Lilo & Stitch Win Weekend Box Office
This past weekend movie theaters won big with a hug Memorial Day Weekend with Regal, AMC, Markus and Cinemark breaking records in attendance. Regal announced 3 million guest chose their theaters alone over the weekend. Giving a nice boost to theater owners over the start of the Summer movie season.
Lilo and Stitch top the weekend earning $192.7 million, and $361.3 million globally. Coming in second was the new Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning coming ending the weekend with $79 million domestically and a franchise-high $191 million globally.
According to Box Office Pro Hispanic’s showed up for the Disney Lilo and Stitch movie leading demographic attending the movie.
Hispanic (39%)
Caucasian (34%)
AA (12%)
NatAm/Other (8%)
Asian (7%)
In addition when broken down into age groups Millenials and Gen Z were the largest age groups attending theaters in support of the move.
12 & Under – 15%
13-17 – 10%
18-24 – 16%
25-34 – 30%
35-44 – 18%
45-54 – 8%
55+ – 4%
Internationally Mexico was the topped the 10 highest markets with United Kingdom and Brazil rounding out the top three.
Lilo & Stitch – Opening Weekend
Top Ten Overseas Markets
1. Mexico | $23.7M
2. UK | $12.9M
3. Brazil | $11.1M
4. France | $10.7M
5. Italy | $9.2M
6. China | $8.3M
7. Germany | $8.0M
8. Spain | $6.8M
9. Australia | $6.0M
10. Central America | $5.7M
When it come to the second new film of the Memorial Day Weekend Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning the weekend made $79 million and globally $191 million. The breakdown on the dmographics are below:
58% Caucasian
15% Hispanic
11% Asian
10% Black
6% NatAm/other
Korea lead the top 10 overall global markets over the weekend with Japan and the United Kingdom rounding out the top international numbers.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – Opening Weekend
Top Ten Overseas Markets
1. Korea | $12.7M
2. Japan | $11.0M
3. United Kingdom | $10.7M
4. India | $9.0M
5. France | $7.8M
6. Australia | $7.7M
7. Taiwan | $6.3M
8. Germany | $6.0M
9. Mexico | $3.9M
10. United Arab Emirates | $3.6M
This is a great start to the summer season with Karate Kid Legends opening this Friday and Ballerina opening the week after. Learn more about the box office by visiting Box Office Pro for more information.