LILO AND STITCH Retains Box Office Top Spot As BALLERINA Trips With $25 Million Debut

Lionsgate's first John Wick spin-off, Ballerina, came in under expectations at the domestic box office this weekend, leaving Disney's Lilo and Stitch to hold on to the No. 1 spot...

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By MarkCassidy - Jun 08, 2025 07:06 PM EST

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Source: Via Toonado.com

Disney's live-action Lilo and Stitch movie continues to pack in audiences worldwide, and is well on its way to becoming the year's first billion dollar release.

The family-friendly adventure claimed the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office for the third consecutive weekend with $32.5 million from 4,185 venues, and has now taken in a total of $335.8 million domestically and $772 million globally.

Unfortunately, things aren't looking quite as positive for Ballerina.

Lionsgate's first John Wick spin-off, starring Ana de Armas as a dancer-turned-assassin, debuted behind already modest expectations with $25 million from 3,409 North American theaters. The R-rated action flick took in another $26 million from 82 countries overseas for a global start of $51 million. Ballerina had a reported production budget of $90 million, which is significantly more than the first three John Wick films.

Despite decent reviews and an A- CinemaScore, Ballerina simply doesn't seem to have enticed much of the John Wick franchise's fanbase into theaters this weekend.

“This is a weak opening for an action thriller spin-off,” says analyst David A. Gross of movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “Audiences are enthusiastic about the movie, they just aren’t attending in big numbers.”

Elsewhere in the box office charts, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning dropped to No. 3 with $15 million from 3,496 theaters in its third weekend of release. Karate Kid: Legends took fourth place with $8.7 million in its second weekend in theaters, and Final Destination: Bloodlines rounded out the top five with $6.4 million from 2,867 locations in its fourth weekend.

We have some potential heavy hitters such as 28 Years Later, Elio, How To Train Your Dragon and F1 still to come this month. Will one of them manage to knock Lilo and Stitch off the top spot?

The new movie's synopsis reads: "Lilo and Stitch tells the story of the bond formed between a lonely human girl named Lilo and a dog-like alien named Stitch, who is engineered to be a force of destruction. Pursuing aliens, social workers, and the idea of the bond of family figure into the proceedings."

Newcomer Maia Kealoha plays Lilo, and the cast also includes Zach Galifianakis, Sydney Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Courtney B. Vance, and original animated movie voice actors Tia Carrere, Amy Hill, and Jason Scott Lee. Chris Sanders once again voices Stitch.

Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) directs Lilo & Stitch from a script by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, based on a previous draft by Mike Van Wess. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich are producing under their Rideback production banner.

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LordMushu - 6/8/2025, 7:45 PM

Nice! Loved Lilo and stitch!

epc1122 - 6/8/2025, 7:49 PM

@LordMushu - how’d you like it compared to the original?

Knightstar - 6/8/2025, 7:48 PM

Ideologes will never learn...

Shivermetimbers - 6/8/2025, 8:42 PM

@Knightstar - ballerina was pretty good as far as John Wick style content is concerned. There was a lot more John Wick in it than I expected and I loved that they didn’t try to make it seem like she was his equal. The action was kickass.

JustAWaffle - 6/9/2025, 12:03 AM

@Shivermetimbers - That’s what I’ve heard. It was probably great, but came out at a hard time

cubichy - 6/8/2025, 7:54 PM

Lilo and stitch was ok, they didn't have the whale guy, and the Nani needed more curves, like in the toon version. But its the same story, I found it boring. Ballerina was way better, a bit over the top with violence, but I enjoyed it. John Wick shows up and hands her her ass. It's basically black widow and the red room. The best movie of the year is Karate Kid: Legend, go see it, it was the BEST.

incredibleTalk - 6/8/2025, 9:00 PM

@cubichy - I guess you didn't see Sinners?

DeepBlueFischer - 6/9/2025, 12:32 AM

@incredibleTalk - Sinners os not good...its literally From dusk til dawn but way less entertaining. I'm black and that sh*t p*ssed me off cause je really tried to fool me by throwing some clich..."ancestry this" bs in it. By the time they got to the party at the barn I said "this mf down ripped off Tarentino"...people gotta get his meat out of their mouths...Bp could have been 🔥🔥🔥.. it was just aight

HashTagSwagg - 6/8/2025, 7:55 PM

Ryguy88 - 6/8/2025, 8:03 PM

Wtf happened to Mission Impossible? That franchise got better with every movie up until Fallout, which was one of the best action movies ever and I'm pretty sure it hit near a billion dollars. Then they try to close the series out and release 2 mid tier movies that all of a sudden no one cares about? Weird.

