Disney's 'Lilo and Stitch' Box Office Shocks Speilburg/Cruise's Gungrabbing 'Minority Report'

Daily Box Office Mojo Report ^ | June 22, 2002 | Matt Drudge

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The lighhearted Disney cartoon 'Lilo and Stitch' has beaten Tom Cruise and Steven Spielburgs anti 2nd Amendment 'Minority Report' in preliminary box office estimate this weekend.

This may be a major sea change in Hollywood since the Dream Works film was expected to pull many times the box office of the family film this summer

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The people are coming to their senses!

I saw the Cruise film yesterday and about hurled when there was a standing ovation for a call to ban guns

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[spetznaz]

I think we should wait until Monday morning before we start saying one film 'won' over the other. After all the tally up to now is only for Friday (where Lilo+Stitch garnered 12.3 million and Minority Rep 11.3 mil). A lot could happen to change the ranking.

[Dan from Michigan]

Speilberg better give up his guns first......

[Paul Atreides]

I resolved not to see anymore schlock from Spielberg after his schmoozing with Bubba and his betrayal of the Boy Scouts.

[big'ol_freeper]

I just saw Minority Report today and thought it was excellent. Lilo and Stich does not look like thy type of movie I would want to bring my kids to.

[KneelBeforeZod]

why wouldn't lilo and stitch be #1 with the lilo and stitch cereal, happy meal, t shirts, toys, games, billboards, tv ads, etc etc etc etc. They have the parents by the short hairs.

[monkeyshine]

I didn't see it, and don't really care if you give away the ending (although other might) but what about the movie is so anti second amendment?

[Pearls Before Swine]

LILO is a well known boot loader. GRUB is another. Perhaps the movie should have been named "Lilo and Grub?"

As for Spielberg, I was going to see the movie, but I might have to stand up and yell "Shoot, Shoot, Shoot" when the gun-grab appeal is run.

[evolved_rage]

No kidding. I bet Schlmeilberg is armed to the teeth after that sodomy-rape stalker threat he had. Only the little people should not have guns.

[Darth Sidious]

There are two Steven Spielbergs. The first was the one from the mid-Seventies up 'til 1993, "Schindler's List" being his last great movie (and one of the greatest movies ever, IMHO).

But after that, Spielberg stopped being the google-eyed kid and bought into his own cult of personality, and began taking himself WAY too seriously... he became an entirely different filmmaker altogether. At times he's struggled to return to "the kid" but that innocence is gone forever. He'll never be as good as he was in, say, the 1980s.

Haven't seen "Minority Report" but will next week (for free, so no $$$ goes into his wallet :-), may file a report on it. But I've heard some very negative opinions about it from some trusted sources.

[Rocko]

It's worth seeing.

[JoeSchem]

It seems strange to me that a movie which apparently is about an all-powerful police state would be anti-gun. Someone should ask the Director of Shindler's List whether it would have been bad for the Jews in 1930s Germany to own guns.

[LenS]

Lilo & Stitch will win the weekend if those estimates are correct. It's a kid's cartoon. Though school is out, working parents still have little time to take the kids to a Friday matinee. It will do very well on Saturday and Sunday due to afternoon matinees.

Minority Report, on the other hand, is for an older audience. It will be more of an evening film. Which means that it do it's best numbers on Friday and Saturday nights. Sunday evening will be weaker since adults have work on Monday.

A Friday victory of $1 million for the kid's film indicates that it will win the overall weekend.

While critics, being 60's liberals, loved Minority Report (the gun control speech must have dazzled them after being forced to watch patriotic war movies these past six months), the film is only scoring a B- among filmgoers. To put that in perspective, Scooby Doo scored a B and The Bourne Identity scored a B+ (no news on what Lilo and Stitch is scoring).

[Joe_October]

Bottom line is they both are terrible films. Hollywood doesn't know how to make good movies anymore.

[GBA]

I haven't seen the movie. Was the standing "o" in the film or from the audience watching the film?

[robertpaulsen]

In the film. If I recall correctly, it was in response to a statement like "we hope that one day guns won't be necessary" or something like that.

[Andyman]

I really enjoyed Lilo and Stitch. It is a very good movie. The best Disney animated feature in a LONG time. Kids will love it.

[goodieD]

I still have a hard time understanding why Freepers don't mind handing their money over for liberal causes. Every time you go to see a Hollywood movie, part of your ticket goes to pay for NARAL, Handgun Control Inc., PETA, and Free Mumia. I won't sell my soul for a little entertainment.

[Kermit]

I just came home from seeing "Minority Report". At the end, the Pre-Crime Commisioner was presented a Civil War revolver as a retirement gift and he expressed his wish, that with Pre-Crime going national, that guns wouldn't be discharged in the future. I don't recall that he wanted to ban or confiscate all firearms. Am I wrong?

Overall, I thought it was a pretty cool movie, not as good as 'Enemy of the State', but still worth seeing.