THUNDERBOLTS* Nears $370 Million Worldwide; LILO & STITCH, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8 Reach Impressive Benchmarks

THUNDERBOLTS* Nears $370 Million Worldwide; LILO & STITCH, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8 Reach Impressive Benchmarks

As Thunderbolts* continues trying to reach $400 million, Lilo & Stitch is rocketing towards $1 billion as Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning's attempt to reach profitability continues in earnest.

By JoshWilding - Jun 02, 2025 06:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Thunderbolts
Source: Deadline

Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning both broke box office records over Memorial Day weekend, though Experiment 626 was the clear winner over Ethan Hunt.

Both movies performed well during their respective second weekends in theaters; Lilo & Stitch earned an estimated $63 million in North America, and with $113.1 million from overseas, its worldwide box office total has risen to $610.8 million. $1+ billion is inevitable, as is a sequel. 

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, meanwhile, earned an additional $27 million stateside, but as with most Tom Cruise movies, it's doing better internationally; so far, Hunt's final adventure has grossed $353.8 million worldwide, but there's a long way to go until the movie reaches profitability. Why? It's estimated to have cost $400 million to shoot.

That was a result of delays caused by 2023's Hollywood strikes. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One similarly underperformed and was another pricey effort, that time due to COVID. If the IMF agent does ever return, it will be with a much smaller budget. 

Both that and Lilo & Stitch faced competition from Karate Kid: Legends, which has earned $47 million globally since opening last Friday.

A Minecraft Movie will likely fall short of $1 billion, but it has made $947.1 million. Sinners, meanwhile, has reached $350.1 million, an impressive feat for an original movie from Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

When it comes to Marvel Studios' latest movie, Thunderbolts*, its run is beginning to wind down, and $400 million appears unlikely. As of this weekend, *The New Avengers has earned $369.6 million worldwide. This one will lose money, but it's also the MCU's best-reviewed title in quite some time. 

"Thunderbolts* redefines superhero storytelling to deliver a moving and powerful story that does for the 'Multiverse Saga' what The Avengers did for the 'Infinity Saga' in 2012," we said in our review. "These heroes have earned their place on a Wheaties box."

Can The Fantastic Four: First Steps do better in a month where it will face stiff competition from Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman? That remains to be seen. 

In Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes - Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker. Will this dysfunctional group tear themselves apart, or find redemption and unite as something much more before it’s too late?

Lilo & Stitch is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning; our lives are the sum of our choices.

Which of these movies did you watch in theaters this past weekend?

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KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 6/2/2025, 6:29 AM
OT: Who wrote this new episode [S8 ep 2] of Rick & Morty??? 🤨

Gawddammit!!!!
dragon316
dragon316 - 6/2/2025, 6:33 AM
@KennKathleen - don’t say in credits ? I don’t series not for me
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 6/2/2025, 8:10 AM
@KennKathleen - I quit watching around the beginning of season 2. What happened?
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 6/2/2025, 8:18 AM
@JustAWaffle - It stole my chuckles... it STOLE MY CHUCKLES!!!!
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 6/2/2025, 8:19 AM
@dragon316 - Thank you for participating Sir.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/2/2025, 10:05 AM
Blunderdolts* and Trash Loved By Sinners are so cute.

Just chugging along towards half a billion dollars, which would have been impressive thirty years ago.

"I think I can! I think I can!"

🔥🔥💣🔥🔥🚂

🔥🔥💣🔥🔥🚂
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 6/2/2025, 6:36 AM
I'm still wanting to go out and see MI:8 but i doubt it's going to fare better than the last one at the box office. One thing is for sure though, Tom Cruise led movies do have legs (pun intended ;) )

Thunderbolts can still likely hit 400 though, but i wonder if they maybe should have waited another week or 2 before the push of the *New Avenger title, or if the current total was already positively affected by that post marketing push.

I'll be quite interested to know how F4 and Superman end up doing as both sides needs the win.

If Superman gets around £500 mill, i'd consider that a win, but i think that's also around how much MoS did back in 2013, and they pivoted from a sequel to an expansion pretty quickly because of that tepid response.

Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 6/2/2025, 9:10 AM
@UnderBelly - I thought final reckoning sucked. I’m shocked by how high the audience scores are for it. I’d recommend waiting to watch at home personally.
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 6/2/2025, 9:26 AM
@Shivermetimbers - I get that the story may be lacking, but for the sake of cinematography and shooting on location, i would much prefer to take that in on the big screen than another movie largely shot on green screen with way to much reliance on VFX.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/2/2025, 10:23 AM
Craptain UnAmerican: New World Order
🔥💣🔥

No White
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Blunderdolts*
🔥💣🔥

Elio
🔥💣🔥

Fantastic Bore: Last Steps
🔥💣🔥
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 6/2/2025, 10:56 AM
@UnderBelly - Yeah, I get that. It has a couple of really cool scenes. I realize I am apparently in the minority with my opinion too.
SirReginald
SirReginald - 6/2/2025, 6:37 AM
Should have race-swapped Lilo and Stitch
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 6/2/2025, 6:56 AM
@SirReginald - should have species swapped
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/2/2025, 9:58 AM
@SirReginald -

Representation matters.

Inuits, Laotians, Madagascarians, El Salvadorians, and Lakota should be able to see themselves in remakes of 21st century movies too.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 6/2/2025, 6:43 AM
But people here say Disney is dead.
billnye69
billnye69 - 6/2/2025, 7:54 AM
@SonOfAGif - Bots and people who don't live in reality say things like that. That's how propganda works, repeating the same lies until you yourself believe it.
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 6/2/2025, 8:12 AM
@SonOfAGif - I never understood that whole "Disney is dead" thing. They are an umbrella corporation with a lot of branches underneath them. Their films might drop here and there, but all it takes is a sizable gain from another branch to keep the umbrella upright.
SATW42
SATW42 - 6/2/2025, 9:12 AM
@JustAWaffle - "I never understood that whole "Disney is dead" thing."

So, there's a few factors at play:

1. is Disney is the big dog so people like to hope the guy on top falls.

2. Culture war bullshit that reached it's apex with Ron DeSantis nonsense down in Florida

3. People who like to come here just to start shit
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/2/2025, 6:49 AM
Damn man , Lilo & Stitch doing so much business in this day & age shouldn’t be surprising but it is…

Regardless of the quality of the film , it just further shows that nostalgia and kids dragging their parents to the theaters will pretty much always work lol.

Anyway sadly I think Final Reckoning will underperform as Dead Reckoning did…

I had more issues with the film then I’ve had with a MI movie in awhile but I still found it to a good & satisfying (possible) end to this iteration of the franchise!!.
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 6/2/2025, 6:50 AM
This is what you get when people are A: not interested in the brand and B: have no marquee dtaws
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/2/2025, 10:01 AM
@AllsNotGood -

C: Really ogre all the trash wokeness.

D: Sick of character assassinations.

E: Sick of watered down, inferior, non canon fan film reiamginings made by Marxist liberal activist hackfrauds.
Timerider
Timerider - 6/2/2025, 10:24 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - F: Most people are struggling paying bills, so a second viewing is out of the question. If prices drop, you might make more at the box office, until then, you can forget it.
Rpendo
Rpendo - 6/2/2025, 10:24 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - “maRxISt LIbErAL AcTIVist HAcKfRAudS”

You need some new material, squishy-boy. Same shit over and over again… dribbling out your tiny-dick nonsense all over the place because you’re frustrated that no girl will ever touch your whiny little ass…

Go get a job and make some money and buy yourself a personality that doesn’t suck, sweetie. The white-boy-victim thing is played out.

Y the more you post here, the more impotent you come off as. Like you’re trying to compensate for something, almost…
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 6/2/2025, 10:37 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea -

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TowelSeatbelt
TowelSeatbelt - 6/2/2025, 11:50 AM
@Rpendo - is that all you use to define your self worth, organ size and whether girls like you? That's an incredibly sad existence
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 6/2/2025, 12:22 PM
@AllsNotGood -
you have success? bc lilo and stich are the same trash, but they are successful
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 6/2/2025, 12:24 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea -
not our fault no one likes your fascist nazi ethno nationalism. bc you guys want to destroy art
Rpendo
Rpendo - 6/2/2025, 1:15 PM
@TowelSeatbelt - nah, man.

I just say it because it gets under that d-bag’s skin.

I know that these always-online losers who whine all day about superheroes or kids’ cartoons or whatever are really just pissed off because their lives suck, so they spread their misery around in unrelated spaces to get attention. They act all tough and hard online because they’re anonymous, so there are no real consequences to saying their nonsense. Most of them are very likely just weak little bitch-boys who don’t have the wherewithal to actually do something about what’s really bothering them, so they inflict themselves on the rest of us.

