Last year, theater owners and industry professionals wrung their hands as Memorial Day box office performance tanked. This year could not be more different.

It’s a Memorial Day weekend for the box office record books. Movie theaters across the country were jamming as “Lilo & Stitch” and Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” fueled the largest Memorial Day holiday in history — and established several other benchmarks in the process.

This was the biggest Memorial Day weekend in history for movie theaters, thanks in part to Disney’s live-action “Lilo & Stitch.” Live-Action “Lilo & Stitch” Opening Weekend The remake made an estimated $145.