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Lilo & Stitch Gets Ahead Of Mission: Impossible In Massive Box Office WeekendFirst, there was Barbenheimer. Then, a month ago, there was Revenge Of The Sinners (as approximately nobody ever called it.) Now, as the summer box office hots up, a new clash of the cinematic titans has arrived — Mission: Stitchpossible! Yes, this past weekend saw both Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch remake and Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie's hotly anticipated Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning arrive in cinemas, smashing Memorial weekend cinemagoing records as Experiment 626 took a $341.7 million bite out of the box office and Ethan Hunt's latest outing lit the fuse to the tune of $204 million.

While Marcel The Shell With Shoes On director Dean Fleischer Camp's retooling of Disney's 2002 Hawaiian rollercoaster ride of a movie may have toppled Cruise's death-defying action hero across both movies' four-day opening weekend, the team behind The Final Reckoning won't be feeling too sore.