HashTagSwagg - 6/8/2025, 8:10 PM

@Ryguy88 - Bad writers, apperently the last two had the same crew from fallout, all but one writer sapposidly.

Ryguy88 - 6/8/2025, 8:12 PM

@HashTagSwagg - Fallout was great because the narrative stayed focused and the set pieces were great. Dead Reckoning was way too all over the place and dragged between set pieces, which weren't as good as the previous 3 movies. I haven't seen the latest one yet.the plane stuff looks cool but it looks like the plot drags again.

HashTagSwagg - 6/8/2025, 8:18 PM

@Ryguy88 - Skipped the last one entirely, reckoning was just that bad. Worst villain in the entire franchise and Ghost Protocol had a villain who I only vaguely remember because of how forgetable his death scene was, something to do with a briefcase and falling on some parked cars.

HeavyMetal4Life - 6/8/2025, 8:20 PM

@Ryguy88 - that's your opinion about mid-tier. I would argue that The Final Reckoning is one of the best entries in the series and a great way to close out the franchise.

The reality though is that the box office market has changed heavily since covid. Movies that are high quality and once could have procured half a billion or more at the box office now struggle. Many people would rather just stay home and wait until the film comes out on streaming. Lilo & Stitch isn't the definiton of a high quality film, but its a feel good movie that appeals to the masses, particularly for kids, so its going to make bank. You gotta remember that Fallout came out in 2018. And even if Tom saved cinema through covid and delivered the mega box office hit (and high quality flick too) Top Gun: Maverick, that doesn't mean all other films will be like that. Heck, take comic book films. Several years ago, the idea of a Marvel movie (regardless of quality) not hitting 500 or 600 mil easily would have been unheard of. Now most of those movies are struggling to even break even. So its a widespread issue that is affecting multiple franchises, companies, genres, etc.

The Final Reckoning, btw (since this isn't mentioned in the article), is sitting at over 450 million globally, and this does not include updated totals from a number of foreign countries. For example, it was a major opening hit in China the other week and opened big there, but box office totals since last weekend for China have not come in yet according to the link below (also check out the figure for domestic). This film has some more longevity to it...

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Mission-Impossible-The-Final-Reckoning-(2025)#tab=box-office

HashTagSwagg - 6/8/2025, 8:23 PM

@HeavyMetal4Life - Holy shit, it's Tom Cruise himself

HeavyMetal4Life - 6/8/2025, 8:26 PM

@HashTagSwagg - hahaha lol

Shivermetimbers - 6/8/2025, 8:46 PM

@HeavyMetal4Life - I thought Final Reckoning was once of the worst in the franchise. It felt so obvious that they were just chasing the next set piece and it was a Mcguffin fest. It had zero believability. I don’t know, something was just off. It was over the top at times and just plain boring all the rest of the time.

HeavyMetal4Life - 6/8/2025, 8:46 PM

@Shivermetimbers - differences in taste I guess

Ryguy88 - 6/8/2025, 8:53 PM

@HeavyMetal4Life - yes, it's my opinion that it was mid toer and a fact it made less than half of its predecessor.

HeavyMetal4Life - 6/8/2025, 9:04 PM

@Ryguy88 - less than half of its predecessor? You might want to check box office totals and/or your math.

MyCoolYoung - 6/8/2025, 9:04 PM

@HeavyMetal4Life - a lot of people fail to acknowledge the changing landscape in theaters because a movie or two succeeds. Box office is down and have been for some time.

HeavyMetal4Life - 6/8/2025, 9:09 PM

@MyCoolYoung - yup exactly. Preach!

Feralwookiee - 6/8/2025, 9:24 PM

@HashTagSwagg - Speaking of that; Whatever happened to crazytomcruise?
He was a weirdo, but he was OUR weirdo!

RolandD - 6/8/2025, 9:58 PM

@Feralwookiee - He continued on after getting banned for that username. I think he was nibs also . Both of those usernames got banned for explicit sexual posts. He was Dr. Traegerr (sp). There was a mock account with a very similar name to that one, I believe.He was also WalterMelunz or however that one was spelled. I don’t think he’s on anymore unless he doesn’t post or really tamed his content. I mean, he stopped doing the sexually explicit ones, but he still had some pretty out their post sometimes. I could usually tell it was him if he started up a new account. I don’t know. There is still a nibs on here so I could be wrong about some of this.

Feralwookiee - 6/8/2025, 10:13 PM

@RolandD - I remember "Dr. Traegerr" lol.
Nibs doesn't ring a bell though.

