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Lilo & Stitch 2025

Movie · 108 min · English · May 17, 2025

Directed by Dean Fleischer CampWritten by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, Mike Van Waes

Starring Maia Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, Chris Sanders, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen

Lilo & Stitch is a 2025 American science fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Rideback. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, it serves as a live-action animated remake of Disney's 2002 traditionally animated film Lilo & Stitch. The movie features Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B. Vance, Zach Galifianakis, and Maia Kealoha in her film debut, with original Lilo & Stitch writer-director Chris Sanders returning to voice the character of Stitch.

Work on a live-action version of Lilo & Stitch started in October 2018, with writer Mike Van Waes and producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich involved. By November 2020, Jon M. Chu was being considered for directing, while Van Waes exited the project even though he remained credited. Fleischer Camp and Chris Kekaniokalani Bright were named as the new director and writer respectively in July 2022, with casting occurring between November 2022 and June 2023. Principal photography commenced in April and continued through July 2023, during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, before halting due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Production resumed in February and March 2024 after both strikes concluded. Dan Romer scored the film, and Industrial Light & Magic handled the visual effects with help from additional effects companies.

Lilo & Stitch made its premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on May 17, 2025, followed by a U.S. release on May 23 through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Critics responded favorably to the film, and it earned $1.038billion globally, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2025 and the highest-grossing live-action/animated hybrid in history—its first such film to surpass $1billion in revenue. A sequel is currently in development, with Sanders set to write and direct, scheduled for release on May 26, 2028.