'Zootopia 2' roars to record-setting international field workplace with $556 mil opening

“Zootopia 2” had a roaring and record-setting opening on the field workplace.

The animated animal metropolis sequel from the Walt Disney Company introduced in $96 million in North America over the weekend, earned $156 million over the five-day Thanksgiving body, and scored a staggering $556 million globally since its Wednesday opening, in response to studio estimates Sunday.

That made it the very best worldwide opening ever for an animated film, the fourth highest international debut of any sort, and the highest worldwide opener of 2025.

“Wicked: For Good” stayed aloft in its second weekend for Universal Pictures, incomes one other $62.8 million domestically over the weekend for a North American complete of $270.4 million. The second half of the “Wicked” saga has introduced in $393 million internationally.

The pair of PG-rated sequels mixed to make the Thanksgiving weekend a glimmering exception to an in any other case darkish yr at film theaters. The five-day vacation run introduced in $290 million in complete, $188 million of it coming Friday by Sunday.

That may very well be a blip or a sign {that a} robust end may salvage Hollywood’s field workplace yr, with “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” among the many movies nonetheless to be launched in 2025.

“This is a great result and a big momentum builder for the box office as we head into the final four weeks of the year,” mentioned Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore.

“Zootopia 2” arrives nearly a decade after the unique, successful that outpaced expectations and had a March home opening of $75 million.

Like the primary, it options the duo of bunny cop Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and small-time hustler fox Nick Wilde ( Jason Bateman ) in a metropolis of comically domesticated wildlife.

Dergarabedian mentioned the sequel represented “a beloved franchise delivering what audiences were looking for around the world.”

It was the fourth greatest North American opening of 2025. But its greatest market was China, which made for almost half of the movie’s international complete with a whopping $272 million in ticket gross sales. No American-made animated movie has ever opened larger. It was the second greatest nonlocal movie opening of all time in China, after “Avengers: Endgame.”

Such a end in China was as soon as nearly commonplace for Hollywood. But in recent times, as geopolitical relations have grown uneasy, box-office outcomes have turned unpredictable at greatest. Aside from a handful of exceptions, just like the “Jurassic World” movies, Hollywood has come to nearly write off Chinese theaters and recalibrate blockbuster budgets accordingly.

The large bounty in China for “Zootopia 2” may very well be an aberration or a sign of a thaw within the freeze. In current years, China, which censors which movies which can be launched in theaters, has leaned extra towards homegrown fare. Earlier this yr, the regionally made blockbuster “Ne Zha 2” grossed $1.8 billion in China.

“Zootopia 2” had a transparent path to an enormous Chinese opening. The first “Zootopia,” recognized there as “Crazy Animal City,” grew right into a shock hit, grossing $236 million. Shanghai Disneyland has a theme land dedicated to the movies.

“Wicked: For Good” did not appear to be damage by the beastly competitors as Universal’s gamble of splitting the Broadway story of Oz into two movies continued to repay. It introduced in a worldwide weekend complete of $92.2 million.

“Hamnet,” sure to be a serious participant in awards season after a celebrated competition run, had a powerful restricted opening and landed within the general prime 10. In simply 119 theaters it earned $1.35 million from Wednesday by Sunday and $880,000 on the weekend, with a per-theater common of greater than $11,000. Director Chloe Zhao’s Shakespeare story starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal expands subsequent weekend.

With ultimate home figures being launched Monday, this listing elements within the estimated ticket gross sales for Friday by Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, in response to Comscore:

1. “Zootopia 2,” $96.8 million.

2. “Wicked: For Good,” $62.8 million.

3. “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,” $7 million.

4. “Predator: Badlands,” $4.8 million.

5. “The Running Man,” $3.7 million.

6. “Eternity,” $3.2 million.

7. “Rental Family,” $2.1 million.

8. “Hamnet,” $880,000.

9. “Sisu: Road to Revenge,” $810,000.

10. “Nuremberg,” $749,325.

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