There will be plenty of early 2000s nostalgia at movie theaters next year. Disney has set release dates for Freakier Friday and the live-action Lilo & Stitch.
Lilo & Stitch hits theaters May 23, 2025, which pits it against Paramount’s Mission: Impossible 8.
Freakier Friday will bow on Aug. 8, 2025. Warner Bros. already has a movie on that date, a Leonardo DiCaprio starrer directed by Paul Thomas Andreson.
Freakier Friday reunites Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, stars of the 2003 body-swap feature Freaky Friday. The original film centered on Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan), a mother-daughter pair who switch bodies for a day, and along the way learn the challenges that each are facing. Late Night director Nisha Ganatra is behind the project, which picks up with Anna having a daughter of her own, and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. “As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice,” reads the synopsis.
Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao all return for the sequel. Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan also star.
Lilo & Stitch is directed by Dean Fleischer Camp. The live-action, CGI hybrid follows the 2002 film, centering on the friendship between a human girl and a dog-like alien. Maia Kealoha will play Lilo, while original Stitch actor Chris Sanders returns. Disney revealed a first-look at the new movie at D23 in August.
