“Zootopia 2” stuffed the field workplace competitors over Thanksgiving.
Disney‘s animated sequel, a buddy-cop comedy about anthropomorphic animals, debuted to $156 million in North America and $400 million abroad, delivering a shocking $556 million international tally. The household movie, which opened on Wednesday, cemented a number of information, together with the fourth-biggest worldwide debut in field workplace historical past (following “Avengers: Endgame,” “Avengers: Infinity Conflict” and “Spider-Man: No Manner House”), in addition to the biggest international launch of all time for an animated movie.
“The unbelievable response to ‘Zootopia 2’ displays each its worldwide attraction and the exceptional work of our filmmakers and forged,” says Disney Leisure co-chairman Alan Bergman. “It’s a proud second for Disney Animation and all of us at Disney, to not point out an effective way to start out the vacation season.”
“Zootopia 2” is turbocharging the field workplace, which has been majorly struggling for the reason that summer time. This was the second consecutive weekend that film theaters have been booked and busy after “Depraved: For Good” arrived forward of Thanksgiving with $147 million. The preliminary turnout for “Zootopia 2” can be a wanted win for Disney, which has fielded a string of theatrical misses, together with Marvel’s “The Improbable 4: First Steps,” Pixar’s “Elio,” “Tron: Ares” and “Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere.” After a rocky stretch, the studio will dominate by way of the remainder of the 12 months with “Zootopia 2” and December’s “Avatar: Hearth and Ash.”
Directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, the PG-rated “Zootopia 2” follows a rabbit police officer (Ginnifer Goodwin) and con artist fox (Jason Bateman) as they reunite to pursue a mysterious new reptilian resident (Ke Huy Quan) within the metropolis. The unique “Zootopia” opened in March 2016 with $75 million in North America and have become an enormous hit with $341 million domestically and $1.02 billion worldwide. With stellar evaluations and glorious word-of-mouth, “Zootopia 2” is poised to ship the same consequence — and will simply turn out to be the second film of the 12 months to surpass the $1 billion mark after Disney’s “Lilo & Sew” in Could.
“‘Zootopia 2’ has an ideal launch date, built-in model recognition and a PG score,” says Comscore’s head of market tendencies, Paul Dergarabedian.
Listed here are all of the information from opening weekend:
International
- Highest animated international opening of all time (based mostly on present charges)
- Fourth-biggest international opening of all time after “Avengers: Endgame” ($1.2 billion), “Avengers: Infinity Conflict” ($630 million) and “Spider-Man: No Manner House” ($587 million)
- Greatest international debut of 2025
- Highest international opening for an animated sequel ever
- Largest international opening ever for Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Highest international opening for any animated movie in Disney’s 102-year historical past
- Greatest opening weekend improve from unique to sequel for any animated franchise (239%)
Home
- Second-biggest Thanksgiving Day after “Moana 2” ($28 million)
- Second-highest Thanksgiving opening ever (three-day and five-day) behind “Moana 2” ($139 million over the three days and $225 million over the 5 days)
- Second-largest Black Friday ever with $38.9 million behind “Moana 2” ($54.3 million)
- Second-highest home Wednesday earlier than Thanksgiving of all time with $39.3 million after “Moana 2” ($57.5 million)
- Second-biggest preview gross for Walt Disney Animation sequel with $10.2 million, behind “Moana 2” ($13.8 million) and forward of “Frozen II” ($8.5 million)
China
- Sixth-highest debut of all time, together with native and Hollywood titles
- Second-best non-local movie opening of all time behind “Avengers: Endgame” ($632 million)
- Highest animated opening ever for a non-local title
- High-grossing non-local movie since 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame”
- Highest non-local animated movie of all-time after 5 days of launch
- Fourth-highest-grossing animated movie
- Already surpassed the full cume of Zootopia ($236 million) in 5 days
- Highest single-day gross of all-time for an MPA movie with $104 million on Saturday, surpassing “Avengers: Endgame” ($79 million)
- Finest opening for a Hollywood launch in 2025
Worldwide
- Fourth-highest worldwide opening of all time
- Greatest Walt Disney Animation worldwide opening of all time (based mostly present charges in the identical suite of markets)
- Highest worldwide animated opening of all time (based mostly present charges in the identical suite of markets)
- Largest Hollywood worldwide opening of 2025
