Lilo & Stitch Is $46 Million Away From Pushing Disney Past A Massive Box Office Milestone

Because of Lilo & Stitch’s incredible success, Disney will achieve a major box office milestone very soon. Disney didn’t get off to a good start in 2025 after the release of Snow White. The Rachel Zegler-led film, which is based on the iconic 1937 animated movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is one of the lowest-grossing live-action Disney remakes of all time. Only making $205 million at the worldwide box office (via Box Office Mojo), Snow White likely lost Disney well over $100 million. Thankfully, the company made this money back with Lilo & Stitch.

Ever since its release on May 23, 2025, Lilo & Stitch has been dominating the box office. As of this writing, the film has made $781 million globally (via Box Office Mojo). Despite making some controversial changes to the original animated film, reviews for Lilo & Stitch have been very good. Disney’s newest live-action remake is about to get some major competition with the release of How to Train Your Dragon. However, despite Lilo & Stitch’s upcoming competition, Disney will undoubtedly achieve a significant box office milestone soon.

Disney’s Live-Action Remakes Are Approaching A $12 Billion Box Office Total

Overall, Disney’s Live-Action Remakes Have Been Successful

Throughout its history, Disney has produced a lot of iconic animated movies. To this day, these animated films are still beloved by fans. Therefore, over the last decade, Disney has started making a lot of live-action remakes of its most popular movies. Some fans have argued that many animated movies don’t need live-action retellings, but this endeavor has clearly been very profitable for Disney.

Many of Disney’s live-action remakes have been very profitable for the company, such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, which all made over $1 billion at the box office. Because of these major successes, Disney’s live-action remakes are approaching a total haul of $12 billion at the box office. Just like the aforementioned movies, Lilo & Stitch earning $1 billion at the box office seems very likely, so it will definitely be the film to push Disney past this significant milestone.

Lilo & Stitch Will Push Disney Past The $12 Billion Milestone Soon

Lilo & Stitch Will Be One Of The Highest-Grossing Movies Of 2025

While it seems like Lilo & Stitch will make $1 billion at the box office, it actually only needs to make $46 million more for Disney to achieve this milestone. Lilo & Stitch has won the weekend box office for three weekends in a row, which is something that only two other live-action Disney remakes have done. Therefore, it’s clear that the film is not losing much momentum, which means Disney should reach this box office milestone either this weekend or early next week.

It’s worth noting that How to Train Your Dragon will steal some audience members from Lilo & Stitch. Based on projections for How to Train Your Dragon’s opening weekend, it’s a guarantee that Lilo & Stitch won’t win the box office for a fourth weekend in a row. However, this shouldn’t take away from the success that the Disney film has already experienced. Lilo & Stitch is already one of the most successful live-action Disney remakes ever, and its theatrical run is not close to being over yet.

Disney’s Live-Action Remakes Are The Second Biggest “Franchise” At The Box Office

Several Disney Remakes Have Dominated The Box Office

Disney achieving this milestone is obviously very impressive, but the company’s live-action remakes are actually already the second most profitable “franchise” at the box office. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the highest-grossing franchise ever, making just shy of $32 billion at the box office. Unlike the movies in the MCU, Disney’s live-action remakes are not all connected. However, I think it’s fair to refer to them as a franchise since they are all part of the same initiative by Disney.

As seen in the above table, Spider-Man and Star Wars are currently the only two franchises that pose a threat to Disney’s live-action remakes for the second place spot. Even though some of the remakes the company has put out in recent years have had underwhelming performances at the box office, such as the aforementioned Snow White, Disney still has many upcoming remakes that could be very successful. Therefore, after Lilo & Stitch, this “franchise” will continue to earn more at the box office in the coming years.