“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.

“Lilo & Stitch,” Disney’s latest live-action remake, is crash-landing in theaters this weekend.

Lilo & Stitch grossed a huge $14.5 million in previews, the largest preview gross of the year to date and a Memorial Day record for Disney’s live-action studio after besting The Little Mermaid ($10.3...