Lilo & Stitch becomes highest grossing movie of 2025 while M3GAN 2.0 languishes

Throwing in the rest of its worldwide haul, "Lilo & Stitch" is now up to $972.7 million. That means it now feels likely it falls just short of $1 billion, unless Disney is intent on pushing the pedal to the metal until that extra zero is added. Even so, "Lilo & Stitch" passed "A Minecraft Movie" this weekend to become the highest-grossing movie of 2025. Domestically, the beloved blue alien is still second to "Minecraft," and that won't change. The live-action "Lilo & Stitch" has already earned itself a sequel, and now it can hold the title of highest-grossing movie of 2025...for now. "Jurassic Park Rebirth" has a chance to overcome it, but it will be owing to international success. Domestically, there seems to be "Jurassic" fatigue.

"M3GAN 2.0," meanwhile...yeah, it's been an utter disaster. In its opening weekend the sequel made $10.2 million domestically, one-third of what the first movie made. The film will be hard-pressed at this point to get to $30 million domestically in the course of its entire run. Finishing tied for sixth with a movie that is legging it out to try and get to a billion bucks is rough stuff, and it kills any idea of "M3GAN" moving forward as a franchise.

To his credit, producer Jason Blum has proactively been out and about talking about "M3GAN 2.0" bombing. Podcasts, print interviews, you name it, Blum has been out there owning up to the mistakes they made on this one. He summed it up well on Matt Belloni's podcast "The Town," saying:

We all thought Megan was like Superman. We could do anything to her. We could change genres. We could put her in the summer. We could make her look different. We could turn her from a bad guy into a good guy. And we classically over-thought how powerful people’s engagement was with her.

Personally, we think trying to throw elbows in the summer movie season was the real death knell for "M3GAN 2.0." The competition is just too stiff for attention. Dinosaurs, racecars, aliens. The sassy robot just couldn't compete.

(h/t The Hollywood Reporter)