GREAT MYSTERY — Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Zootopia 2” welcomes back to the big screen rookie cops Judy Hopps (voice of Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voice of Jason Bateman). When a snake called Gary De’Snake (voice of Ke Huy Quan) arrives on the scene, he kicks off a great mystery—but Nick and Judy are on the case. From the Oscar-winning team of Disney Animation chief creative officer Jared Bush and Byron Howard (directors) and Yvett Merino (producer), “Zootopia 2” releases in theaters Nov. 26. © 2025 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Key Takeaways
Total 3-Day Weekend Gross:
$75,121,421 | -51.2% Last Week / -20.3% Weekend 50, 2024
Theaters endured a slow pre-holiday frame that lagged behind both last week and year-over-year when Moana 2 held a similar sway to Zootopia 2, the latter of which has now climbed back to the #1 spot and over $1B globally. While 2024’s Frame 50 had weak newcomers in Kraven the Hunter ($11M) and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim ($4.55M), this year’s Ella McCay ($2.1M) and Cineverse’s Silent Night, Deadly Night remake ($1.1M) are a far sight worse. Right now everyone is holding steady until the big bonanza next frame, which is certain to overtake the same overall from Frame 51 last year ($142.28M)… perhaps with Avatar alone.
Top Title: Zootopia 2 (Disney) | $26.3M / 3,835 Screens / $6,858 PSA | Week 3
Top Opener: Ella McCay (20th Century) | $2.1M / 2500 Screens / $840 PSA | Week 1
Best PSA: Rosemead (Vertical) | $29.1K / 1 Screen / $29,118 PSA | Week 2
1. Zootopia 2
Walt Disney Pictures | Week 3
$26.3M 3-Day Weekend | $258.97M Domestic Total
$1.13B Global Total
Walt Disney Pictures’ Zootopia 2 shot back up to #1 with $26.3M from 3,835 screens for a $6,858 PSA, falling only -39% in its third frame (vs -48% for Moana 2’s third weekend). This brings the domestic total to $258.97M, compared to $209.3M for the 2016 original 19-days in, maintaining the #9 spot in Top 10 for the year behind/soon-to-overtake How to Train Your Dragon ($262.95M). The weekend gross is just a hair shy of our prediction panel’s low-end estimate ($27M), although we accurately predicted the film’s win over last week’s champ Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.
Here’s how the 3-Day looked…
Friday – $6.2M
Saturday – $11.7M
Sunday – $8.4M
While the picture continues to do well in North America, the overseas tally is in a whole other realm of success with $877.7M earned so far in 52 material territories ($131.1M this frame alone). An estimated $5.2M of that came from global IMAX screens, bringing the movie’s total in the format to $56.6M.
Much of this foreign money is thanks to the China take of $502.4M, which may eventually surpass Avengers: Endgame ($557.69M) as the #1 MPA title in that territory. The performance also bodes well for the studio’s third Avatar movie in the Middle Kingdom next week. Overall, Zootopia 2 has now crossed the billion landmark with $1.136B, also surpassing the original’s $1B lifetime total.
Other Notable Performances
Universal and Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 dropped -70% to #2 in its second frame for a $19.5M take, bringing the domestic total to $95.48M. This is on par with the first movie’s $19M Frame 2 (-76%), although it had made $113.2M by that point. As we explained on Wednesday, this movie showed all signs of being front-loaded, which it was, having a predominantly younger audience that showed up in droves for Week 1, then moved on. Overseas Freddy’s 2 made $19.1M from 78 territories, on pace with domestic, bringing the international total to $78.3M for an overall $173.79M global haul, more than halfway towards the first movie’s nearly $300M WW bank.
Disney’s 20th Century Studios wide released the political family dramedy Ella McCay into 2,500 locations where it pulled in only $2.1M ($840 PSA), opening, as predicted, outside the Top 5 at #6. Ticket buyers were largely Caucasian (68%), female (58%), and older (34% in the 55+ age bracket, 21% in the 45-54 age bracket). Hailing from Oscar-winner James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, As Good as it Gets), his new film needed excellent word-of-mouth to break through to an audience accustomed to getting pictures of this ilk through streamers. It failed hard on that front, with 22% critical and 55% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, a “B-” CinemaScore, and 2 stars via PostTrak. This is worse than his last picture, 2010’s How Do You Know?, which debuted to $7.48M in the same December slot on the same number of screens, although that had the benefit of an all-star cast including Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, and Jack Nicholson. Overseas was humdrum, with $0.3M from 5 material territories for a $2.4M global total. Although he has remained active as a writer/producer, Brooks had not directed a film in the 15 years since his disastrous How Do You Know? ($30.2M domestic/$120M budget). The fact that Disney put big resources behind a not-at-all-sure-bet, in a marketplace that has been unkind to the dramedies that are Brooks’ bread and butter, makes one wonder if it played a part in getting the go-ahead for the next Simpsons movie, which Brooks’ Gracie Films is producing for summer 2027.
