It’s a Memorial Day weekend for the box office record books. Movie theaters across the country were jamming as “Lilo & Stitch” and Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” fueled the largest Memorial Day holiday in history — and established several other benchmarks in the process.

The two films delivered the biggest Memorial Day picnic in history at the box office, while 'Lilo' supplanted Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' as the holiday's top opener of all time, among numerous other feats.

Disney's live-action redo and Paramount's blockbuster sequel combined with holdovers to lead the holiday weekend to levels not seen in over a decade The post 5 Takeaways From a Record-Breaking $328 Million Memorial Day Box Office Led by ‘Lilo & Stitch,