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America Has Biggest Three-Day Weekend Box Office Ever


It's America's biggest box office for a Memorial Day weekend ever, reports Variety. And it's been more than a decade since this many America's went to see a movie during a three-day weekend... Families turned out in force for Disney's live-action "Lilo & Stitch" remake, which collected a blo...

It's a huge improvement from last year, which started with a whimper rather than a bang as "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" and "Garfield" led the holiday's worst showing in three decades with $132 million collectively. "Every film on the release calendar for the rest of the summer is going to benefit from the momentum created over this monumental record-breaking Memorial weekend in theaters," says senior Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian. Meanwhile, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning is one of the most expensive films of all time, according to the article, costing $400 million as Tom Cruise and the movie's director "worked through a pandemic and two strikes, all while grappling with inflation."

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