While the film officially released on Friday "Lilo & Stitch" made $14 million in previews on Thursday, which could be a Disney record.

Disney's remake of "Lilo & Stitch" has kicked off what is expected to be a massive box office run with $14.5 million from Thursday preview screenings. It's a result that is just above the $14.1 million Thursday preview total for Disney's 2018 Memorial Day release,

Lilo & Stitch's Thursday previews is below Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick for Memorial Day releases. Read on for more.

Chris Sanders, who directed and co-wrote the original animated Lilo & Stitch (2002) with Dean DeBlois, voices Stitch in the live-action film. He also wrote on How to Train Your Dragon (2010), The Croods (2013) and on The Wild Robot (2024), which he also directed.

Here are some movies you can see in theaters over Memorial Day weekend. In this live reimagining of the 2002 animated movie, “Lilo & Stitch,” a genetically engineered extraterrestrial creature, called Stitch (Chris Sanders), crash-lands on Earth and is adopted by an orphaned Hawaiian girl, Lilo (Maia Kealoha).