{"id":38994,"date":"2025-05-27T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/?p=38994"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:36:50","slug":"regal-welcomes-3-million-guests-on-record-breaking-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/regal-welcomes-3-million-guests-on-record-breaking-memorial-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Regal Welcomes 3 Million Guests on Record-Breaking Memorial Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Regal enjoyed a high-traffic Memorial Day weekend, as new releases <em>Lilo &amp; Stitch and Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning, <\/em>together with holdovers like <em>Final Destination Bloodlines<\/em>, <em>Sinners<\/em>,\u00a0and <em>Thunderbolts*<\/em>, drew 3 million guests to Regal locations nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We were thrilled to welcome millions of guests this holiday weekend, proving once again that there&#8217;s a healthy appetite for consumers to come to the movies when offered a variety of choices. These are can&#8217;t miss events that you have to watch in a big movie house,&#8221; said&nbsp;Eduardo Acuna, CEO at Regal Cineworld.&nbsp;&#8220;We&#8217;re confident this momentum is going to continue&nbsp;into the summer, given the highly anticipated titles releasing in the upcoming weeks, including <em>Jurassic World, F1, Superman, <\/em><em>How to Train Your Dragon<\/em>, <em>Ballerina<\/em>, <em>28 Years Later<\/em>, and <em>The Fantastic Four<\/em>.&nbsp;Our heartfelt congratulations to our partners at Disney and Paramount on this record-breaking weekend!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the Memorial Day holiday period, Regal achieved numerous milestones, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Regal&#8217;s best recorded Memorial Day weekend performance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>103 million ounces of popcorn served<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em> now ranks as the highest grossing Memorial Day weekend movie for Regal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em> merchandise and collectibles are nearly sold out at Regal locations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some of Regal&#8217;s top performing theatres this weekend included Irvine Spectrum and Kendall Village, both in the top ten overall nationwide for all theatres<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regal&#8217;s locations in Kendall Village and Fresno Riverpark, ranked in the top ten for <em>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em>, and Irvine Spectrum and Hacienda Crossings were in the top ten for <em>Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Regal&#8217;s exclusive merchandise for\u00a0<em>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em>\u00a0includes a collectible container that features a life-sized, flocked Stitch, and for <em>Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning <\/em>an &#8220;Entity&#8221; popcorn bucket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regal enjoyed a high-traffic Memorial Day weekend, as new releases Lilo &amp; Stitch and Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning, together with holdovers like Final Destination Bloodlines, Sinners,\u00a0and Thunderbolts*, drew 3 million guests to Regal locations nationwide. &#8220;We were thrilled to welcome millions of guests this holiday weekend, proving once again that there&#8217;s a healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":38880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-05-27T17:36:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"a9cbed74-a867-48d1-9b31-31c5320ebdd0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-05-27T17:36:46Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqcvtdKhnSNGbMTHFMg690A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/dfac7ee9-acf9-449e-b214-8115882b64d6"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3472,407],"class_list":["post-38994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition-news","tag-memorial-day","tag-regal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}