Lilo & Stitch is a monster hit, while Mission Impossible bombs

Bet Tammy's wig will get a nom.

Carrot Top, nice

MI is played out and only the Boomers like Tom.

I think the ads for MI are funny: SEE Tom do all these incredible stunts!

We are going to see Mission impossible tomorrow on an IMAX screen.

Do we need ANOTHER Mission Impossible movie? Let that franchise die

Suri, bring me the axe!

[quote]Esai Morales, who is Cruise’s age and not well-known.

Wow. So shady. Tom Cruise wishes he'd aged as wonderfully as Esai Morales.

I read that as “Esai Morales, who is Cruise’s agent”

R5 you have no choice how to see it. Big whoop.

Easi on the eyes….dreamy.

I knew MI would bomb. Too long. Star is too old, no one cares.

Looks like the U S was shut out oot of Cannes.

Stitch hasn't aged a bit.

I read that as Stritch. 👽

When it comes to genres, I don’t do silly, childish, animated or horror.

M:I — Final Reckoning takes a good 40 minutes to get going, but is quite good once you’re past the flashbacks and exposition. And there is something to be said for appealing to an older audience which has had the moviegoing habit since childhood. It’ll make money if not quite the billion it would need to break even.

But I’d still rather see real live actors doing shit than two-dimensional adolescent characters any day. And if that dates me, tough shit and fuck you all.

Should have kept Rebecca Ferguson and nixed Hayley Atwell.

Where was La cubana?

MI was far too long and some of the scenes dragged but when it got going it was great. But I can understand why the running time and slightly lacklustre cast hasn't appealed to a wider audience. Why would you go and see this if you didn't see the previous one or didn't enjoy it?

Sorry, Tammy, no one believes you in action roles anymore!

When did we ever?

[quote] M:I — Final Reckoning takes a good 40 minutes to get going, but

There's no "but" after that.

40 minutes is much too long to get going for an action film.

I'd love to see Lilo and Stritch.

"Sorry, Tammy, no one believes you in action roles anymore!"

More to the point, no one wants to see Tammy's saggy, 62-year- old tits bouncing around unharnessed.

R15 40 MINUTES? - that’s 100 websites I’m missing

In 2042 ChatGPT will give you Lilo and Stritch. Also: President Bongino.

[quote] In 2042 ChatGPT will give you Lilo and Stritch.

Now that is something I'd love to see.

LILO: "You know, you wreck everything you touch. Why not try and make something for a change?"

STRITCH: (Pause.) "LINE!"

Mission: Impossible supposedly cost in the neighborhood of $400 million because of the pandemic and the strikes. It's supposed to make around $77 on its opening weekend; becoming profitable is going to be a climb.

Especially if it drops 50% next weekend.

we were about to get tix for next week, but the 3-hours, plus the 40 minutes of AMC previews, and then La Kidman....is too much.

I feel a little sorry for Tammy since he talked IMAX into giving him a three week run in IMAX. I can only imagine that there will be sparsely attended IMAX screenings with a few seniors.

Getting old is not for the weak.

Hollywood is really dried out. A franchise film and a soulless remake.

LILO AND STITCH, once intended for Disney Plus, overperforms globally, brining in nearly $350 million worldwide; it is likely to do a billion.

Esai Morales is a vegetarian.

we've never been a Lilo & Stitch household

There is a huge cross generational audience for LILO and Stitch. It was a far better decision to release it in theaters.

Estimated global take for Mission Impossible Final Destination I Mean Reckoning is $200 million. What a note to go out on.

Esai Morales is a cat lover.

Hardly a bomb:

Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning after a $20M Saturday, -19% from Friday is still on course for a $63M 3-day, $77M 4-day. The Friday-Sunday take is [bold]easily an open record[/bold] for the Tom Cruise franchise, besting the bow of 2018’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout ($61.2M).

Plus, the fact that the audience is older likely means that the film will have more legs, as oldies don't feel the need to rush out on opening weekend.

Plus the fact that there was significant inflation just since 2018.

The gf and I both lost bets with each other, so she has to come with me to see L&S, and I have to go see MI with her, because she still thinks TC is a good actor.

Me: When was he EVER...

I'm betting that with enough remarks about the size of his nose in IMAX we'll stay home.

I believe it was the best opening day for a MI movie so no, not a flop. Just not as good as Lilo and Stitch.

[quote]Do we need ANOTHER Mission Impossible movie?

Do we need ANOTHER live action remake of a Disney cartoon?

What happened to them putting out original stories? It's just remakes after remakes now.

