Record weekend at the box office

The summer box office is off to a soaring start as “Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning” and the live-action “Lilo&Stitch” powered what is on course to be the biggest Memorial Day weekend in history.

“Lilo&Stitch,” a remake of the 2002 animated film surfed to a domestic box-office-leading $145.5 million opening weekend, while “Final Reckoning,” extracted $63 million, according to the Associated Press.

Those films and others are expected to push the four-day holiday weekend total to around $320 million, an all-time Memorial Day record.

– Tribune News Services