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Posted May 25, 2025 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: New Releases Dominate

Repeating a recently familiar pattern, a new release has once again claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend just prior to the elongated Memorial Day weekend as Lilo & Stitch debuted an astonishing $82.5 million ahead of the second-place debut of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

“Lilo & Stitch” posterIn its first weekend of release, the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures live-action release of the animated Lilo & Stitch took in the mammoth sum of $145.5 million, which was more than enough to claim first place of the box-office weekend. In second place, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning brought in $63.0 million for Paramount Pictures International over its first weekend in release. These debuts pushed last weekend’s top film, Final Destination: Bloodlines to third place where it took in $19.7 million for Warner Bros., lifting its two-week total to $89.8 million. Meanwhile, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw Thunderbolts* (aka The New Avengers) drop two spots to fourth place where it added $9.2 million, giving it a four-week total of $171.4 million. Also falling two spots was the Warner Bros. offering Sinners, which landed in fifth place this weekend with $8.8 million, bringing the film’s six-week total to $256.6 million.

The third debut of the weekend, The Last Rodeo, claimed sixth place with $5.3 million earned over its first weekend in release. Holding steady in seventh place was A24’s Friendship, which added $4.6 million over the weekend, bringing the film’s three-week total to $7.2 million for the studio. Plummeting four spots to finish in eighth place this weekend, was A Minecraft Movie which took in $2.2 million for Warner Bros., lifting the film’s eight-week total to $420.8 million. Also falling four spots this weekend was Amazon MGM Studios’ The Accountant 2 which claimed ninth place with $2.0 million. This gives the film a five-week total of $62.9 million. Finally, Lionsgate saw Hurry Up Tomorrow drop four spots to land in tenth place this weekend where it added $740,000, bringing its two-week total to $4.8 million.

Again, three films were forced from the top ten this weekend as the eighth- through tenth-place films from seven days ago all failed to make this week’s list. After two weeks in release, Clown in a Cornfield fell from the top ten after bringing in $6.4 million. Following four weeks in release, and a ninth-place finish last weekend, Until Dawn dropped from the top ten with an overall total on $19.6 million. Finally, the 20th Century Studios release The Amateur could not retain its place in the top ten this weekend and instead settled for a seven-week total of $40.6 million.

Weekend Box Office (May 23rd – May 25th)

      1. Lilo & Stitch…$145.5 Million
      2. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning…$63.0 Million
      3. Final Destination: Bloodlines…$19.7 Million
      4. Thunderbolts*…$9.2 Million
      5. Sinners…$8.8 Million
      6. The Last Rodeo…$5.3 Million
      7. Friendship…$4.6 Million
      8. A Minecraft Movie…$2.2 Million
      9. The Accountant 2…$2.0 Million
      10. Hurry Up Tomorrow…$740,000
Mike Tyrkus

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.