Lilo & Stitchcontinues to climb the box office chart. The 2025 movie, which was directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, is a live-action remake of Disney’s 2002 animated movie of the same name and follows orphaned Hawaiian girl Lilo (Maia Kealoha) bonding with a chaotic, exiled, alien genetic experiment named Stitch (Chris Sanders) while her sister Nani (Sydney Elizebeth Agudong) attempts to prove that she is a viable guardian. TheLilo & Stitchreleasehas been making a splash from the very beginning, as its $146 million domestic debut marked the best Memorial Day opening weekend in box office history.
PerVariety, as of Sunday morning,Lilo & Stitchis projected to close out its third weekend in theaters with a cumulative domestic total of $335.8 million and a global gross of $772 million. This makes it justthe third movie of 2025 to pass the $750 million milestone worldwide, behindA Minecraft Movie($949.7 million) andNe Zha 2($1.899 billion). This global total is nearly triple what the original animated movie earned in 2002, as it had only grossed $274.7 million by the end of its theatrical run.
What This Means For Lilo & Stitch
Will It Make $1 Billion?
By grossing $776 million,Lilo & Stitchhas continued to climb the chart of the highest-performingDisney live-action remakesof all time, hitting No. 6 by surpassing the entire worldwide box office runs of both 2024’sMufasa: The Lion King($722.6 million) and 2014’sMaleficent($758.5 million). It is also on track to continue climbing. Below, seea breakdown of how the five movies above it on the chart performed at the domestic box office during their third weekends, compared to their overall worldwide gross:
$431.1 million
$1.657 billion
Beauty and the Beast(2017)
$393.3 million
$1.263 billion
$232.6 million
$1.051 billion
$265.4 million
$1.025 billion
$253.4 million
$966.5 million
$335.8 million
TBD
While2025’sLilo & Stitchhas consistently trailed behind two billion-dollar Disney remakes, namely 2017’sBeauty and the Beastand 2019’sThe Lion King,it remains on track to surge up to No. 3 on the chartwith a total that could very well land somewhere between $1.1 billion and $1.2 billion. That would also most likely make it Hollywood’s first billion-dollar title of 2025, asA Minecraft Moviehas slowed down enough that it no longer seems likely to hit that coveted milestone.
Our Take On The Lilo & Stitch Box Office
Will Moana Follow Its Lead?
Should theLilo & Stitchbox officehit $1 billion worldwide, that would make it the first remake of a 21st century Disney animated title to pass that milestone.This could set a precedent that spells good news for the upcoming live-action remake of 2016’sMoana, which comes just 10 years after the original hit and thus has somewhat questionable prospects because the movie has had less time to build up nostalgia for an out-and-out remake and is still part of a viable, ongoing animated franchise, given the billion-dollar performance of 2024’sMoana 2.
