“I felt like some of her precociousness and her maturation over the course of the film really only made sense for a kid that was actually that young,” director Dean Fleischer Camp says.

Disney’s Lilo & Stitch is crushing Memorial Day weekend box office records while Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is running in a distant second.

In the new film, Cobra Bubbles is just a CIA agent, and his role as Lilo's social worker was given to the new character Mrs. Kekoa (played by Tia Carrere, the voice of Nani from the animated film).

Disney’s live action version of “Lilo & Stich” earned a staggering $145.5 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, the second biggest domestic opening of the year aft...