- Lilo & Stitch takes in $32.5 million this weekend domestically and a staggering $100.2 million globally.
- Ryan Coogler’s Sinners earns the title of the decade’s most profitable film based on original material.
- Fellow live action-animated hybrid remake, How to Train Your Dragon, will challenge Lilo & Stitch‘s dominance at next weekend’s box office.
Surf’s up again at the weekend box office for Disney, whose latest live-action remake (with a major dose of 3D animation thrown in), Lilo & Stitch dominated the domestic and global charts in its third week of release.
After shattering records alongside Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning during their Memorial Day debuts, the Hawaii-set family dramedy has continued to score major numbers, earning $32.5 million this weekend domestically and a staggering $100.2 million globally, per Comscore. That global haul nearly doubled that of its closest competitor, the eighth film in the Mission: Impossible franchise, which scored $55.6 million globally for the No. 2 spot and $15 million domestically for No. 3.
Another impressive record was shattered this weekend, but not by Lilo or Tom Cruise. Ryan Coogler’s period vampire horror Sinners raked in $2.9 million domestically in its eighth week of release for to-date gross of $272.6 million domestically and $357.2 globally. That has earned it the title of the decade’s most profitable film based on original material, per Box Office Report.
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Several other films based on original material ranked among the box office top 10 this weekend. Wes Anderson’s latest curio, The Phoenician Scheme, held strong in its second week of release to score the No. 6 spot with a $6.2 million take. Bring Her Back, the latest nightmare from former YouTube wizzes Danny and Michael Philippou, earned $3.5 in its second week for the No. 7 spot.
But back at the top, driving a wedge this weekend between Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible, is Ballerina, the new John Wick spinoff film starring Ana de Armas. The uber-gory action thriller debuted to a strong $25 million domestically, with $51 million globally.
In the fourth and fifth spots on the domestic charts this weekend are two late entires in long-running franchises: Karate Kid: Legends and Final Destination Bloodlines. The latter film, which scored the top spot in its mid-May opening weekend, grossed $6.5 million for a $123.5 million to-date gross, while the former added $8.7 million in its second week of release for a $35.4 million overall haul.
Other notable films on the domestic and global leaderboards this weekend include Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye, an animated offering from Japan’s GKids that, while technically not a movie, still premiered in the States to an impressive $3 million. Elsewhere, the Tamil gangster film Thug Life, from prolific Indian director Mani Ratnam, scored the No. 8 spot on the global leaderboard with a $9 million debut.
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Next weekend’s slate of new releases include several intriguing titles, but only one that presents a viable threat to Lilo & Stitch‘s dominance.
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Celine Song’s highly anticipated follow-up to the romantic drama Past Lives debuts on June 13. The Materialists follows a love triangle between jaded matchmaker Dakota Johnson and her two beaus, played by Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans. Western shooter The Unholy Trinity, starring Pierce Brosnan and Samuel L. Jackson, also bows, but the main contender entering the ring is How to Train Your Dragon, a live action-animated hybrid remake of the hit 2010 film.
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