EXCLUSIVE: Following a bidding war, Sony’s TriStar Pictures has landed the untitled supernatural romance pitch from Lilo & Stitch director Dean Fleischer Camp. The pitch went to market this summer following the billion-dollar box office success of his Disney live-action pic Lilo & Stitch, with…

Disney CEO Bob Iger said new IP is of great value to the company longer term while the popularity of franchises remains high with potential sequels or bringing “them forward in a more modern way, as we’ve done. Or converting what was previously animation to live action," as per Lilo & Stitch and…

After becoming a sensation on Disney+ with its original 2002 movie and spinoff series, Lilo & Stitch will invade the Mouse House’s OTT service again on Wednesday, September 3. That with premiere date reflects a massive 124-day theatrical window since the pic opened in cinemas on May…

EXCLUSIVE: After turning Disney’s Lilo & Stitch live-action pic into the first billion-dollar hit of 2025, director Dean Fleischer Camp has a new pitch in the market that he hopes sweeps buyers off their feet. Sources tell Deadline that Camp and the producing team behind his Oscar-nominated…

After writing and directing the 2002 animated pic, Chris Sanders is returning to pen the live-action sequel to the box office smash hit Lilo & Stitch. Sanders, who co-directed the original movie and voiced Stitch, reprised his voice-over role in the 2025 update.  This year’s live-action feature…

Disney's Lilo & Stitch has crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office, now with $1.001B through Wednesday. The sweet little girl and her mischievous blue alien finally give Hollywood its first billion-dollar movie of 2025, with Lilo & Stitch the only studio film to reach the milestone…

MONDAY UPDATE, with actuals: DC/Warner's Superman flew a bit higher in the Sunday actuals, reaching a $220M global start. The upward shift is powered by domestic, which came in at $125M, while the international box office take remained set in steel at $95M. Also moving up from Sunday's…

SUNDAY UPDATE: Universal/Amblin's Jurassic World Rebirth has come in with a monster $318.3M global launch, making it the biggest worldwide opening of the year for a studio film so far. It's also got bragging rights to becoming the 2nd best start for the franchise, behind 2015's Jurassic…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney’s A Lilo & Stitch continues to upend the box office with the duo taking out Warner Bros and Legendary’s pigs and chickens pixelated pic A Minecraft Movie to become the highest grossing MPA movie year-to-date with $957.6 million worldwide and $553.9 million international. A Minecraft…

It just hit social media. Disney has announced that Lilo & Stitch 2 is happening. The project is in development no word on whether castmembers Chris Sanders aka Stitch, Maia Kealoha aka Lilo or director Dean Fleischer Camp are returning. The live action feature take of the 2002 classic…

UPDATED: Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later has come alive with an estimated $60M worldwide bow. The split is dead even at the domestic and international box office with $30M each for the auteur-driven R-rated Sony horror movie. This is slightly above pre-weekend projections. The opening in 59…

David Hekili Kenui Bell, the actor best known for his recent turn in Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch, has died, per a Facebook post shared by his sister Jalene Kanani Bell. A cause of death was not listed. “It is with a heavy heart I share that my sweet, generous, talented, funny, brilliant…