{"id":139452,"date":"2026-01-18T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139452\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:04:09","slug":"zootopia-2-is-the-highest-grossing-u-s-animated-movie-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139452\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Zootopia 2’ is the highest-grossing U.S. animated movie of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Walt Disney Co.\u2019s \u201cZootopia 2\u201d is now the highest-grossing U.S. animated film of all time, the company said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The animated sequel to 2016\u2019s \u201cZootopia\u201d raked in $1.7 billion in worldwide box office revenue as of Sunday. The movie edges out the previous record holder,<\/a> \u201cInside Out 2.\u201d The 2024 Disney and Pixar hit grossed $1.69 billion.<\/p>\n

Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Alan Bergman noted the film\u2019s international appeal in a statement Sunday about the new record.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis milestone belongs first and foremost to the fans around the world whose enthusiasm made it possible,\u201d he said in the statement.<\/p>\n

The film has earned the bulk of its money overseas, with an international box office total of $1.31 billion. In the U.S. and Canada, \u201cZootopia 2\u201d has made $390 million.<\/p>\n

The movie\u2019s largest international haul has come from China, where \u201cZootopia 2\u201d grossed $610 million thus far.<\/p>\n

The first \u201cZootopia\u201d was a surprise hit in China<\/a>, where audiences connected with rabbit cop Judy Hopps\u2019 storyline of moving from a small rural village to the big city, as well as the unconventional relationship between Judy and her partner Nick Wilde, a fox, Disney executives have said.<\/p>\n

Disney then built on that popularity by opening a \u201cZootopia\u201d-themed land in Shanghai Disneyland \u2014 the only such themed area in any Disney park.<\/p>\n

But the warm response in China was not a given.<\/p>\n

A decade ago, Hollywood blockbusters that got government approval could count on the China market to boost their international box office totals.<\/p>\n

But since the COVID-19 pandemic, the recent geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China and the growth of the local film industry, that kind of reception has been much more unreliable.<\/p>\n

The last Disney film that was released in China and earned more than $100 million was 2024\u2019s \u201cAlien: Romulus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walt Disney Co.\u2019s \u201cZootopia 2\u201d is now the highest-grossing U.S. animated film of all time, the company said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3573,3588,1924,11592,70621,70623,48,52,51,63805,47,50,49,4287,70625,70624,70622,315,70626,56590],"class_list":["post-139452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-china","tag-disney","tag-film","tag-fox","tag-highest-grossing-u-s","tag-international-box-office-total","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-local-film-industry","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-movie","tag-partner-nick-wilde","tag-rabbit-cop-judy-hopps","tag-statement-sunday","tag-time","tag-unconventional-relationship","tag-zootopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}