The Sleeping Beauty spin-off Maleficent truly paved the way for modern live-action remakes of animated classics, and Disney hasn’t slowed down since. Despite the fluctuating success between each one — 2025’s Lilo & Stitch film grossed over $1 billion worldwide while 2026’s Moana grossed roughly $260 million worldwide — Disney has continued its push for live-action remakes, especially of its classic princess movies. Tangled is the most recent princess movie to get the live-action-adaptation treatment, and, to be honest, I’m unapologetically excited about it…assuming Disney does it right.

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