"Zootopia 2" Returns to #1 Spot

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All the Records Set in Zootopia 2's Opening Weekend
by Rebecca Rubin
Nov. 30, 2025


Zootopia 2 stuffed the box office competition over Thanksgiving.

Disney‘s animated sequel, a buddy-cop comedy about anthropomorphic animals, debuted to $156 million in North America and $400 million overseas, delivering a stunning $556 million global tally.

Here are all the records from opening weekend:




Domestic:

- 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 five days)

- Second-largest Black Friday ever with $38.9 million behind “Moana 2” ($54.3 million)

- Second-highest domestic Wednesday before 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 ahead of Frozen II ($8.5 million)





Global:

- Highest animated global opening of all time (based on current rates)

- Fourth-biggest global opening of all time after Avengers: Endgame ($1.2 billion), Avengers: Infinity War ($630 million) and Spider-Man: No Way Home ($587 million)

- Biggest global debut of 2025

- Highest global opening for an animated sequel ever

- Largest global opening ever for Walt Disney Animation Studios

- Highest global opening for any animated film in Disney’s 102-year history

- Biggest opening weekend increase from original to sequel for any animated franchise (239%)





International:

- Fourth-highest international opening of all time

- Biggest Walt Disney Animation international opening of all time (based current rates in the same suite of markets)

- Highest international animated opening of all time (based current rates in the same suite of markets)

- Largest Hollywood international opening of 2025





China:

- Sixth-highest debut of all time, including local and Hollywood titles

- Second-best non-local film opening of all time behind Avengers: Endgame ($632 million)

- Highest animated opening ever for a non-local title

- Top-grossing non-local film since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame

- Highest non-local animated film of all-time after five days of release

- Fourth-highest-grossing animated film

- Already surpassed the total cume of Zootopia ($236 million) in five days

- Highest single-day gross of all-time for an MPA film with $104 million on Saturday, surpassing Avengers: Endgame ($79 million)

- Best opening for a Hollywood release in 2025

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/z...nd-1236595794/





Universal’s Wicked: For Good dazzled with $93 million in its second weekend of release. Although the second half of Wicked was bigger in its debut, the follow-up isn’t holding as well as the first film.

However, Wicked: For Good still remains a juggernaut with $270.4 million domestically and $393.3 million globally after 10 days in theaters.




A24’s afterlife comedy Eternity, placed at #6 with $3.1 million from 1,348 cinemas over the traditional weekend and $5.2 million since Wednesday.

The film, starring Elizabeth Olsen as a woman who must choose between two men (Miles Teller and Callum Turner) with whom to spend the afterlife, will expand to theaters nationwide next weekend.




Chloe Zhao’s Shakespearean drama Hamnet, about the death of William Shakespeare’s son, placed at #8 with $880,000 from just 119 theaters over the weekend and $1.35 million during its first five days of release.

The film, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, is expected to be a major Oscar contender. Focus Features will slowly roll out the film over the next few weeks to build momentum.




Elsewhere, Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery earned an estimated $4 million from 600 theaters since Wednesday.

Netflix, which doesn’t report grosses, will debut the third installment on the streamer in December.

https://variety.com/2025/film/box-of...nd-1236595666/





November 28-30, 2025: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Zootopia 2 $156,000,000
2. Wicked: For Good $62,800,000 / $270,440,920
3. Now You See Me: Now You Don't $7,000,000 / $49,678,000
4. Predator: Badlands $4,800,000 / $85,040,607
5. The Running Man $3,700,000 / $34,235,275
6. Eternity $5,236,587
7. Rental Family $2,100,000 / $7,392,228
8. Hamnet $1,350,000
9. Sisu: Road to Revenge $810,000 / $4,125,179
10. Nuremberg $749,325 / $12,516,167

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Zootopia 2 Returns to No. 1 as Ella McCay Suffers One of Worst Debuts Ever for Disney with $2 Million
by Rebecca Rubin
Dec. 14, 2025


Disney is experiencing the highs and lows the box office has to offer. On one hand, the studio’s animated sequel Zootopia 2 returned to No. 1 in North America in its third weekend after sprinting past the $1 billion mark.

On the other, the political dramedy Ella McCay cratered with $2.1 million in its domestic debut, suffering one of the worst openings in modern times for Disney. Ella McCay, written and directed by James L. Brooks, landed behind already low projections of $4 million.




Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 slid to second place with $19.5 million, a brutal 70% drop from its scary-good $64 million debut. That’s rough, but not as bad as the original — which cratered by 76.2% in its second weekend while playing simultaneously on streaming.

Still, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 cost just $36 million and registers as an undisputed win for Blumhouse, having already grossed $95 million and $173 million globally after two weekends in theaters.




Wicked: For Good remained at No. 3 with $8.5 million in its fourth weekend of release, a 51% decline from its prior outing.

So far, Universal’s big-budget musical has earned $312 million domestically and $467 million globally.




Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet made $1.5 million from 749 venues. (That’s roughly $500,000 less than Ella McCay despite playing in a fraction of the number of theaters.)

So far, Hamnet has amassed $7 million to date.

https://variety.com/2025/film/box-of...ps-1236608380/





December 12-14, 2025: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Zootopia 2 $25,880,118 / $258,550,122
2. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 $19,394,300 / $95,375,315
3. Wicked: For Good $8,549,315 / $312,144,610
4. Dhurandhar $3,500,000 / $7,900,000
5. Now You See Me: Now You Don't $2,367,101 / $59,327,501
6. Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution $2,082,172 / $14,493,892
7. Ella McCay $2,020,541
8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (re-release) $1,909,860
9. Eternity $1,774,328 / $12,998,615
10. The Shining (re-release) $1,560,000