{"id":348339,"date":"2025-12-14T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348339\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:32:07","slug":"disneys-zootopia-2-becomes-third-movie-of-2025-to-make-over-1-billion-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348339\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney’s Zootopia 2 Becomes Third Movie of 2025 to Make Over $1 Billion at the Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disney\u2019s animated blockbuster Zootopia 2<\/a> has overtaken the live-action Lilo & Stitch<\/a> movie to become the highest-grossing Hollywood release of 2025 and just the third film to make over $1 billion at the global box office.<\/p>\n

After three weekends, Zootopia 2 has now made $1.13 billion worldwide, with the majority of that money made internationally (specifically, in China). The domestic haul is now up to $259 million, and the international total is at an incredible $877.7 million. Lilo & Stitch ended its theatrical run earlier this year with $1.03 billion worldwide. But Zootopia 2 still has some way to go before it catches up with the biggest movie of 2025, Ne Zha 2<\/a>, which made an eye-watering $1.9 billion theatrically. Disney has now had five billion-dollar releases since 2013: Frozen; Frozen 2; Moana 2; Zootopia; and Zootopia 2.<\/p>\n

IGN’s Zootopia 2 review<\/a> returned an 8\/10. We said: “Zootopia 2 sends ZPD\u2019s first ever bunny-fox detective duo back onto the case of some of the weightiest issues we face as a society, and they brought all the animal puns with them.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, undeterred by a mauling from critics<\/a>, Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2<\/a> has made $174 million after two weekends in theaters. While the sequel seems unlikely to match its predecessor\u2019s $292 million global box office haul back in 2023, it\u2019s a clear hit for Blumhouse<\/a>, which, according to Variety<\/a>, spent just $36 million on the horror film. IGN\u2019s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 review<\/a> returned a 3\/10. We said: \u201cFive Nights at Freddy’s 2 gives sequels, video game adaptations, and gateway horror movies a bad name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wicked: For Good is now on $468 million globally (it looks like ending its theatrical run a decent way behind 2024\u2019s Wicked, which hit an impressive $758 million globally), Now You See Me, Now You Don’t is on $214 million, and The Running Man is up to $68 million (more here on The Running Man\u2019s box office stumble<\/a>). And finally, James L. Brooks\u2019 Ella McKay made just $2.1 million domestically during its opening weekend.<\/p>\n

As the year nears its end, one final blockbuster is set to hit theaters: James Cameron\u2019s Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>. It\u2019s another crucial release for Disney, which is reportedly releasing four different Avengers: Doomsday trailers to push fans into seeing it multiple times at theaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s animated blockbuster Zootopia 2 has overtaken the live-action Lilo & Stitch movie to become the highest-grossing Hollywood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-348339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}