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How Disney’s live-action remakes have fared at the box office
June 2, 2025 - With an estimated budget of $75 million, “101 Dalmatians” earned nearly $34 million in the domestic box opening weekend, grossing nearly $321 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo.
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Highest Grossing Disney Live-Action Remakes
The first live-action remake that Disney created was The Jungle Book (1994). To date, there have been 20 Disney live-action remakes/ reimaginings (all are on the graph) that have grossed $12 billion at the box office. If Disney remakes were considered a separate franchise, it would place 2nd, just behind the MCU and above SpiderMan ($11.1 billion). More on reddit.com
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Why Disney’s Live-Action Remakes Are Not Paused
It's also important that's lilo had a 100 mill budget which is low for Disney. They need to stop with runaway budgets on movies instead of hoping for billion dollar hits to justify it. More on reddit.com
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Snow White box office trajectory compared with other Disney live action remakes.
I will be forever baffled at the decision to make the dwarves CG in a live action remake. It’s so stupid. Like making animals CG in lion king makes sense since they are animals. But these characters are actual humans that could be played by humans but Disney is like “nah, let’s make them terrible looking CGI characters instead”. More on reddit.com
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‘Lilo & Stitch’ Shatters Box Office Records with Massive Global Debut - The Walt Disney Company
Stitch himself is the reason the film is breaking all these box office records. More on reddit.com
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List of remakes and adaptations of Disney animated films - Wikipedia
2 days ago - This is a list of live-action or photorealistic remakes produced by Walt Disney Pictures of its animated feature films. The list also includes the films' sequels and spin-offs within their fictional universe.
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Highest Grossing Disney Live-Action Remakes : r/boxoffice
July 23, 2025 - The first live-action remake that Disney created was The Jungle Book (1994). To date, there have been 20 Disney live-action remakes/ reimaginings (all are on the graph) that have grossed $12 billion at the box office.
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Disney's Top 10 Highest Grossing Live-Action Remakes
August 1, 2025 - The film drew in an impressive worldwide total of $758 million, becoming Disney's second-highest-grossing live-action remake at the time, after Alice in Wonderland. The film's success warranted a sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in 2019, ...
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Every Disney Live Action Remake Ranked by Box Office Results
March 17, 2024 - Every Disney Live Action Remake Ranked by Box Office Results including Cruella, The Little Mermaid, and The Lion KingDisney
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Disney Live-Action Remakes (Lilo & Stitch), Ranked by Tomatometer | Rotten Tomatoes
May 23, 2025 - Ever since Disney’s $200 million psychedelic experiment Alice in Wonderland yielded a $1 billion return, the studio has been on the live-action remake train, adapting their classic cartoons for new generations to come.
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Every Disney Live-Action Remake, Ranked | TIME
May 20, 2025 - Four of the remakes—The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland, and Aladdin—have eclipsed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, with most of the other theatrical releases grossing well over $500 million.
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Ranking Disney’s Live-Action Remakes: Why 2025 Changes Everything - for Better or Worse?
The latest release, Lilo & Stitch (2025), shattered Memorial Day records and reinvigorated interest in the format. This came just months after Snow White underperformed, sending ripples across Disney’s development plans.
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All Time Worldwide Box Office for Walt Disney Movies
Overview of the various Worldwide Theatrical Distributors box office records for All Movies available at The Numbers.
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Live-Action Disney Remake Set To Hit Major Box Office Milestone & Overtake $954M Smash Hit
July 3, 2025 - The latest live-action remake from Disney, Lilo & Stitch, is on pace to overtake Warner Bros' biggest 2025 box office hit en route to being one of the year's biggest financial successes.
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r/boxoffice on Reddit: Why Disney’s Live-Action Remakes Are Not Paused
May 23, 2025 -

After the failure of Snow White, Disney seemed to have paused development on several live-action remakes that weren’t already deep in production—like Moana. It’s clear this shift happened because Snow White bombed much harder than expected, especially when compared to earlier remakes. And disney started to rethink if all live action remakes might be a hit

And honestly, yeah—it’s pretty clear that live-action remakes can’t just be pulled from any random era and still rake in a billion dollars. Even though jungle book almost did so it only worked because at that point it was the start of something new with Disney live action remakes . But now? You can’t expect major box office success from remakes of films most younger audiences barely know and the older generation that do know don’t care about anymore—or sadly aren’t here to see it like Snow White.

