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| April 3 2025 | New poster shown at CinemaCon's Disney panel featuring Stitch causing havoc across Disney's various studios and sub-divisions. |
| March 19 2025 | Disney released posters featuring Stitch interacting with iconic objects from other Disney live-action remakes like Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. |
| March 14 2025 | Disney announced the trailer received 158 million views within 24 hours, becoming the company's second-most viewed live-action film trailer. |
| 2025 | Chris Sanders completed voice recordings for Stitch, doing five separate recording sessions of about four hours each. |
| March 12 2025 | Official trailer released on Chris Sanders' 63rd birthday, revealing several characters other than Stitch for the first time. |
| 2025 | Vans announces a renewed sponsorship of the Warped Tour music festival, demonstrating continued commitment to music and youth culture. |
| February 9 2025 | TV spot created for Super Bowl LIX, showing Stitch 'interrupting' the kickoff by running around Caesars Superdome like a football player. |
| February 3 2025 | Dan Romer was confirmed to be working on scoring the live-action Lilo & Stitch film remake. |
| 2024 | Patagonia launches the 'Vote Her' campaign, partnering with the League of Conservation Voters to encourage voter participation and engagement on climate policy. |
| December 18 2024 | Another crossover poster and teaser trailer released, showing Stitch being held up similar to baby Simba in The Lion King, with a trailer featuring Stitch in water wings. |
| November 27 2024 | New poster released featuring Stitch with a Kakamora from Moana in his mouth, referencing the original film's crossover marketing campaign. |
| November 25 2024 | First teaser trailer released, showing Stitch destroying a sandcastle on a beach modeled after the Disney production logo. |
| November 22 2024 | Disney published the first teaser poster featuring an extreme close-up of Stitch. |
| November 8 2024 | During D23 Brazil, Disney released a still from the film showing Stitch wearing a lei and standing on Lilo's bed. |
| October 2024 | The film was officially given a specific theatrical release date of May 23, 2025. |
| August 2024 | Disney shifted the film's release strategy from streaming to a summer 2025 theatrical release. |
| August 9 2024 | First look at the live-action Stitch design revealed at the D23 convention, receiving positive reactions from Screen Rant and Collider. |
| March 2024 | Principal photography for the film finally wrapped up. |
| February 2024 | Film production resumed after the SAG-AFTRA strike. |
| August 9 2023 | Michael Lorenzen became the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter while wearing Vans, with his customized Vans UltraRange Exos with cleats. The Vans will be displayed in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. |
| July 2023 | Filming was suspended due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. |
| June 2023 | Jason Scott Lee revealed he will have a cameo in the film as the manager of the luau where Nani and David work. |
| June 10 2023 | Follow the Money investigative platform published an article exposing poor working conditions in Patagonia's Sri Lankan factories, where workers earn less than half of a livable wage and work 14-hour shifts. |
| May 1 2023 | A portion of the Kalanianaole Highway was closed for film production, marking a significant point in the filming process. |
| April 2023 | Billy Magnussen was cast as the voice of Agent Pleakley and Sydney Agudong was cast as Nani Pelekai. |
| April 27 2023 | Kaipo Dudoit was quietly recast as David Kawena after previous actor Kahiau Machado was found to have used a racial slur. Machado posted an apology on Instagram. |
| April 17 2023 | First day of filming was initiated after the initial delay. |
| April 16 2023 | A fire broke out in a trailer at the film's base camp in Haleiwa, causing approximately $200,000 in damage to costumes. The Honolulu Police Department classified it as first-degree arson and opened an investigation. |
| March 2023 | Maia Kealoha was cast in the lead role as Lilo Pelekai. |
| March 13 2023 | Original planned start date for principal photography in Oahu, Hawaii, which was later delayed. |
| February 2023 | Zach Galifianakis joined the cast, later confirmed to be voicing Dr. Jumba Jookiba. |
| February 2023 | Chris Kekaniokalani Bright was fully confirmed as the film's screenwriter. |
| January 2023 | Co-founder Ken Block died in a snowmobile crash, marking a tragic end for one of the company's original founders. |
| 2022 | Vans launched the VR3 product line, featuring products with 30% renewable, recycled, or regenerative materials, signaling a commitment to sustainability. VF Corporation planned to expand the VR3 collection across more footwear and apparel categories. |
| 2022 | Vans hosted the BMX Waffle Cup, a freestyle BMX invitational tournament at their Huntington Beach skate park, coinciding with the US Open of Surfing period. |
| 2022 | Acquired the swimwear brand It's Now Cool and launched MilkBar bikes. |
| November 2022 | A casting call confirmed the film was initially planned for a direct-to-streaming Disney+ release. |
| November 22 2022 | Initial casting call for the Lilo & Stitch remake was tweeted by the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment. |
| September 2022 | Chris Sanders revealed in an interview that Disney had not yet approached him about reprising his role as the voice of Stitch in the remake. |
| September 2022 | Yvon Chouinard transferred ownership of Patagonia's voting stock to the Patagonia Purpose Trust and nonvoting stock to Holdfast Collective, with the goal of using profits to address climate change and protect land. |
| July 14 2022 | Deadline Hollywood reported Dean Fleischer Camp was chosen to direct, with Chris Kekaniokalani Bright in talks to rewrite the script. |
| 2021 | Announced discontinuation of clothing production with added corporate logos to improve garment life-spans. |
| December 2021 | European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights filed a criminal complaint against Patagonia, alleging benefit from forced Uyghur labor in Xinjiang, China. |
| October 19 2021 |
Apocalypse Now
Final Cut SteelBook Edition released by Lionsgate in 4K Blu-ray with a 3 hours 2 minutes Final Cut runtime.
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| April 5 2021 | Patagonia pledges $1 million to Black Voters Matter and the New Georgia Project to support voter registration efforts in Georgia. |
| 2020 | Patagonia begins including 'Vote the Assholes Out' labels in clothing, targeting politicians who deny climate change. |
| November 2020 | Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported that Disney had not yet determined the release strategy for the Lilo & Stitch film, with uncertainty between theatrical and Disney+ distribution. |
| November 13 2020 | Jon M. Chu entered talks to direct the film, with Van Waes reportedly leaving the project and the studio seeking a new screenwriter. |
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