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Khaleej Times
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
'Lilo & Stitch' live-action remake brings human connection to the fore
'Lilo Stitch' is the latest Disney animation to get a live-action remake, with the medium allowing a closer look at the main characters' relationships, its makers say. Like its predecessor, the new movie, which begins its cinema rollout this week, tells the story of a young Hawaiian girl called Lilo, played by newcomer Maia Kealoha, who befriends a fugitive alien who crash lands on Earth, and names him Stitch. After the death of her parents, Lilo is under the care of her sister Nani, who is struggling to juggle all her responsibilities - all while new family addition Stitch wreaks havoc around them. "It has the same heart and it has the same fun and Hawaiian rollercoaster ride of chaos that is Stitch," actor Sydney Agudong, who plays Nani, told Reuters. "But at the same time, I think the beautiful thing about being able to do a live-action is that you get the nuance of human connection. And I think with Maia and I's (audiences) get that true sense of family and that it doesn't actually always have to be blood." Director Dean Fleischer Camp said the 2002 animation's characters and setting allowed for scope to work in a new form. "Unlike so many other Disney stars mostly humans, it takes place in a real contemporary just felt like something like 'oh that will benefit and be different in a live-action setting'," he said. "Live-action affords you the opportunity to dig deeper on some of the human relationships and the emotions." Several cast members from the 2002 animation return in the new film, including Chris Sanders, who once again voices Stitch. Tia Carrere, who voiced Nani, plays new character Mrs Kekoa, with co-stars Amy Hill and Jason Scott Lee also in new roles. 'I think we grew the ohana for this film," Fleischer Camp said, referring to the Hawaiian word for family and the movie's central theme. "It was great because so many of the people that worked on the original were game and excited to come was just great to see those having a bit of a reunion themselves."
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Lilo & Stitch' Becomes Disney's Second Most Viewed Live-Action Trailer With 158M
The box office is horribly sluggish but there is a silver lining in summer, evident in Disney's live-action take of 2002 animation toon Lilo Stitch which opens on May 23. How's that? The 24-hour traffic for the trailer that dropped this week clocked 158M views, making it the second most viewed Disney live-action trailer of all time, behind only 2019's The Lion King teaser trailer. Within an hour of release, Lilo & Stitch reached the No. 1 spot for trending on Twitter/X and remained in the top 10 for the hours following. The trailer also trended on YouTube, taking the No. 1 spot following release and even reached No. 1 on China's Douyin platform. More from Deadline Disney's 'Lilo & Stitch' Trailer: New Teaser Shows Stitch Causing Live-Action Chaos Disney's 'Freakier Friday' & Live-Action 'Lilo & Stitch' Get Summer 2025 Release Dates 'Lilo & Stitch': Disney Offers First Look At Stitch, Sets Summer 2025 Release For Live-Action Movie A small glimpse of the movie was revealed at Disney's D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event last August. Then, during this year's Super Bowl game, a spot featuring Stitch 'crashing' the field generated 173.1M views in 24 hours, making it Disney's most viewed spot digitally. Lio & Stitch tells the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Pic is directed by award-winning filmmaker Dean Fleischer Camp, with a screenplay by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes, and stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Hannah Waddingham, Chris Sanders, with Courtney B. Vance, and Zach Galifianakis, and introducing Maia Kealoha. 'Lilo & Stitch' is produced by Jonathan Eirich, Dan Lin, with Tom Peitzman, Ryan Halprin, Louie Provost, Thomas Schumacher serving as EPs. The original movie grossed $145.7M domestic, $273.1M worldwide at the box office. The movie opened to $35.2M at the domestic box office. Disney fires off summer on May 2 with Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*. Best of Deadline Which Colleen Hoover Books Are Becoming Movies? 'Verity,' 'Reminders Of Him' & 'Regretting You' Will Join 'It Ends With Us' Everything We Know About 'Freakier Friday' So Far Everything We Know About 'Ted Lasso' Season 4 So Far
