Walt Disney Co.’s “Zootopia 2” is now the highest-grossing U.S. animated movie of all time, the corporate mentioned Sunday.
The animated sequel to 2016’s “Zootopia” raked in $1.7 billion in worldwide field workplace income as of Sunday. The film edges out the earlier file holder, “Inside Out 2.” The 2024 Disney and Pixar hit grossed $1.69 billion.
Disney Leisure Co-Chairman Alan Bergman famous the movie’s worldwide enchantment in an announcement Sunday in regards to the new file.
“This milestone belongs in the beginning to the followers all over the world whose enthusiasm made it potential,” he mentioned within the assertion.
The movie has earned the majority of its cash abroad, with a world field workplace whole of $1.31 billion. Within the U.S. and Canada, “Zootopia 2” has made $390 million.
The film’s largest worldwide haul has come from China, the place “Zootopia 2” grossed $610 million to date.
The primary “Zootopia” was a shock hit in China, the place audiences related with rabbit cop Judy Hopps’ storyline of transferring from a small rural village to the large metropolis, in addition to the unconventional relationship between Judy and her companion Nick Wilde, a fox, Disney executives have mentioned.
Disney then constructed on that recognition by opening a “Zootopia”-themed land in Shanghai Disneyland — the one such themed space in any Disney park.
However the heat response in China was not a given.
A decade in the past, Hollywood blockbusters that obtained authorities approval may depend on the China market to spice up their worldwide field workplace totals.
However because the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China and the expansion of the native movie trade, that type of reception has been far more unreliable.
The final Disney movie that was launched in China and earned greater than $100 million was 2024’s “Alien: Romulus.”