But I’m not entirely sure that Disney is giving up on it just yet what I think what will happen is Disney is probably going to refocus their remake strategy after the inevitable success of Lilo & Stitch, but with a tighter lens. That means sticking to millennial and Gen Z favorites. As for future projects I doubt any of the really old ones are ever being made again. Even the early 2000s ones might not be made just yet, and it’s not because of they have no nostalgia only because they are more likely further down the line after they’ve mined the more recent and popular 2010s content.

If I had to bet, Frozen is next after Moana. It has a mega-popular soundtrack, iconic characters, insane merch sales, and even a Broadway adaptation. If not Frozen, then Tangled—which we’ve already heard whispers about.

And look even if you’re not a fan of the remakes (I’m kind of indifferent myself—I don’t hate them, I just don’t care much), the one upside is they might still help boost the ever-shrinking box office pie. Whether or not they deserve to make bank I most certainly don’t think so, but hey those are just my thoughts

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How Disney’s live-action remakes have fared at the box office | AllSides
June 2, 2025 - With the recent live-action debuts of “Lilo & Stitch” and “Snow White,” Disney’s attempt at reimagining its animated classics continues to draw mixed reactions and varying box office success. The long-awaited “Snow White” remake, which came to theaters earlier this year, faced ...
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r/boxoffice on Reddit: Snow White box office trajectory compared with other Disney live action remakes.
January 30, 2025 - Imagine if people were saying that loudly, every few seconds, for the last 3 years. ... The Little Mermaid remake was profitable, it made $570M worldwide with half of that being international
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r/disney on Reddit: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Shatters Box Office Records with Massive Global Debut - The Walt Disney Company
May 27, 2025 - The Lilo & Stitch remake is now the first Hollywood movie to hit $1 billion at the box office in 2025 ... Welcome to your Lilo & Stitch Subreddit! A dedicated space celebrating the heart and soul of this beloved franchise.
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Snow White ends its box office run as one of Disney's worst performing live-action remakes in almost a decade, proving a rare misfire | GamesRadar+
June 10, 2025 - Pete's Dragon, a remake of the 1977 film of the same name, racked up a global box office total of $143.7 million. In comparison, Snow White has ended its run with $205.5 million. There is one remake that has fared worse, however – Mulan, released ...
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r/MauLer on Reddit: Snow White’s failure at the box office has halted Disney’s live action remakes. However Lilo & Stitch might end up reversing this change
February 20, 2025 - That is still more up in the air, but Moana 2 did really well so they might commit to finishing the live action remake ... I mean it's done filming. No shit they're going to commit ... Regardless, yeah Moana is so popular that Disney isn’t going to pull the plug if they have gotten that far.
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List of Disney live-action remakes and adaptations ...
November 11, 2025 - This is a list of live-action or photorealistic remakes produced by Walt Disney Pictures of its animated feature films. The list also includes the films' sequels and spin-offs within their fictional universe.
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'Lilo & Stitch' Box Office: Another Go Woke Go Broke Disaster For Disney With A... Oh Wait... What's This? A $55 Million Friday?!
May 24, 2025 - Akin to last weekend’s initially HBO Max-bound Final Destination: Bloodlines, this mere-$100 million redo of the generationally popular 2002 toon was supposed to go straight to Disney+. But instead, the well-reviewed (69% fresh and 6.1/10 on Rotten Tomatoes) and well-received (a 5 on PostTrak and an A from CinemaScore) live-action remake is on track to set a new Memorial Day weekend record.