Tom Cruise’s latest film, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, has landed in second place at the box office. The highly anticipated installment of the thriller franchise was surpassed by Disney’s Lilo & Stitch during the opening weekend for both movies.
It’s fair to say that Disney’s live-action release of Lilo & Stitch is compensating for the disappointment caused by the live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Based on the 2002 animated feature film, Lilo & Stitch is projected to achieve a record-breaking four-day holiday weekend opening of $180 million, according to Deadline.
This is a rather impressive feat considering it went head-to-head against Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible series, which was expected to open to a franchise-best $77 million. In contrast, Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler in the titular role and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, earned $42.2 million.
While Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning sees Tom Cruise reprise his role as Ethan Hunt, Maia Kealoha made her film debut as Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch, with the original’s writer-director, Chris Sanders, reprising his voice role as Stitch.
