'Lilo & Stitch' live-action sequel is on the way from Disney

Get ready, a live-action “Lilo & Stitch 2” is simply a spell astatine Disney.

The workplace tapped its favourite bluish alien experimentation to stock the quality Thursday connected societal media. Fans of the movie subordinate June 26 — oregon 6/26 — with Stitch, who is known arsenic Experiment 626 until Lilo gives him a existent name.

The announcement is unsurprising. The live-action adaptation directed by Dean Fleischer Camp has truthful acold grossed much than $914 cardinal worldwide since its opening implicit Memorial Day play successful May. It’s connected way to go the archetypal movie of the twelvemonth to surpass $1 cardinal astatine the planetary container office.

The announcement, which features Stitch taking a joyride successful a pinkish convertible done Walt Disney Studios, is fundamentally a triumph lap. (The live-action “Snow White,” which was besides released earlier this year, grossed conscionable $205.7 cardinal worldwide.)

Stitch is besides 1 of Disney’s astir fashionable characters. The chaotic and cute alien introduced successful the 2002 animated “Lilo & Stitch” leads 1 of the top-selling Disney franchises. While the archetypal movie was a humble container bureau occurrence — grossing astir $275 cardinal worldwide — it besides spawned a follow-up animated TV bid and a mates of direct-to-video sequels. (Audiences volition person to hold and spot whether the live-action sequel volition beryllium based connected 2005’s “Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch.”)

“Lilo & Stitch” centers connected the relationship forged betwixt Lilo, an orphaned young Hawaiian miss being raised by her older sister, and Stitch, an assertive and destructive alien experimentation who escapes to Earth. Although it has been positively received by audiences, the live-action remake earned lukewarm reviews from critics. In a reappraisal for The Times, Carlos Aguilar wrote the movie was “less vibrant and proficiently pleasant” and suggested viewers “revisit the superior hand-drawn version.”

“Lilo & Stitch’s” occurrence comes astatine a clip erstwhile archetypal films — including animated movies similar Pixar’s “Elio” — are struggling astatine the container office. Studios person turned to mining acquainted and reliable past successes for remakes and sequels. DreamWorks’ live-action adaptation of “How to Train Your Dragon,” for instance, has earned much than $371 cardinal worldwide since hitting theaters earlier this month.