Lilo & Stitchis drawing close to breaking its biggest box office record yet. The 2025 movie, which was directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, is a live-action remake of the 2002 animated hit of the same name. Although Chris Sanders returns as the voice of Stitch (who is now brought to life via photorealistic CGI), the rest of the cast is made up of newcomers to the franchise, including Maia Kealoha as Lilo Pelekai, Sydney Elizebeth Agudong as Nani Pelekai, Billy Magnussen as Pleakley, Zach Galifianakis as Jumba, Kaipo Dudoit as David Kawena, and Courtney B. Vance as Cobra Bubbles.
TheLilo & Stitchreleasehas already broken numerous box office records. This includes earningthe highest-grossing opening weekend for a Memorial Day weekend release, with its $146 million gross seeing it rocket past the previous record-holder, which was 2022’sTop Gun: Maverickwith $126.7 million. Additionally, it has raced past multiple milestones, most recently topping $800 million worldwide, which is a total that is nearly triple the entire worldwide gross of the original 2002 movie, which earned just $274.7 million worldwide by the end of its theatrical run.
Lilo & Stitch’s Cumulative Domestic Gross Is Set To Reach $365.4 Million During Its Fourth Weekend
It Passed A Major Milestone Shortly Before The Weekend Began
According toDeadline, as of Saturday morning, theLilo & Stitchbox officeis projected to take in an additional $14.6 million over the three days of its fourth weekend in domestic theaters.This will bring its cumulative domestic total to $365.4 millionafter having passed the $350 million milestone shortly before the weekend began. It was only the second 2025 movie to pass that milestone, and it is only increasing the gap between itself and the third highest-grossing domestic movie of the year so far, which is the Ryan Coogler horror movieSinners($274 million).
Lilo & Stitch Is Only $58 Million Away From Outgrossing A Minecraft Movie In North America
This Would Make It The No. 1 Domestic Movie Of The Year
By hitting this cumulative domestic gross,2025’sLilo & Stitchis drawing ever closer to surpassing the domestic gross of the 2025 hitA Minecraft Movie. That title, which is adapted from the video game of the same name and boasts a star-studded cast that includes Jason Momoa and Jack Black, is a smash hit that has earned $423.7 million at the domestic box office, making it the highest-grossing 2025 movie so far in North America. This means thatthe Disney remake only needs to earn just over $58 million in order to become the biggest domestic movie of 2025.
A Minecraft Moviewas directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) and also stars Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge.
Lilo & Stitchis also on a trajectory that will see it most likely passA Minecraft Movieto become the highest-grossing Hollywood movie of the year worldwide. The video game movie stopped just shy of $1 billion with a worldwide gross of $951.5 million, whereasLilo & Stitchis on track to earn somewhere between $1.1 and $1.2 billion, though it will almost certainly fall short of the record-breaking Chinese smash hitNe Zha 2($1.899 billion), which is currently the No. 1 movie of the year worldwide.
How Long Will Lilo & Stitch Stay No. 1?
Major Competitors Are Debuting Soon
While it seems very likely that it will only be a matter of time beforeLilo & Stitchbecomes the highest-grossing domestic movie of the year,it remains to be seen how long it can maintain that title. As a Memorial Day weekend release, theDisney live-action remakecame at the beginning of the summer 2025 season, which sees a number of major tentpoles coming to theaters in the near future.
[Three major blockbuster competitors] open before the end of July.
These titles include the standalone sequelJurassic World Rebirth(which has a projected 5-day opening weekend between $115 and $135 million), the Marvel Cinematic Universe outingThe Fantastic Four: First Steps(which has a projected 3-day debut of $125-$155 million), and the DC Universe tentpoleSuperman(which has a projected 3-day debut of $140-$185 million), all of which open before the end of July. The latter two titles especially seem poised to potentially beat the debut ofLilo & Stitch, meaning thatit may only spend a month or so at the topbefore it is also toppled.
