Box office: The Lilo & Stitch remake beats the Mission: Impossible sequel in a record-setting weekend

Also: Neal McDonough, who worked on the Tom Cruise movie that beat the original Lilo & Stitch at the box office 23 years ago, starred in his third movie for Angel Studios this week.

Stitch in Lilo & Stitch and Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning.

A few of this week’s highlights:

• Lilo & Stitch had the 3rd-best opening of any live-action or photorealistic remake of a Disney cartoon, as well as the best Memorial Day opening ever.

• Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning had the best three-day weekend in the franchise’s history (if you count Thursday “previews” as part of the weekend), and one of the six or seven best openings of any film that didn’t open at #1. (It is the first Mission: Impossible movie that was not #1 in its first weekend of wide release.)

• Final Destination: Bloodlines, which opened just a week ago, is already the 9th-highest-grossing R-rated horror movie of the decade.

• Sinners is now the 11th-highest-grossing R-rated movie of any genre, ever, in North America.

• The Last Rodeo, the third Angel Studios film to star Neal McDonough, landed right between the openings for his first two films with that studio.

• The King of Kings is now the 7th “faith-based” film and the 5th Bible movie of the past half-century to gross at least $60 million in North America.

Fun fact: This is the second time a Lilo & Stitch movie has opened on the same weekend as a Tom Cruise action movie. In June 2002, the Tom Cruise movie—Minority Report—won the weekend by just a few hundred thousand bucks. This time, the Lilo & Stitch movie grossed more than double what the Tom Cruise movie made.

Also amusing: The original Lilo & Stitch featured Ving Rhames—the only actor besides Cruise who has appeared in every single Mission: Impossible movie—in a key role, while Minority Report featured Neal McDonough, the star of The Last Rodeo, in a supporting role. So there are multiple links to that weekend this week.

In addition to Mission: Impossible’s new franchise record and Lilo & Stitch’s new Memorial Day opening-weekend record, the two films helped set a collective record as all films combined were set to gross at least $326 million over the four-day holiday weekend, beating the record $314.2 million that was set in 2013, when the top new films were Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III, and the animated Epic.

Notably, Lilo and Mission: Impossible together account for roughly 80% of this weekend’s grosses, whereas the top two Memorial Day films in 2013 accounted for only 53% of that weekend’s grosses. In addition to the three new hits that came out that weekend, theatres also had strong holdovers from the first few weeks of May like Iron Man 3, Star Trek into Darkness, and The Great Gatsby to rely on back then.

And now, a few more stats and facts re: this week’s top ten, title by title: