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.

“Gantu was one of those things that just didn’t work so well in live action,” he told Cinema Blend.

Disney’s Lilo & Stitch is crushing Memorial Day weekend box office records while Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is running in a distant second.

Disney and the filmmakers behind the live-action redo recruited one of the original's writers and directors, Chris Sanders, to reprise his role from the traditionally animated movie as the voice of S...