{"id":266040,"date":"2025-11-06T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266040\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:02:08","slug":"zootopia-2-eyes-125m-thanksgiving-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266040\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Zootopia 2’ Eyes $125M+ Thanksgiving Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHollywood can look forward to Thanksgiving box office history repeating itself with a robust Wednesday-Sunday opening expected from Disney<\/a>\u2018s Zootopia 2<\/a> with $125M-plus. That result could make the sequel to the 2016 Disney original animation title the second highest opening ever over the Thanksgiving box office behind last year\u2019s Moana 2 ($225.4M) and possibly ahead of 2019\u2019s Frozen 2 ($125M grossed over its 5-day Thanksgiving period, the pic\u2019s second frame). <\/p>\n

\n\tDisney owns nine of the top ten Thanksgiving 5-day openings. <\/p>\n

\n\tPresales we understand are in line with Pixar\u2019s Inside Out 2, which opened to $154.2M over three-days in June 2024. Zootopia 2 is strong across the board with males under 25 leading in first choice, and females under 25 leading in unaided, but males under 25 and women over 25 are strong as well. <\/p>\n

\n\tTogether with Universal\u2019s Wicked: For Good, which will open in the pre-Thanksgiving weekend to around the same as the first with $112.5M (the highest ever for a feature take of a Broadway musical), the hope is that the overall Wednesday-Sunday holiday stretch will be robust enough for both studios and exhibition after a post Labor Day period that has fallen behind 2024\u2019s. Last year\u2019s trio of Wicked, Moana 2 and Paramount\u2019s Gladiator II fueled a record Thanksgiving five-day for all titles of $420M. It would take an overdriving performance by both Zootopia 2 and Wicked: For Good to get there. In addition the big question mark is what male adult IP fills the void of Gladiator II? That Ridley Scott directed sequel opened to $55M in the pre-Thanksgiving slot and posted a Thanksgiving 5-day of $44.2M, ending its ten-day total at $111.4M. Can Paramount\u2019s Running Man and Lionsgate\u2019s Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t fill that gap? Both male-skewing titles open on Nov. 14. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Jared Bush and Bryon Howard directed sequel, brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers. The original 2016 movie set in a city of anthropomorphic animals who are contending with their differences, won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature and opened to $75M stateside, and ending its run at $341.2M domestic, $1 billion global. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood can look forward to Thanksgiving box office history repeating itself with a robust Wednesday-Sunday opening expected from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,3494,75,337,61746],"class_list":{"0":"post-266040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-disney","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-zootopia-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}