Disney’s live-action “Lilo & Stitch” and Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office in May, driving the market to a robust £109.1 million ($147.

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,