{"id":345201,"date":"2025-12-14T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345201\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:38:07","slug":"zootopia-2-become-2025s-highest-grossing-movie-with-1-13-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345201\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Zootopia 2’ Become 2025’s Highest Grossing Movie With $1.13 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRabbits and foxes and snakes, oh my! \u201cZootopia 2<\/a>\u201d is officially the highest-grossing Hollywood release of the year. Disney\u2019s animal-packed animated sequel has earned a staggering $1.13 billion globally after 20 days of release, overtaking the haul of Disney\u2019s live-action \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d remake with $1.03 billion. A non-Motion Picture Association (MPA) film, China\u2019s animated blockbuster \u201cNe Zha 2,\u201d remains 2025\u2019s biggest release with $1.9 billion.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother Disney juggernaut, James Cameron\u2019s epic \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash,\u201d could contend for the 2025 crown \u2014 considering its predecessors were $2 billion-grossing sensations. However, the threequel opens on Dec. 19 and will likely earn the majority of its money in the following calendar year.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Friday, \u201cZootopia 2\u201d surpassed the $1 billion mark after 17 days in theaters, the quickest PG film to achieve the milestone<\/a>. The sequel stands as the seventh-biggest animated film in history, outpacing the original 2016\u2019s \u201cZootopia\u201d ($1.025 billion globally) and last year\u2019s \u201cMoana 2\u201d ($1.06 billion).<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the weekend, \u201cZootopia 2\u201d added a staggering $131.1 million from 52 territories in its third outing, boosting its overseas tally to $877 million. It\u2019ll soon become only the second animated movie in history to cross $1 billion at the international box office, following \u201cInside Out 2.\u201d The follow-up film has been particularly massive in China with $502 million and counting, ranking behind only 2019\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d ($632 million) as the largest MPA release in the country. Those ticket sales are notable because Chinese audiences haven\u2019t been receptive to Hollywood fare in years.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother Disney film, the James L. Brooks-directed \u201cElla McCay<\/a>,\u201d cemented the wrong kind of records for the studio over the weekend as the political dramedy flopped with $300,000 from five territories. That\u2019s not a wide international footprint, of course, but the PG-13 movie was also rejected in North America with $2.1 million, to rank as the lowest start in modern times for Disney. Globally, \u201cElla McCay\u201d has grossed a paltry $2.4 million against a $35 million budget. With weak reviews and poor audience scores, the film is unlikely to rebound in the coming weeks. Luckily, \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d is expected to end the studio\u2019s year on a high note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabbits and foxes and snakes, oh my! \u201cZootopia 2\u201d is officially the highest-grossing Hollywood release of the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,148032,75,337,61746],"class_list":{"0":"post-345201","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-ella-mccay","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-zootopia-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345201","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=345201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}