Ethan Hunt can't compete with "Lilo & Stitch" in the second week either. At least Tom Cruise remains the box office crown prince.

This weekend, Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” returns to theaters in live-action/CGI form and is expected to lead the Memorial Day box office to a potential new record. But its release alongside Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” also makes it a box office rematch 23 years in the making: Stitch vs. Tom Cruise.

Lilo & Stitch is off to a groundbreaking start at the box office, and it just passed two major films within less than a week of opening. After a record-shattering Memorial Day Monday that saw Lilo & Stitch haul in over $36 million at the domestic box office,