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5 Reasons Why ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Shattered Memorial Day Box Office Records
Here are five reasons why "Lilo & Stitch" shattered box office records in its opening weekend.
“Lilo & Stitch” — a comedy about a chaotic alien who crash-lands in Hawaii and gets adopted by a young girl and her older sister — toppled into theaters with ideal distance from the original adventure, which has become a family favorite on Disney+ over the last 23 years. In post-pandemic times, Hollywood has seen that effective counterprogramming plays — think “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” or last Thanksgiving’s trio of “Wicked,” “Gladiator II” and “Moana 2” — don’t cannibalize grosses. It’s been more than a decade since this many people went to the movies over the holiday frame; the prior record was established in 2013 with $314 million, led by “Fast & Furious 6,” “The Hangover Part III” and “Star Trek Into Darkness.”
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