million in its opening weekend and an estimated $183 million through Monday... Meanwhile, older audiences showed up to watch Paramount and Skydance's "Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning," which earned a series-best $63 million over the weekend and an estimated $77 million through Monday's holiday. This eighth installment just narrowly beat 2018's "Mission: Impossible — Fallout" ($61 million) to score the top debut of the 29-year-old franchise...
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> Thanks to effective counterprogramming — and a huge assist by holdovers like "Final Destination Bloodlines," "Thunderbolts*" and "Sinners" — this weekend delivered the best collective Memorial Day weekend haul with $322 million... Cinema operators are rejoicing because Memorial Day is the official launch to summer movie season, which is the most profitable stretch for the movie business. (Historically, the four-month period has accounted for $4 billion, or around 40% of the annual box office.)
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> It's a huge improvement from last year, which started with a whimper rather than a bang as "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" and "Garfield" led the holiday's [2] worst showing in three decades with $132 million collectively. "Every film on the release calendar for the rest of the summer is going to benefit from the momentum created over this monumental record-breaking Memorial weekend in theaters," says senior Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
But the top-earning movie of the year so far is A Minecraft Movie , which has apparently brought in over $940 million.
Meanwhile, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning is one of the most expensive films of all time, according to the article, costing $400 million as Tom Cruise and the movie's director "worked through a pandemic and two strikes, all while grappling with inflation." Though the film received a high "A-" grade on CinemaScore, a movie industry analyst tells Variety that the unexpectedly high production costs means the movie "will be lucky to break-even."
Fun fact: A quarter of a century ago, CmdrTaco [3]reviewed a new movie called Mission: Impossible 2 , calling it "a fun movie," but "no Gladiator " and sort of a "James Bond for Dummies" movie.
"The 'Plot' is really just an excuse to show us lots of explosions, car/motorcycle/helicoptor chases..."
[1] https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/lilo-stitch-mission-impossible-box-office-record-memorial-day-weekend-1236409718/
[2] https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/box-office-furiosa-just-barely-beats-garfield-disastrous-memorial-day-weekend-1236017039/
[3] https://news.slashdot.org/story/00/05/27/1625213/movie-reviewsmission-impossible-2
CmdrTaco sez (Score:2)
> The 'Plot' is really just an excuse to show us lots of explosions, car/motorcycle/helicoptor chases...
And this is bad because...?
Seriously, it's an ACTION movie! By your definition, Beastie Boys "Sabotage" is a horrible music video, as just one example.
Having watch MI-8 they really went all out showing Cruise doing his own stunts and the use of the best miniature cameras is what allows it. If you're a true nerd, you NEED to check out how they made these "2" movies (MI-7&8 were shot at the same time and are essentially 1 movie like Kill Bill, Matrix 2-3, etc), which is arguably more entertaining than the
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You still could have a writer do better than a children's cartoon and have action. It may not have any more than 30 minutes of plot between action scenes but that just means there is no excuse for not doing better!
I found the movie to be a mess of flashbacks that would get me to stop the stream or change channels if it were on TV. Seriously, they were never serious movies and most didn't make a lot of sense but I don't think most people are going to enjoy the fan boy call backs decades ago. I hardly rememb
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The original show was essentially this. Mr. Phelps, solve this absurd problem, and don't get caught. Okay, team, It'll be tricky, but we can do it. Sneaky, sneaky, look we melted the gold out of the safe, let's go home. All the kids cheer, because the cleverness was the entertainment. No emotional drama, no B story. No long term plot that I recall. I loved that show.
Re: CmdrTaco sez (Score:2)
The problem with mission Impossible is taking Tom Cruise seriously. He's really a horrible actor and person.
Easily... (Score:2)
They raise ticket prices incessantly and are reporting gross sales in dollars, not number of asses in seats.
Now do that in inflation-adjusted money (Score:3)
And rewrite your article to see how things measure up in real terms.
Impossible to watch (Score:2)
Omit the explosions, car chases, stunts, hanging from a helicopter and other in-betweens, the two Mission Impossible moves I'd been included in watching on home video were cardboard plots sanitized to get past the film standards requirements to be shown outside the US and EU.
Worn-out retread cardboard plot, cardboard dialogue, cardboard acting and an idea that explosions, car chases and stunts make a movie.
Mi$$ion Po$$ible. (Score:2)
> Worn-out retread cardboard plot, cardboard dialogue, cardboard acting and an idea that explosions, car chases and stunts make a movie.
They don’t make movies. They make money. The mindless worn-out retreaded storylines of Fast N Fasterest proved that over and over again for a decade.
One might even argue Hollywood hasn’t had an original thought for years. Because they haven’t had to. Took recycling to an obscene level. With writers going on..strike? That’s cute coming from the industry delivering Roger ReTread and the Seven Sequels 28 years later.
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Yes! How did this fare against Gone With the Wind ?
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Yes! I like to compare oranges to oranges.
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Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn:)
Re: Now do that in inflation-adjusted money (Score:2)
No, just count asses in seats. Fuck dollar value
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Yes, that works too.
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That, too, needs inflation adjustment. Population growth is a thing, too.