Lilo & Stitch | May 23, 2025 | Live-action | Dean Fleischer-Camp (Marcel the Shell) directs

[dudalb]

8 hours ago, Jonwo said:

The Emperor's New Groove is quite hard to cast as well in live action as well.

 

It's tricky because of the ERB estate but Tarzan would work brilliantly in live action and it's the most successful adaptation of the character financially. 

At least recently.

The Johhny Weismuller Tarzan movies in the 30;s and 40;s were hugely sucessful.

[Darth Lehnsherr]

On 8/14/2024 at 3:18 AM, WittyUsername said:

Is there any other 2000s Disney animated movie that would even be worth doing a cynical nostalgic remake for? The only potential one I can think of is Princess and the Frog, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney steers clear of that out of fear of backlash. 

Yeah I think there's way too much to go wrong with a Princess and the Frog remake plus it wasn't that successful initially at the BO. As others mentioned the only one they could think of is The Emperor's New Groove but that would be hard to translate that comedic energy to live action.....which hey has never stopped them before with these movies so maybe they go for it. 

[Jonwo]

It's not animated but I'd love to see a remake of Newises that is an adaptation of the musical and not the original film. It's one of the few times where the adaptation is more successful than the source material.

 

 

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

It's not animated but I'd love to see a remake of Newises that is an adaptation of the musical and not the original film. It's one of the few times where the adaptation is more successful than the source material.

 

 

I feel like they will eventually over the next decade. With Bale in the Robert Duvall role, naturally.

[dudalb]

One project Disney announced but apparently put into limbo was a ner version of The BLack Cauldron.

The original was a box officer disaster for Disney, and was pretty weak, but the source material books are great, and could make a good series of movies. Problem Disney did with the original was rather then just adapt the first novel, they took stuff from all five of the bookd and tried to cram them into one movie. No wonder it flopped.

The documentary "Waking Sleeping Beauty" goes into the making of BLack Cauldron a little. It shows the head of Disney animation with a set of the five Lloyd Alexancer novels, and saying "First thing was fitting five novels into a single movie" . That is why you failed, youngling.

[Human]

The Walmart I work at is putting Stitch in 2 major Christmas displays.  One is a giant Stitch inflatable, and the other is a Stitch lawn ornament right next to the Santa Clause inflatable on the stage.  Looks like either Walmart believes in the merchandising potential or Disney and Walmart decided Wish was a fluke and should work together again (bad times).  

 

Makes sense, as Stitch seems to be our best selling Disney merchandise.

[justnumbers]

Hate how sometimes Studios just take forever to date something. They already said Summer 2025. Just stick a date already.

[toutvabien]

When does this release in the Summer? Disney has Thunderbolts on 5/2, Elio on 6/13 and Fantastic Four on 7/25. I assume either Memorial Day or they sneak this amongst the already busy July?

 

Honestly, maybe go for Labor Day or have it be one of their Holiday releases.

[Mickiland16]

If it's really in the summer there should be a trailer probably before the year ends (using their other movies as a comparison) as they usually choose Memorial Day or July (Fantastic Four delay?). Maybe in time for either Moana 2 or Mufasa. 

 

Although, they could release this in august as well, even of it's not so common for them. 

[elinio]

I think it will be July with the date of Fantastic Four. (25th july)

 

And Fantastic Four will we release in november (7th november)  because Blade  will not be release in november.

 

Fantastic Four is still filming. It will not be release in July.

Edited September 27 by elinio

[Human]

They added stickers of Stitch and Angel (ensemble dark horse from the show) to the wall leading to the Christmas center.  Christmasland has lots of Stitch.

[AniNate]

I think F4 is gonna be delayed, but Disney may also just be waiting to see how other studios' strategies play out before giving this an exact date. I suspect they might be considering some kind of reshuffle involving Elio, but they're hoping Uni makes a move with the Dragon remake first.

 

Feel like we should have a further update by around the time Moana 2 releases.

 

 

 

Edited October 1 by AniNate

[kayumanggi]

May 23, 2025

 

 

[justnumbers]

Memorial Day weekend baby

[YM!]

Think Stitch is the dark horse summer winner this year. Great spot too. Still think wish they gave Elio the Memorial Day spot, as Dragon is going to kill it.

[AniNate]

So ultimately they went with exactly the dates people thought they would. I guess they really were just waiting to announce them until they could create their own media discourse.

[Maggie]

MI8 is screwed. Could open at #2

[Mickiland16]

Considering that even Mission Impossible 6 opened with "only" $61M, I don't think it's a "could", Lilo & Stitch is opening at #1 unless the aliens looks so terrible that it turn off the audience. 

[toutvabien]

Yea, unless marketing is piss poor, this is 100% opening bigger than MI.

[Human]

2 minutes ago, toutvabien said:

Yea, unless marketing is piss poor, this is 100% opening bigger than MI.

I think it is opening bigger than MI8 even with piss poor marketing.