(L to R) Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) and Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ ‘Zootopia 2’. © 2025 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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- ‘Zootopia 2’ was a success on the Thanksgiving vacation field workplace.
- The Disney animated sequel earned $156 million throughout 5 days.
- ‘Depraved: For Good’ had a stable second weekend.
Disney has lengthy staked out the five-day Thanksgiving vacation interval as prime field workplace actual property, priming certainly one of its animated films for launch as households are on the lookout for one thing to observe as a part of their celebrations.
And within the case of ‘Zootopia 2,’ the technique has labored, with the sequel to the 2016 authentic having fun with a profitable first enjoyable, ending up with $156 million for the prolonged weekend interval ($96.8 million from Friday to Sunday).
“Zootopia shall be modified furrrever…”
Launch Date: Nov 26, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Funds: $150,000,000
That places it simply behind final yr’s ‘Moana 2’ (which remains to be the highest Thanksgiving grosser) and forward of different Disney stablemates equivalent to ‘Frozen II.’
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How did ‘Zootopia 2’ do elsewhere?
(L to R) Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) and Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ ‘Zootopia 2’. © 2025 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Along with its home haul, the brand new film earned good opinions and broke some information abroad.
It scored the highest opening day of the yr to this point for an animated title in key markets, together with in France, Germany and Italy, an much more spectacular feat contemplating it isn’t a vacation elsewhere, to not to say a record-setting $272 million in China at a time when Hollywood is nervous about the way forward for the Chinese language market.
The film ended up with a large $556 million globally to face because the fourth-biggest opening weekend in historical past.
What else occurred on the field workplace this weekend?
(L to R) Bowen Yang is Pfannee, Bronwyn James is Shenshen, and Ariana Grande is Glinda in ‘Depraved For Good’, directed by Jon M. Chu.
‘Depraved: For Good,’ the second a part of Jon M. Chu’s formidable adaptation of the stage musical and Gregory Maguire ebook that current an alternate have a look at the storyline from ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ fell 62.2% from its opening weekend, however nonetheless put up some spectacular numbers.
It crossed the $200 million mark on the home field workplace on Thanksgiving day itself and ended up with a $93 million whole on the finish of the five-day interval, for a $270.4 million whole within the States and $393.3 million globally after 10 days on launch.
Whereas its opinions and incomes energy may not have been as rapturous as final yr’s first ‘Depraved,’ it’s clearly nonetheless enchanting audiences.
Third place went to ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,’ with the most recent entry within the magician heist franchise taking $10.1 million throughout the 5 days.
In fourth, we discover ‘Predator: Badlands’ with $85 million thus far domestically since launch, forward of fifth-placed entry ‘The Operating Man,’ which actually appears to have run out of steam, ending up with $34 million whole within the US thus far.
There have been few new entries trying to problem Disney’s dominance of the vacation, however A24 did open whimsical afterlife comedy drama ‘Eternity’ in additional than 1,400 theaters, the place it took in $5.2 million.
(L to R) Callum Turner and Elizabeth Olsen in ‘Eternity’. Photograph: A24.