Now in the home stretch of its phenomenal theatrical run, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch is within touching distance of the coveted $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. It would hope to avoid the fate that A Minecraft Movie was met with only a few weeks ago, when it concluded its global run with around $950 million in the bank. With direct competition in the form of Universal’s How to Train Your Dragon remake and Disney’s own Elio, Lilo & Stitch doesn’t have much time left. That being said, the movie passed the $900 million mark this weekend, as it makes a mad dash towards the $1 billion milestone.

With nearly $390 million domestically and another $523 million from overseas markets, Lilo & Stitch has made $910 million worldwide. It has emerged as the second-biggest Hollywood hit of 2025, behind A Minecraft Movie, which it’ll soon overtake. Produced on a reported budget of $100 million, Lilo & Stitch is also relatively cheap, compared to the bloated blockbusters that studios routinely release these days. By comparison, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning reportedly cost four times as much and has grossed only about half of what Lilo & Stitch has so far.

Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, who broke out with the acclaimed A24 gem Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Lilo & Stitch has now overtaken several landmark blockbusters on the global box office charts. These include Zack Snyder’s mega-budget Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice ($832 million), Spider-Man: Homecoming ($878 million), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ($885 million), and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ($894 million). By comparison, the original Lilo & Stitch grossed around $280 million worldwide in 2002.

 

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The remake opened to moderately positive reviews and appears to have settled at a “fresh” 71% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Its audience score on the aggregator website, however, stands at a far more impressive 93%. Disney needed the win, after a string of big-budget underperformers this year, such as Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, and Snow White.