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Box Office: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Riding the Wave to Biggest Memorial Day Weekend Ever, ‘Mission: Impossible’ Cruises to $24.8 Million Opening Day
Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' had a franchise-high opening day, while the 'Lilo & Stitch' remake eyes a record Memorial Day debut.
But theaters get not one, but two blockbusters this weekend, with Paramount’s “ Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning ” taking in $24.8 million on opening day — a franchise-best figure for Tom Cruise ‘s long-running espionage series. Paramount and Skydance Media are practically pot committed to “The Final Reckoning,” which sports an impressive $400 million production budget, making it one of the most expensive films ever made, even before accounting for its global marketing blitz. The price tag ballooned as Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie (who helmed the past three entries as well) worked on the film through COVID protocols, two Hollywood strikes and inflation increases spanning a years-long production.
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