Lilo & Stitch (2025)

Hold on to your coconuts.

The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.

Directed by: Dean Fleischer Camp

Written by: Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, Mike Van Waes

Music by: Dan Romer

Starring: Maia Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, Chris Sanders, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Courtney B. Vance, Amy Hill, Tia Carrere, Kaipo Dudoit, Hannah Waddingham

Genre: Family, Science Fiction, Comedy

Released: 2025-05-17

Runtime: 108 minutes

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Lilo & Stitch (2025): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Later that month, Kahiau Machado was cast as David Kawena, while Courtney B. Vance was cast as Cobra Bubbles, who fans initially believed was cut from the film's cast of characters.
• In April 2023, Billy Magnussen was cast as the voice of Agent Pleakley, and Sydney Agudong was cast as Nani Pelekai.
• It made $15.5 million in its fourth weekend, finally being dethroned by newcomer How to Train Your Dragon, another live-action animated remake of a film originally written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (the latter also wrote and directed the How to Train Your Dragon remake).
• Principal photography was originally slated to start on Oahu on March 13, 2023, and finish on June 16.
• On June 12, 2025, almost three weeks after the film's release, David Hekili Kenui Bell, who played the "Big Hawaiian Dude", died at age 46.
• The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and grossed $1.038 billion worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2025 and the highest-grossing live-action/animated hybrid in history, being the first of its kind to gross over $1 billion.
• Kahiau Machado was originally cast in the role, but he was recast shortly thereafter due to his prior usage of a racial slur.
• The film would go on to make $146 million over the traditional three-day weekend and $182.6 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend, setting a record.
• Lilo & Stitch ended its box office run as the third highest-grossing film of 2025 in the U.S. and Canada behind Zootopia 2 and A Minecraft Movie.
• On July 17, 2025, Lilo & Stitch crossed the $1 billion threshold, becoming the first Hollywood film of 2025 and second overall film released that year (after the Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2) to do so.
• Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, it is a live-action animated remake of Disney's 2002 traditionally animated film Lilo & Stitch.
• Development on a live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch began in October 2018, with writer Mike Van Waes and producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich attached.
• Fleischer Camp and Chris Kekaniokalani Bright were announced as the film's new director and writer respectively in July 2022, with casting taking place between November 2022 and June 2023.
• The film held its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, the same venue that hosted the premiere of the original film, on May 17, 2025.
• Maia Kealoha as Lilo Pelekai, an orphaned six-year-old Native Hawaiian girl "who loves hula, surfing, and wildlife, with a special affinity for all things 'gross'."

Source: Wikipedia

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