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Lilo & Stitch is a 2025 American science fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Rideback, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, it is a live-action animated remake of Disney's 2002 traditionally animated film Lilo & Stitch, with some elements also based on that film's animated sequels and spin-off television series.[1] The film stars Maia Kealoha in her film debut as Lilo Pelekai, and original Lilo & Stitch writer-director Chris Sanders reprising his voice role as Stitch, with Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B. Vance, Zach Galifianakis, and original cast members Amy Hill, Tia Carrere, and Jason Scott Lee appearing in different supporting roles.[7]

Development on a live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch began in October 2018, with writer Mike Van Waes and producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich attached. By November 2020, Jon M. Chu was in talks to direct, while Van Waes left the project despite still being credited. Fleischer Camp and Chris Kekaniokalani Bright were announced as the film's new director and writer respectively in July 2022, with casting taking place between November 2022 and June 2023. Principal photography ran from April to July 2023, filming during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike until suspending production due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and then in February and March 2024 after both strikes ended. Dan Romer composed the score, and Industrial Light & Magic provided the film's visual effects with the assistance of several other effects houses.

Lilo & Stitch premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on May 17, 2025, and was released in the United States on May 23, 2025. Despite receiving mixed-to-favorable reviews from critics, the film broke numerous records for Memorial Day weekend and has grossed $1.028 billion worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2025 and the highest-grossing live-action/animated hybrid in history, being the first of its kind to gross over $1 billion. A sequel is in development, with Sanders joining as a writer.