\n\tAll hail Stitch! <\/p>\n
\n\tDisney\u2019s live-action \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d remake is\u00a0the year\u2019s first Hollywood release to hit $1 billion at the worldwide box office. After eight weekends in theaters, the family comedy has grossed $416.1 million in North America and $584.8 million internationally for a global tally of $1.001 billion. China\u2019s blockbuster \u201cNe Zha 2,\u201d however, remains by far the biggest film of 2025 with $1.899 billion in the bank.<\/p>\n
\n\tOriginally planned as a straight-to-streaming release, \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d is the latest example of the outsized returns that Disney can mine from theatrical with the right property at the right time. \u201cMoana 2\u201d was also developed for Disney+, as a television show, and became a billion-dollar box office smash<\/a> last Thanksgiving after the studio first routed the animated sequel to the big screen. With those achievements, Walt Disney Studios has released four billion-dollar films in the past 13 months alone, including Marvel\u2019s \u201cDeadpool & Wolverine\u201d and Pixar\u2019s \u201cInside Out 2.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe knew there was a lot of love for \u2018Lilo & Stitch\u2019 with audiences around the world, yet we never take that for granted, and we\u2019re proud of how this new film has connected with people,\u201d Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman said. \u201cI\u2019m thankful to our filmmakers, our cast and all on our studio team who have made this film such a success, and we look forward to more adventures with these characters ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d opened in late May to $183 million domestically and $341 million globally in four days, setting the biggest Memorial Day weekend debut in history. It remained No. 1 for three consecutive weekends and became one of only two films this year (the Warner Bros. video game adaptation \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d is the other) to surpass $400 million at this domestic box office. At one point, \u201cMinecraft\u201d was poised to be the year\u2019s first billion-dollar blockbuster but the tentpole ended up falling just short of that milestone with $955 million worldwide. In the case of \u201cLilo & Stitch,\u201d top international territories include Mexico ($67 million), the United Kingdom ($49 million) and France ($42.5 million).<\/p>\n \n\tThough 23 years have passed since the 2002\u2019s animated \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d arrived in theaters, the character has never waned in popularity on the shelves of toy stores. In 2024, Disney sold $2.6 billion in consumer products featuring the \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d duo. Now that a whole new generation has been introduced to the mischievous agent of chaos, merchandise sales are likely to keep soaring through the holiday season.<\/p>\n \n\tThen there\u2019s Disney+ viewership, which has grown significantly every year on the streaming service, according to studio insiders. The franchise, which includes several direct-to-video movies and television shows, has driven more than 680 million hours of streams, with the original film accounting for more than 280 hours.<\/p>\n \n\tDirected by Dean Fleischer Camp and produced by Rideback, \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d follows an adorable blue extraterrestrial creature who crash-lands in Hawaii and gets adopted by a young girl and her older sister. Disney already announced a live-action sequel<\/a> is in the works, so get ready for more Stitch mayhem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All hail Stitch! Disney\u2019s live-action \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d remake is\u00a0the year\u2019s first Hollywood release to hit $1 billion…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,7659,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-70632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-lilo-stitch","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114870127490908050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}