Lilo & Sтιтch Box Office Hits Two Huge Milestones In Week 2, Landing On Major Chart In The Process

Lilo & Sтιтch is continuing to shine during its second weekend at the box office. The new movie, which was directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, is a live-action remake of Disney’s 2002 animated feature of the same name and follows orphaned Hawaiian girl Lilo Pelekai (Maia Kealoha) bonding with escaped alien genetic experiment Sтιтch (Chris Sanders). The Lilo & Sтιтch release kicked off with a record-breaking $146 million opening weekend that saw it earn the highest-grossing debut ever for a Memorial Day weekend release.

Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, Lilo & Sтιтch is projected to close out its sophomore weekend by hitting a cumulative total of $280 million at the domestic box office and $610 million worldwide. This makes it only the second movie to surpᴀss the $275 million domestic milestone in 2025, behind A Minecraft Movie ($422.4 million). It squeaked past Ryan Coogler’s horror hit Sinners ($267 million) to do so. It has also become only the third film of the year to cross the $600 million milestone worldwide, behind A Minecraft Movie ($944.3 million) and Ne Zha 2 ($1.899 billion).

This total also sees it surpᴀssing the worldwide grosses of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ($491.7 million), 2015’s Cinderella ($543.5 million), and 2023’s The Little Mermaid ($569.6 million) to land at No. 8 on the Top 10 chart of the highest-grossing live-action Disney remakes of all time.

What This Means For Lilo & Sтιтch

The Top 5 Is In Its Sights

This worldwide gross marks the movie as an enormous success just 10 days into its run, as the reported budget of Lilo & Sтιтch is only $100 million, placing its estimated break-even point somewhere around $250 million. However, it is showing no signs of slowing down. Given the fact that it has already grossed more than half a billion dollars, it could potentially become the second billion-dollar тιтle of the year before long, which would see it climb even higher up the chart of the highest-grossing Disney live-action remakes. See the full Top 10 below:

тιтle

Worldwide Box Office

The Lion King (2019)

$1.657 billion

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

$1.263 billion

Aladdin (2019)

$1.050 billion

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

$1.025 billion

The Jungle Book (2016)

$966.5 million

Maleficent (2014)

$758.5 million

Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)

$722.6 million

Lilo & Sтιтch (2025)

$610 million

The Little Mermaid (2023)

$569.6 million

Cinderella (2015)

$543.5 million

Even if it only barely makes more than $1 billion, that would be enough for the movie to land among the Top 5 highest-grossing Disney live-action remakes of all time. However, it could easily exceed that milestone. While its week 2 drop was significantly more than that of Top Gun: Maverick (which was the previous record-holder for the biggest Memorial Day weekend debut), it could still be on track to gross nearly $1.2 billion by the end of its run, which would see it outgross every previous remake except The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast.

Our Take On The Lilo & Sтιтch Box Office

Disney Live-Action Remakes Are Recovering

Sтιтch and Lilo staring at each other in the live-action Lilo & Sтιтch

Image by Simone Ashmoore

Although 2025 kicked off with one of Disney’s lowest-grossing live-action remakes, Snow White (which grossed just $205.4 million against a reported $270 million budget and made it seem like the format was experiencing diminishing returns after the financial disappointment of The Little Mermaid), Lilo & Sтιтch proves that there is still money to be made with the right Disney properties. The format’s success will most likely continue, as the next remake that is lined-up is 2026’s live-action Moana, which is similar to Sтιтch in that it remakes a more contemporary animated тιтle.

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Source: Variety

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