Lilo & Stitch, Box Office and Ballerina
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Nostalgia helped Disney's live-action version of "Lilo & Stitch" dominate over the weekend. There are some other Disney classics ripe for a remake.
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Screen Rant on MSNLilo & Stitch Should Be The Start Of A New Era For Disney Live-Action RemakesLilo & Stitch has already become an enormous hit for Disney, and while the studio is certainly no stranger to remaking their own live-action remakes, this latest film is actually the start of a new era that is certain to be followed up on in the forthcoming years.
Now, we have Lilo & Stitch, a personal favorite of mine – a movie I was actually excited about before it came out. And I have to admit, there are specific changes in there that I didn’t mind, but there’s one I really can’t get behind. So today, we’re going to talk about it.
“Lilo & Stitch” walked a fine line in terms of changes made to the live-action flick. Many of the modifications, such as the new ending, upset fans, per The Hollywood Reporter. But the film stayed faithful enough to the original to keep out of controversial territory.
“It’s all based on Chris Sanders’ original artistic style [who directed the animated original with Dean DeBlois and returns to voice Stitch],” said Fleischer Camp, who comes from a drawing and painting background. “That movie, I think more than any Disney movie, is a representation of one artist’s lens on the universe.”
The Lilo & Stitch live-action remake has clearly struck a chord with the audience. The movie has been a massive blockbuster hit and, while many are praising the movie for having the same powerful emotional punch as the original, there have been some criticisms of the way the remake has changed the story.
Disney’s live-action “Lilo and Stitch” looks set to dominate the box office for the third weekend in a row. The film will hold off “Ballerina,” a “John Wick” movie, and it held off Tom Cruise’s “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning.
The film was originally aimed for Disney+. But it was rerouted to a theatrical release and is on a pace for at least $950 million in ticket sales.
We didn’t want to just restage the beats of the original film, as much as we both loved it,” Dean Fleischer Camp said in a new interview