Additional supporting Disney CEO Bob Iger’s declare that “monitoring is gigantic” for Lilo & Sew, Fandango reviews that the live-action take of the traditional animated title posted the perfect first-day PG-rated ticket pre-sales yr up to now. Lilo & Sew opens on Might 23.
Lilo & Sew has surpassed all 2025 PG-Rated titles in first-day advance ticket gross sales on Fandango on the similar level within the gross sales cycle, together with A Minecraft Film, Snow White, Canine Man, and Paddington in Peru.
Lilo & Sew has additionally claimed the #2 spot as the perfect first-day ticket pre-seller for a Disney live-action film of all time on Fandango on the similar level within the gross sales cycle, solely behind the blockbuster hit, The Lion King (2019).
Monitoring signifies that Lilo & Sew is anticipated to make $120M over the 4-day Memorial Day vacation, forward of Paramount’s Mission: Unattainable – Remaining Reckoning which is anticipated to do $80M. For all motion pictures, it could possibly be a file Memorial Day weekend clearing $314.2M. We’ll see.
“Lilo and Sew have captured the hearts of households for years, and now audiences can relive the magic of their story with a contemporary and new heartwarming take,” mentioned Jerramy Hainline, EVP of Fandango. “It’s no shock that audiences are racing to our platform to safe their tickets for what is about to be a memorable Memorial Day weekend when Sew makes his triumphant return to the massive display screen.”
Lilo & Sew was named one of many high 10 most anticipated summer season motion pictures in Fandango’s 2025 Moviegoing Developments and Insights Research, which surveyed greater than 5,000 ticket consumers.
Iger on this AM’s earnings name additionally known as the studio’s 2026 lineup, “as sturdy as any slate that I’ve seen in a very long time, since — effectively in 2019 I feel was our greatest yr — the strongest I’ve seen since then.”
