After a tricky road to get off the ground, theLilo & Stitchtrailer has hit a major milestone that could prove beneficial for its box office run. The upcoming movie serves as a live-action remake of the beloved 2002 movie of the same name, centering on a young Native Hawaiian girl who unknowingly adopts an alien experiment on the run, though forms a life-changing bond with him. Hailing from Oscar nominee Dean Fleischer Camp and led by Maia Kealoha and Sydney Agudong, Disney shifted itsLilo & Stitchlive-action remakefrom a streaming-only to a theatrical premiere, which is coming in May 2025.
With just over two months remaining until its release, the officialLilo & Stitchtrailer unveiled the first full look at the live-action remake, and garnered a generally favorable response from fans. It didn’t stop there,asDisneyhas revealed that it’s now theirsecond-most-viewed live-action trailer of all-time with 158 million viewswithin 24 hours of its debut. This puts it just behind 2019’sThe Lion Kingteaser trailer, which garnered 224.6 million views in that same window.
What This Trailer Milestone Means For Lilo & Stitch
The Live-Action Remake Might Be On Its Way To A Major Payday
While a trailer’s viewership could be just as much about an audience’s distaste for what they’re seeing as their enjoyment of it,the early response to the live-actiontrailer has leaned far more on the positive side of things. Fans ofthe originalLilo & Stitchhave expressed their admiration for everything from Chris Sanders returning to voice the titular alien to not going the way of a photorealistic version of Stitch, as Disney has often done with their live-action remakes since 2019’sLion King.
Jon Favreau’sLion Kingremake remains the highest-grossing live-action update of a Disney movie.
Between this positive reception to the trailer and the viewership milestone,Lilo & Stitchmight actually find itself avoiding becoming something of a box office hit. The movie does still have a pretty congested roster to compete with in May, includingMission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Karate Kid: Legendsandfellow Disney releaseThunderbolts*, though without much other family-driven fare that month, it could carve out a nice haul for itself. Check out May 2025’s major theatrical release calendar below:
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Beyond just possibly becoming a hit,Lilo & Stitchcould also turn around Disney’s live-action struggles at the box office. Though it will have a difficult time replicating the $1.66 billion success ofThe Lion King, whose trailer the 2025 film sits behind on Disney’s all-time charts, this early positive groundswell for the next remake could find itself avoiding the same underwhelmingdomestic performances ofThe Little Mermaidand projections of the upcomingSnow Whiteand be a well-rounded hit for the studio.
Our Take On Lilo & Stitch’s Trailer Milestone
Fans Of The Original Are Cautiously Hopeful About The New Version
As someone who grew up loving the original film, I certainly can’t deny that I’d held some fears about theLilo & Stitchremake, particularly after the last few live-action Disney updates failed to necessarily offer any kind of meaningful new takes on their originals. That being said,I certainly was more than one of the 158 million views contributing to the trailer’s major milestone, as I am always curious to see how a filmmaker seeks to bring an acclaimed property back to life, particularly afterCamp’s own success withMarcel the Shell with Shoes On.
Lilo & Stitch Just Fixed The Biggest Problem With Disney’s Live-Action Remakes, 6 Years After The Lion King Started It
A recent trailer for Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch has finally confirmed that the movie fixes one animation element the company once butchered.
Beyond my own curiosity, though, it is pretty clear that a large part of what helpedLilo & Stitchgarner such a high number of views so quickly is the continued passionate love audiences have for the original, and desire to see whether Camp was approaching the source material the right way. Between the early reception and high viewership already, as long as the actual reviews bring the same level of positivity, I could certainly see this being one of Disney’s best live-action remakes yet.
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Lilo & Stitch is a live-action remake of the 2002 animated sci-fi adventure comedy directed by Dean Fleischer Camp.