So I mock them as harshly as possible and try to find their pressure points. These pressure points are usually pretty obvious (lack of success with potential romantic partners, crappy body image, lack of financial success, “tiny-dick energy,” and what have you.)

Watching this man child get all frantic every time I call him a virgin, or inbred, or whatever, is very satisfying, after his endless, daily attempts to get someone, ANYONE, to pay attention to him.
Blergh
Blergh - 6/2/2025, 6:52 AM
Recently found out that Thunderbolts was given similar tax incentives to Ant-Man 3. So if word is to be believed the movie essentially funded itself. So if that’s true then at least it’s not losing any money. Still a massive letdown
Blergh
Blergh - 6/2/2025, 6:56 AM
Quebec and South Australia gave the film rebates. Ant-Man 3 tool 58M out of the UK alone
Rpendo
Rpendo - 6/2/2025, 7:01 AM
LILO and Stitch, a movie featuring two non-white, female leads, is going to crush a billion dollars, and will likely be the biggest movie of the Summer season.

A year after Inside Out 2, a movie almost completely female -led, set in San Francisco area, made 1.7 billion dollars.

Less than year after Moana, a movie featuring a non-white, female “girlboss” lead, crushed a billion dollars.

Less than a year after Wicked, a movie with two female “girlboss” leads, one of whom is non-white, was a smash hit in theaters and VOD.

Just wanted to get that out there before certain little boys in this community woke up and saw this article.

Thunderbolts was really good. It will lose a bit in theaters, but will likely do ever so slightly better than break even when all is said and done. Disappointing, but not disastrous.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 6/2/2025, 8:30 AM
@Rpendo - exactly! Their "go woke" Yada Yada doesn't seem to work in this case hmmm. It's almost as if they're full of crap
Matador
Matador - 6/2/2025, 8:53 AM
@Rpendo - You know the families that took their kids to watch the little blue asshole was the star and what drove people in to the seats not so much two non-white, female leads.

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Everyone likes the little guy.

Now how about make the movie again without Stitch and just about two non-white, female leads and see ho much it makes?
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 6/2/2025, 8:53 AM
@Rpendo - too selective just to make a weak point

You mention succesful female led films. But in the grander scheme of things, there are also many films with the same themes that flopped.

One example is Furiosa. And I LOVED that movie that im sad it didnt resonate with the audience.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 6/2/2025, 9:15 AM
@Rpendo - Also Barbie.
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Rpendo
Rpendo - 6/2/2025, 10:00 AM
@vectorsigma - Furiosa was awesome.
Rpendo
Rpendo - 6/2/2025, 10:07 AM
@Matador - Moana, Wicked, Inside Out 2 were the other examples that you ignored , but okay.

Point is, the squishy morons who proclaim that movies fail because they’re “woke,” are objectively incorrect, given the massive success movies I listed here. Of course Stitch was the draw. Duh. But the movie is not being hampered in any way by the gender or ethnicity of the leads, as certain dipshits here claim about any movie with women or non-whites as leads.
Matador
Matador - 6/2/2025, 11:51 AM
@Rpendo - Moana was a fun movie big draw was The Rock and this movie was made prior to wokeness being a thing.
Wicked didn't care for it it's been done via Disney Oz The Great and Powerful so okay at best then you have The Wiz.
Inside Out 2 lot of people might have seen it those that didn't were afraid of it being woke s it landed during woke height. You can't blame some parents of of the woke garbage leads straight into indoctrinationing kids way of thinking. And I didn't watch it didn't care for the first one either.
Rpendo
Rpendo - 6/2/2025, 1:38 PM
@Matador - The draw of Moana 2 was that the first one was great, and a huge hit on streaming, so people went to see the sequel. The Rock was not “the draw.”

Doesn’t matter if you didn’t care for Wicked, it was a smash hit, and we are talking about these films’ success, not your personal opinions of them.

1.7 billion for Inside Out 2 strongly implies multiple viewing. And honestly, the only thing “woke” about it was that it had a largely female cast, but that’s because it took place at a sleep away hockey camp. Not really “woke” by any stretch, though by the metrics of a bunch of losers scared of women, yeah, sure, “woke,” whatever.
Matador
Matador - 6/2/2025, 2:45 PM
@Rpendo - Well I thought you wanted my opinion on them since you asked me about them my mistake. And also I didn't watch Moana 2 didn't look that interesting.
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