Overview

• Live-action “Lilo & Stitch” debuted to $183 million domestically and $341 million worldwide over Memorial Day weekend, surpassing the franchise’s 2002 U.S. total of $145.8 million.
• The film, paired with Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” propelled a $326.7 million domestic weekend box office, the highest Memorial Day haul since 2013.
• It achieved the third-largest debut ever for a Disney live-action remake—trailing only “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King”—highlighting renewed demand for big-screen releases.
• Millennials and Gen Z who grew up with the original drove ticket sales, accounting for 60 percent of the opening weekend audience and illustrating the power of nostalgia.
• Strong audience turnout and positive PostTrak and Rotten Tomatoes scores lifted theater-chain revenues and may prompt Disney to reconsider its streaming-versus-theatrical strategy.