Disney’s “Zootopia 2” follows detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde discover themselves on the twisting path of a mysterious reptile who turns the mammal metropolis of Zootopia the other way up.
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The Thanksgiving field workplace had sufficient tasty choices to ship the most effective vacation performances ever.
Led by Disney’s “Zootopia 2,” which collected an estimated $156 million, the five-day Thanksgiving weekend secured round $294 million. That determine will not be finalized till Monday, when all of Sunday’s ticket gross sales are calculated, however would characterize both the third or fourth finest Thanksgiving haul of all time.
The fourth-highest Thanksgiving vacation field workplace is presently $291.3 million, which was generated in 2012 whereas the third-highest is 2013’s $294.2 million haul, in line with information from Comscore.
Whereas the 2025 Thanksgiving interval on the field workplace was smaller than each 2018’s $315.6 million haul and 2024’s record-breaking $424.9 million, it nonetheless set information.
IMAX reported its finest five-day Thanksgiving vacation weekend ever with $40.8 million in world ticket gross sales, 70% larger than the earlier report set throughout the identical body in 2024.
“‘Zootopia 2’ and ‘Depraved: For Good’ delivered an outstanding one-two punch for the Thanksgiving vacation — hitting the candy spot for household audiences and sending our world field workplace hovering nicely previous expectations,” Wealthy Gelfond, CEO of IMAX, stated in a press release Sunday.
Disney, too, hit a number of benchmarks.
Largest animated field workplace ever
“Zootopia 2” had the very best world opening of an animated film of all time, with an estimated haul of $556 million. It’s the fourth-highest world opening of all time, the corporate reported.
“A staggering world outcome for ‘Zootopia 2’ because the Disney model coupled with a PG-rated household movie extravaganza and a beloved unique installment powered the movie to over a half a billion {dollars} worldwide,” stated Paul Dergarabedian, head of market developments at Comscore, advised CNBC. “This movie actually cracked the code on what household audiences world wide [are] in search of when venturing out to cinemas.”
Moreover, the animated sequel posted the second-highest Thanksgiving day and Thanksgiving opening for each the five-day and three-day durations. The present report holder is 2024’s “Moana 2” which tallied $221 million for the five-day Thanksgiving interval and $135.5 million for the three-day.
Common’s “Depraved: For Good” added an estimated $93 million to the home field workplace throughout the five-day Thanksgiving interval, smaller than the $118 million “Depraved” picked up throughout the identical interval in 2024.
Nonetheless, field workplace consultants anticipated “Depraved: For Good” and “Zootopia 2” to proceed to snap up ticket gross sales within the weeks earlier than Christmas and forward of the discharge of Disney’s “Avatar: Hearth and Ash.”
“This vacation weekend now units the stage for a stable remaining residence stretch of the field workplace 12 months and with an excellent assortment of movies on the way in which, together with notable blockbusters and awards contenders … it is a welcome outcome within the wake of what has been a really tumultuous post-summer season for the business,” Dergarabedian stated.
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