I know he'd push the boundaries, but I never found his posts THAT offensive.

Thanks for the reply!

WhatIfRickJames - 6/8/2025, 8:19 PM

Ohana means family

HashTagSwagg - 6/8/2025, 8:27 PM

@WhatIfRickJames -

RitoRevolto - 6/8/2025, 8:22 PM

Yikes. That's a pretty impressive cast for it to be making so little money. Are people having action movie fatigue?

vectorsigma - 6/8/2025, 10:27 PM

@RitoRevolto - gun fu fatigue im guessing. I have it and skipped the movie.

RitoRevolto - 6/8/2025, 10:41 PM

@vectorsigma - Already? The John Wick movies are pretty much the only recent gun fu movies, no? I guess you could throw Deadpool in there too.

vectorsigma - 6/8/2025, 11:10 PM

@RitoRevolto - after part 4 yes. It got too repetitive for me and the lore and world building has reached its limit imo.

In JW part 1, i enjoyed the worldbuilding of its assasin world and we just scratched the surface. By the end of the 4th i think it had reached its limit and i felt Ballerina wont provide anything new. Its main draw are the action scenes.

But i will wait for it in digital or streaming in case i am wrong

HeavyMetal4Life - 6/8/2025, 8:30 PM

I haven't seen Ballerina yet, but for those that have, did you like it? Without mentioning spoilers... Seems like the audience score is very high.

Shivermetimbers - 6/8/2025, 8:47 PM

@HeavyMetal4Life - short answer, yes I liked it. If you are a fan of the JW movies, you will like it.

HeavyMetal4Life - 6/8/2025, 9:02 PM

@Shivermetimbers - yes, I am a fan

ModHaterSLADE - 6/8/2025, 9:02 PM

Nice that the actually good live-action remake is getting so much support.

ghostwax - 6/8/2025, 9:04 PM

🌠 BOMBSHELL 💣 💥 News:

Does Disney vet those with whom it partners??? 🤔

Hollywood Director Dean Fleischer-Camp has the undisputed #1 Box Office Smash with Disney's "Lilo & Stitch"...

Yet, the middle-class family that starred in Dean's award-winning 2016 film "Fraud" hasn't even received a formal accounting statement about any of that film's earnings for over a decade.

As the father portrayed in Dean's 2016 film said, "our family hasn't seen a dime since receiving the minuscule licensing fee for our YouTube channel footage way back in 2015.

Sadly, we don't really know anything at all about what that film has actually earned over the years -

Even if it is only pizza money, it is still our tiny slice to enjoy !!! 🍕
We aren't asking for what isn't rightfully ours.

It also seems patently disrespectful when such a hugely successful Disney movie director with the #1 film across the entire planet appears to treat us as a mere footnote in his portfolio by completely ignoring our repeated requests for info about that film's basic earnings, etc.

We are intentionally kept in the dark & don't know anything about the actual revenue relating to Dean's 2016 film.

The power dynamic seems crystal clear here.
The wealthy & privileged play by a different set of rules!

We still have that signed contract to show we certainly have the legal right-to-know about the earnings of that 2016 film & can show how this formal agreement has not been honored by the other parties.

A decade is more than enough time for a full accounting disclosure since we signed-on to make that movie.

✨Fast-forward:
Dean is now the Darling of Hollywood🏆 with a fast-approaching ~ $ 1 BILLION movie...

While we still wait & wait for pocket change via a itemized accounting statement of the prior film.

Thankfully, my family can fully substantiate our claims with our contract & all the correspondence email strings requesting fiscal information.

In the face of Hollywood greed, our righteous indignation burns bright:
Our grit & our willingness to employ unorthodox strategies will make sure our experience is heard loud & clear.

It is definitely time to "Flip the Script" ❗👊❗

PartyKiller - 6/8/2025, 9:20 PM

The last couple of years has seen a big rise in CGI kid's movies & a big fall off for live action movies. It takes time for studios to respond to a trend & will take them longer to develop new CGI kid's movies but they will start pumping out more of those movies & less big risk action movies that are lucky to hit $500 million when they used to hit $1 billion.

We may even see a studio or two turn a live action franchise into an animated one.

vectorsigma - 6/8/2025, 10:33 PM

@PartyKiller - the unfortunate realuty

Low quality film for kids getting good money at the BO.

Kids dont get fatigued, dont complain, not critical of overall quality and parents will blindly bting them if requsted.

Sad outlook for blockbusters

PartyKiller - 6/8/2025, 11:39 PM

@vectorsigma - We may see the day when out of work bums like Geeks + Gamers & Nerdrotic are attacking toddler movies.

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