"With Mr. Cruise, you can never count him down or out," Angela Bassett tells PEOPLE of costar Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is in theaters now The eighth film in the Tom Cruise action franchise,

“Lilo & Stich” teamed with Tom Cruise for a monster Memorial Day box office weekend.Disney's live action version of “Lilo & Stich” earned a staggering $145.5 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, the second biggest domestic opening of the year after “A Minecraft Movie.”The movie is a faithful remake of the 2002 original's story of a six-legged alien and a Hawaiian girl that has created a big cult following in the decades since.Paramount Pictures' “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” the eighth and (probably) last appearance of Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a nearly three-decade run, was a distant second domestically, but still brought in a franchise record $63 million through Sunday, out-earning “Mission Impossible: Fallout,” which opened domestically to $61 million in 2018.And the spy thriller with Christopher McQuarrie directing for the first time in the franchise was the top global earner with $127 million," with “Lilo & Stich” bringing in $111 million.The previous film, 2023’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days in a July opening, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over a three-day weekend.

Another big winner this weekend is Hannah Waddingham, who stars in both the live-action Disney remake and Tom Cruise's last outing as Ethan Hunt.

Lilo & Stitch' made $183 million at the domestic box office, while 'Mission: Impossible' earned $77 million Disney's favorite blue alien bested popcorn's number one fan Tom Cruise for a big win at the Memorial Day weekend box office.

Disney's live-action Lilo and Stitch remake and Tom Cruise's supposedly final Mission: Impossible outing have opened as two of the biggest films of the year in a record-breaking weekend at the box office. Lilo and Stitch, which revisits the 2002 animated family favourite, exceeded expectations with takings of $341m (£252m) around the world.

Esai Morales is on a death-defying mission to make Tom Cruise’s life impossible, yet again, in the latest installment of the “Mission: Impossible” action film franchise. Titled “The Final Reckoning,” the movie was released Friday.

It didn’t have Tom Cruise dangling from an airplane — it didn’t even have Peter Graves thumbing through IMF dossiers in his apartment — but the Mission: Impossible TV pilot still managed to light the fuse on one of Hollywood’s biggest action franchises.