Los Angeles, California - Movie theaters across North America are enjoying an exceptional Memorial Day weekend, with two new much-anticipated blockbusters bringing in an estimated box office totaling well over $250 million, analysts said Sunday.

Disney's family-friendly Lilo & Stitch earned an estimated $183 million, a record for the four-day Memorial Day weekend, according to Variety.

The film has already taken in an additional $158 million internationally, industry tracker Exhibitor Relations reported.

"This is a sensational opening," placing the film among the top three Disney live-action remakes, said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.

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Maia Kealoha (as Lilo), Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B. Vance, and Zach Galifianakis star, while Chris Sanders again provides the voice of the chaos-creating blue alien Stitch.

Paramount's new spy thriller Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – the latest, and ostensibly last, in the hugely successful Tom Cruise series – opened to an estimated $77 million in ticket sales in the US and Canada.

Gross called that an "excellent" opening, probably the best ever in the series. Ticket sales, however, need to make up for a huge production budget estimated at $400 million.

In third, dropping two spots from its opening last weekend, was Warner Bros. and New Line's horror film Final Destination: Bloodlines, at $24.5 million.

Kaitlyn Santa Juana stars as a young woman who has to deal with the grisly aftereffects of her grandmother having long ago cheated Death.

Fourth place went to Disney and Marvel's superhero film Thunderbolts*, at $11.6 million. Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan lead a motley bunch of misfits and antiheroes.

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The film has taken in more than $350 million worldwide.

And in fifth was Ryan Coogler's vampire thriller Sinners, raking in $11.2 million. The film has now earned $259 million domestically to become one of the highest-grossing R-rated films ever, according to Variety.