Zootopia 2 Field Workplace Smashes But One other Main File In A Single Day

Zootopia 2 has damaged one other report earlier than its first full weekend in theaters even begins. 2025’s Zootopia 2 is a sequel to a 2016 Disney film that grossed greater than $1 billion in theaters.

The brand new film, which debuted on Wednesday, November 26 forward of American Thanksgiving, additionally appears on monitor to hit that milestone after incomes the second-best home field workplace previews for a Disney animated film ever, behind the 2024 smash hit Moana 2.

Per Selection, Zootopia 2 has taken in $34 million throughout its opening day in China. This marks the highest-grossing single-day haul for any U.S. animated film within the territory. Additionally it is the perfect opening day gross for any U.S. film in China since F9: The Quick Saga debuted in Could 2021 and the tenth-best U.S. opening day in China ever.

This Chinese language haul has pushed Zootopia 2‘s cumulative worldwide gross to $41.6 million. Its grosses will proceed rising, because it has solely opened in 17 worldwide markets up to now and can have debuted in most main markets by the top of Sunday (excluding Japan, which will get the film on the primary weekend of December).

To this point, Zootopia 2 has earned $80.1 million worldwide, which made the Disney animated sequel the forty fourth highest-grossing film of 2025 worldwide earlier than its first official weekend in theaters had even begun.

The success of Zootopia 2 comes just some months after China made the homegrown animated title Ne Zha II the primary film to ever gross greater than $1 billion in a single territory. It has since grow to be the highest-grossing animated film of all time, with its monumental worldwide whole of $1.902 billion blasting previous Inside Out 2‘s $1.699 billion.

Zootopia 2 cannot fairly examine with Ne Zha II, which had a $296.6 million opening weekend in China. Nonetheless, its success might converse to an elevated urge for food for animated films within the territory. Whereas China has just lately been extra selective with what U.S. titles can come to theaters within the area, this might spell excellent news for the worldwide prospects of future American animated films.

Different animated IP titles that can observe Disney’s Zootopia 2 into theaters embrace Toy Story 5, Ice Age: Boiling Level, Frozen III, and Shrek 5, so it’s solely doable that the brand new film’s report could possibly be damaged sooner fairly than later.

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