What we’re seeing tonight, doesn’t come from Disney or Paramount, rather box office sources, but it appears that $180M is within range for Disney’s Lilo & Stitch after an estimated $47M, -15% from Friday. Even if Lilo finally files in the high $170Ms, big deal. It’s an epic opening record for Memorial Day. Saturday’s haul, a record for Memorial Day weekend, buries that of Top Gun: Maverick‘s Saturday ($38M) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($37.7M). 3-day looks to be $145M.
Rideback produced Lilo & Stitch after pitching the live action remake to Disney. This was around the time that Rideback was in post-production on Aladdin which it had also pitched to Disney as a live action remake.
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