One film I want so bad to bomb is the upcoming Fantastic Four film.

Disney is forever. Many properties and big money. MI is a zombie franchise that needs to be put down for a few years and rebooted. Tammy needs to be moved to a farm in the country with lots of room to play.

[quote]Many properties and big money.

Which isn't a good thing. Even their parks are losing their quiet beauty in favor of commercialized rides featuring the latest character or movie. Disney World is in danger of becoming one extremely overpriced big product placement.

And sorry, but most of their live action remakes are absolute shit and will never hold a candle to the animated originals.

They're losing their touch.

I get that Tom Cruise is a workaholic but he should have quit MI on a high. It must be disappointing to have the final film bomb.

But it [italic]didn't[/italic] bomb, r47.

Did you not read the entirety of this thread? It made more money this opening weekend than any MI film ever has.

Even their parks are losing their quiet beauty…

Ha!

We don’t know yet if MIFR is a hit yet compared to its $400m budget. It’s a great opening but its weekly grosses are only downhill from here.

Since Stritch is not available a big screen collab of Lilo and Liza would be quite the thing.

R48 are you 12? Or, just a Gen Z publicist intern trying to spin this dud as a hit?

Not even Tammy can save dying Hollywood.

Going to watch MI tomorrow. No interest in the lazy, uncreative shit that is the Stitch remake.

Tammy was dumb. Should have made sure she had more franchises to milk.

Is "Cocktail 2" happening soon?

MI is not bombing. So far it's done better than any other movie in the franchise.

It was an extremely expensive film for a lot of reasons. That's the real problem.

And to be clear, emphasis on "so far". It's not going to beat the final total of the highest grossing titles in the series , but that's a prediction, not fact right now. It's done extremely well for a MI film to this point. Calling it a bomb is just not right

Cruise has another franchise — the “Top Gun” franchise, the followup to the original grossed $1.2 billion, so you can expect a third.

[quote]One film I want so bad to bomb is the upcoming Fantastic Four film.

Why? Do you have a reason?

At some point he will have a stroke doing all of the plane shit.

Tom Cruise should have bowed out a couple movies ago and created a franchise over which he has full control.

He could have turned it into another Bond-like franchise that they tried to do with Bourne. He should have setup his own replacement.

He could have positioned Powell in a role to take over or any number of other actors.

Rebecca Ferguson was the first actress who had chemistry with Cruise in a long time. Terrible decision to kill her character off, but maybe she wanted to move on with other projects. Jeremy Renner had a good role, too, but that character disappeared as well, before Renner’s accident.

R48 = idiot who has never heard on inflation

This is a thirty year old franchise.

The 2000 sequel did $70.8 million in its Memorial Day 4-day. That’s $131 million in today’s money. The new movie only made 58% of that.

The 2018 sequel did $61 million in its three-day. That’s $78 million in today’s money. It made more money in its three-day than in 2025’s four-day.

$63 million for the 3-day weekend is terrible for a $400 million movie that had massive promo Tom Cruise was everywhere promoting this movie. Both Wicked movies cost less to make than this one MI film.

I’ve never met a younger person that goes to these stupid movies

I saw a lot of people complaining about the changes in the live action LILO and Stitch movie. I expected it to bomb.

My heart breaks for the tiny man.

R65 Nope because they are at whatever garbage Marvel has regurgitated this week.

[quote] I feel a little sorry for Tammy since he talked IMAX into giving him a three week run in IMAX. I can only imagine that there will be sparsely attended IMAX screenings with a few seniors.

Yeah but each IMAX ticket is $75.

I saw Mission Impossible yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, and almost everyone in the theater was really old. I'm in my 40s, and I was one of the youngest there. It was kind of surprising, though it aligns with the exit survey demographics for the film, which showed the audience skewed much older than other franchises.

I wonder why

I wonder if this will be what finally what breaks the spell of Tom Cruise still being a big box office draw. Top Gun 2 success was fluke and probably benefited just as much from having Glen Powell on the cast as Cruise. Lilo and Stitch being such a hit is not a surprise at all. My understanding is stitch merch has always done well in the Disney parks.

Still wild to me that the Lilo and Stitch movie was ever on the straight to streaming route. Like the merch sales should have been enough to let Disney know that they had hit on their hands. I’m confident that Lilo and stitch will have a longer tail in theaters than MI8. Kids love to rewatch movies. MI8 best bet is that enough parents see ads for it durning lilo and stitch and decide to see it as a date movie.

Kids love Stitch. I knew this would be a monster hit during the Snow White roll out debacle.