Disney executives are skipping around the Burbank lot as Lilo & Stitch is catapulting the studio past the $1 billion mark at the domestic box office with a 30% market share. Disney is the first studio to pass that milestone YTD. Excluding 2020, Disney has grossed $1B+ domestically for 20 consecutive years since 2005, the only studio to accomplish this.

Screening Partners select films and filmmakers to tour from a curated shortlist of submitted and invited films. Films are evaluated for consideration based on the subject matter and themes, potential programming or partnerships, and the film’s relationship to the South.

The film follows Dr. Kinsell’s fight to keep her clinic open while navigating the complexities of a potential deal with a university hospital. Capturing the local and the systemic, The Only Doctor
reflects the broader healthcare crisis while grounding its story in a woman’s deeply personal sense of responsibility to fellow humans as she believes that healthcare is a human right and most so in the wealthiest country in the world.

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.

Interesting to note that the last two Final Destination movies have had a history of holding from their Friday to Saturday, 2009’s previous opening record holder, The Final Destination dipped 6%, while 2011’s Final Destination 5 inched down by 15%.

Jackson’s fascination with film began early, captivated not just by stories on screen, but by how they were made. That curiosity turned into the start of a career in 1996 when he worked as a Production Assistant on the ABC miniseries “The Shining” while living in Colorado. This experience led Jackson to study Broadcast Journalism and TV Production at the University of Mississippi, where he also anchored the campus news and hosted a classic rock radio show.