Next Weekend
The following frame will be the big blowout weekend theaters have been waiting for. 20th Century/Disney are delivering their likely next billion dollar tentpole with James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire & Ash, the third film in the vaunted franchise which has delivered $2B+ blockbusters two-times-over. Also on tap for counter-programming is Paramount’s The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, another colorfully fun splash of wackiness in a TV-to-film franchise that has brought in nearly half-a-billion over three movies. Also competing for the family dollar is Angel Studios’ Old Testament musical David, riding the coattails of the studios’ previous animated hit The King of Kings ($79.2M WW) this past Easter. For more dramatic titles, Lionsgate is giving us the battle of the blondes (Sidney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried) in Paul Feig’s thriller The Housemaid, while Searchlight launches the limited release of director Bradley Cooper’s well-reviewed comedy-drama Is This Thing On? starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern.
Sunday Studio Estimates | Weekend 50 – 2025
Total 3-Day Domestic Gross: $75,121,421 | (-20.3% vs 2024)
Title
Weekend Estimate
% Change
Locations
Location Change
PSA
Domestic Total
Week
Distributor
Zootopia 2
$26,300,000
-39%
3,835
-165
$6,858
258,970,004
3
Walt Disney
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
$19,500,000
-70%
3,579
167
$5,448
95,481,000
2
Universal
Wicked: For Good
$8,550,000
-51%
3,480
-505
$2,457
312,145,000
4
Universal
Dhurandhar
$3,500,000
65%
377
-13
$9,284
7,819,000
2
Yash Raj Films
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
$2,380,000
-32%
2,411
-218
$987
59,340,400
5
Lionsgate
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution
$2,102,000
-79%
1,900
67
$1,106
14,513,720
2
GKIDS
Ella McCay
$2,100,000
2,500
$840
2,100,000
1
20th Century…
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
$1,850,000
2,250
$822
264,276,000
1,309
Universal
Eternity
$1,774,328
-35%
2,067
-319
$858
12,998,616
3
A24
Hamnet
$1,490,000
-36%
749
5
$1,989
7,004,510
3
Focus Features
Silent Night, Deadly Night
$1,120,000
1,640
$683
1,120,000
1
Iconic Relea…
Predator: Badlands
$1,000,000
-46%
1,265
-815
$791
90,023,799
6
20th Century…
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
$810,000
-76%
1,204
6
$673
5,469,207
2
Lionsgate
One Battle After Another
$450,000
#ERROR!
572
541
$787
71,162,000
12
Warner Bros.
The Running Man
$430,000
-64%
893
-656
$482
37,606,000
5
Paramount Pi…
Nuremberg
$335,000
-3%
588
247
$570
13,753,000
6
Sony Picture…
Sentimental Value
$240,100
-20%
241
-93
$996
3,365,957
6
Neon
The Secret Agent
$234,048
117%
43
35
$5,443
487,880
3
Neon
Rental Family
$213,000
-65%
315
-690
$676
9,610,290
4
Searchlight …
Merrily We Roll Along
$190,000
-85%
330
-754
$576
2,180,000
2
Sony Picture…
Fackham Hall
$92,340
-85%
335
-777
$276
987,966
2
Bleecker Street
Resurrection
$64,200
3
$21,400
64,200
1
Janus Films
Bugonia
$45,000
-47%
46
-24
$978
17,663,000
8
Focus Features
It Was Just an Accident
$33,400
-5%
38
n/c
$879
1,523,354
9
Neon
Rosemead
$29,118
-42%
1
n/c
$29,118
88,240
2
Vertical Ent…
Rebuilding
$28,193
262%
181
154
$156
130,385
5
Bleecker Street
Regretting You
$28,000
-75%
243
-48
$115
48,835,000
8
Paramount Pi…
La grazia
$27,804
117%
42
41
$662
45,370
2
MUBI
Atropia
$9,031
1
$9,031
9,031
1
VRC
You Got Gold A Celebration of John Prine
6,155
6
$1,026
45,182
3
Abramorama F…
The Tale of Silyan
$6,051
10%
19
14
$318
25,896
3
Picturehouse
The King of Color
$4,930
2
$2,465
4,930
1
Picturehouse
CatVideoFest 2025
4,446
2
$2,223
1,066,592
20
Oscilloscope…
Mistress Dispeller
1,809
-54%
7
n/c
$258
$84,458
8
Oscilloscope…