It's a Memorial Day weekend for the box office record books. Movie theaters across the country were jamming as "Lilo & Stitch" and Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" fueled the largest Memorial Day holiday in history - and established several other benchmarks in the process.

Last year, theater owners and industry professionals wrung their hands as Memorial Day box office performance tanked. This year could not be more different.

The two films are fueling the biggest Memorial Day weekend in history, while 'Lilo & Stitch' will supplant Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' as the holiday's top opener of all time (he's also the mainstay star of the 'M:I' series).