Ohana means family, and families spent the weekend in movie theaters. Lilo & Stitch, the latest live-action Disney film, made $183 million domestically during the four-day Memorial Day weekend opening. It saw a $361.3 million global total.

The movie set a new Memorial Day weekend record, surpassing Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick, which made $160 million in 2022. On Memorial Day it earned a near-record $37 million.

Lilo & Stitch is now the second biggest domestic opening during any four-day holiday weekend. The record is currently held by Black Panther which opened at $242 million during Presidents Day weekend in 2018.

It is third biggest debut for a Disney live-action movie behind The Lion King ($191.7 million domestic opening) and Beauty and the Beast ($174.7 million domestic opening). Lilo & Stitch’s opening also pushed Disney’s 2025 global box office total to $2 billion, making it the first studio to reach that mark this year.

Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which also opened on Memorial Day weekend, made a combined $262 million domestically in their collective debuts. This set a new record for two blockbuster films going head to head in a Memorial Day weekend opener. The previous record was held by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Shrek the Third, which earned a combined $207 million when they opened on the holiday weekend in 2007.

Similar to other Disney live-action movies, Lilo & Stitch uses the original animated feature as the basis for the film and builds on it with new material. Stitch is an alien creature created to be destructive who hijacks a spaceship and crash lands in Hawaii. There he meets Lilo (Maia Kealoha), a precocious girl who quickly falls for the peculiar “dog” she and her sister Nani (Sydney Agudong) find at the shelter. Lilo, Stitch, and Nani learn about Ohana just in time for the little guy to be pursued by Cobra Bubbles (Courtney B. Vance), and Jumba (Zach Galifianakis) and Pleakley (Billy Magnussen).

Chris Sanders, who voiced Stitch in the original movie, is back to voice him in the remake. Original Nani voice actress Tia Carrere and original David voice actor Jason Scott Lee returned to play new characters. The cast also includes Hannah Waddingham as Grand Councilwomen, Kaipo Dudoit as David Kawena, Amy Hill as Tutu, and Christian Yeung as Agent Zhou.