“Lilo & Stitch 2” will feature another character that fans of the franchise will be familiar with – Angel, the pink alien and Stitch’s girlfriend. The announcement was made through a brief title treatment at D23.

Maia Kealoha, who played Lilo in the 2025 blockbuster, took the stage to talk about the sequel. Then there was a brief title treatment, which teased the arrival of Angel – you could see her antennae rise up and make a Roman numeral “2,” er, “II.”

Angel, if you don’t know your “Lilo & Stitch” lore, is Experiment 624 (Stitch is 626 of course). She was introduced in “Stitch! The Series,” a show that followed the theatrical smash and has been present for a number of the “Lilo & Stitch” spinoff materials. She is also, crucially, a merchandising juggernaut, particularly in some of the overseas parks like Disneyland Paris. Angel sells a lot of plush.

The “Lilo & Stitch” live-action follow-up will be written and directed by Chris Sanders, who directed the original 2002 animated feature with frequent partner Dean DeBlois. Sanders was recently Oscar-nominated for his DreamWorks animated feature “The Wild Robot” and has remained an essential part of the “Lilo & Stitch” family, having voiced the character virtually every time he has appeared on screen or in theme parks ever since. Sanders is Stitch and Stitch is Sanders.

There is a new animated “Lilo & Stitch” short, entitled “Lilo & Scratch,” that will appear in front of Disney’s animated “Hexed,” in theaters this fall. (It looks incredible.)

“Lilo & Stitch 2” will hit theaters on May 26, 2028. And this time Stitch won’t be alone.

Last year the live-action adaptation of Lilo & Stitch proved to be a box office smash, and now Disney is giving the first look at the follow-up.

At the D23 fan event on Friday, the studio showed off a teaser from the upcoming film, revealing the addition of Stitch’s pink counterpart Angel. Also known as Experiment 624, Angel is another intergalactic alien who becomes Stitch’s love interest and was first introduced in Lilo & Stitch: The Series. “Wait, there’s two of them?!” Maia Kealoha, who starred as Lilo in the live-action movie, joked on stage as Angel’s aentenae were shown.

Lilo & Stitch 2 was put into development just a few weeks after the release of the first film, which went on to earn over $1 billion dollars at the box office, $423.7 million of that domestically. Chris Sanders, who co-created, co-wrote and co-directed the original Lilo & Stitch animated movie — as well as voiced the character of Stitch in both animated and live-action form — will direct the sequel, with Jonathan Eirich, who produced the initial live-action remake, back as producer via Rideback. The company’s Ryan Halprin is exec producing.

The story of the previous flim — a retelling of the beloved 2002 animated version — centers on a lonely girl who befriends a blue puppy, who she soon discovers is actually an escaped alien engineered to be a weapon of mass destruction.

The follow-up will be a brand-new story and is set to open in cinemas May 26, 2028, the beginning of the long Memorial Day weekend — following the same release pattern that the studio used in 2025. Alongside Sanders’ Stitch, the first film also starred Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham and Courtney B. Vance.

Ready to visit the “Ghost Market?”

Pixar’s second 2028 feature (after the small, low stakes “Incredibles 3”) is “Ghost Market,” which Pixar CCO Pete Docter teased will see the vaulted animation studio venturing into the supernatural.

The footage showed at D23 featured a spooky roadside diner. A kid walks in and sees a delicious-looking bowl of ramen. “Do you guys take Apple pay?” the kid asks. Then the ramen starts to dangle in the air, lifted by some unseen force. We then get cell phone footage of the kid, who tells the camera, “It’s basically a movie about hungry ghosts.” He promises that “Ghost Market” won’t be like other scary movies that will leave you traumatized … but then he sees the floating ramen and runs for his life.

After the clip, Docter explained that the kid is Kyle a fast-talking content creator from Chicago. His mom forces him to take a trip to Hawaii. “Kyle stumbles into a mysterious hidden market and he quickly realizes his hunt for a late night snack has turned into something bigger – Kyle has discovered the crossroads between the living and the dead,” Docter explained.

The project originally started life as a Disney+ original series, meant to follow “Win or Lose,” but was reworked after the studio shifted focus away from original series and back towards theatrical animated features and shorts.

“Ghost Market” is the latest Pixar original feature, after earlier this year’s “Hoppers” and next year’s “Gatto,” about a black cat living in hugely superstitious Venice.

“Ghost Market” arrives in theaters on March 10, 2028.