Bloodlines Loses Box Office Top Spot To Disney's New Film

 

Final Destination: Bloodlines and Thunderbolts have taken the backseat for new entries to take the weekend box office top spots. Not only have the debuting films taken the front rows, they also performed so well that they made the worldwide top 10 for the year. 

Lilo & Stitch and Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning are the new blockbusters with huge grosses on their opening weekend. However, Walt Disney's film, Lilo & Stitch, took the top spot with a domestic gross of $145.5 million. Adding $158.7 million from foreign territories, its worldwide gross total at $341.7 million,

Final Reckoning also did impressively with a weekend domestic gross of $63 million, occupying the second position behind Lilo & Stitch. On Monday alone, Final Reckoning added $14 million to the domestic cume, and from the international market, it hauled in $127 million over the weekend from 64 territories. 

For Lilo & Stitch, it is currently the fifth most successful film this year after Thunderbirds. With the film's success, the Walt Disney studio became the first to cross the $2 billion threshold, despite the slow start recorded for most movies released earlier this year. 

Final Reckoning is understood to be the biggest debut for the Mission Impossible franchise. The newly released film earned $204 million globally, making it the eighth biggest release this year behind Snow White (7th) and Sinners (6th). This installment is the last of the franchise, which has been running since 1996. 

Bloodlines did not miss out altogether. Rather, it was third with a domestic gross of $19.4 million in its second weekend. That brought its domestic cume to $89.4 million with a global gross of $187.1 million. Also, Thunderbolts continued in Walt Disney's giant stride with $9.1 million, making it fourth in its fourth weekend, ahead of Sinners with $8.6 million in gross in its sixth weekend.