Global 🌎
- Highest global animated opening of all time (current rates) at $556M ahead of China’s Ne Zha 2 ($431.22M)
- 4th highest global opening of all-time (actual reported) – Disney owns 3 of the top 4– after Avengers: Endgame ($1.2 billion), Avengers: Infinity War ($640.5M), and Spider-Man: No Way Home ($600.5M).
- Highest global debut of 2025 ahead of China’s Ne Zha 2 ($431.22M).
- Highest global opening for an animated sequel ever ahead of Moana 2‘s $389.3M – Disney owns top 5.
- Highest global opening ever for Walt Disney Animation Studios ahead of Moana 2.
- Highest global opening for any animated film in Disney history.
- Highest global sequel opening of 2025 and since 2021 (previous being Spider-Man: No Way Home)
- Biggest opening weekend increase from original to sequel for any animated franchise (239%).
- #1 movie globally, domestically, and internationally for the weekend
Domestic 🇺🇸🇨🇦
- 2nd highest Thanksgiving Day of all-time after Moana 2’s $225.4M.
- 2nd highest Thanksgiving opening ever (3-day & 5-day), behind only Moana 2 (3-day on that pic was $139.7M).
- 2nd highest Black Friday of all time at $38.5M after Moana 2‘s $54.3M.
- 2nd highest domestic Wednesday before Thanksgiving of all time at $39.5M after Moana 2’s $57.8M.
- 2nd highest preview gross for a WDAS sequel ($10.2M), behind only Moana 2 ($13.8M).
- 3rd highest 3-day domestic opening in WDAS history after Moana 2 ($139.7M), Frozen II ($130.2M).
- Disney holds 9 of top 10 Thanksgiving opening weekends of all time.
- Disney holds top 8 Thanksgiving opening weekends.
China 🇨🇳
- 6th highest opening of all-time in China amongst all films both local and non-local.
- 2nd best non-local film opening of all time in China (behind Avengers: Endgame).
- Highest animated opening of all-time in China for a non-local title.
- Already highest non-local film cume in China since Avengers: Endgame (2019).
- Already the highest non-local animated film of all-time after 5 days.
- 4th highest animated film of all-time both local and non-local after only 5 days.
- Already surpassed the total cume of Zootopia (RMB 1,530M) in 5 days.
- 9th highest single day gross (Day 4) of all-time for all films both local and foreign.
- Highest single day gross of all-time for an MPA film (Day 4, surpassing Avengers: Endgame).
- Highest MPA opening in 2025.
International 🌐
- 4th highest international opening of all-time (actual reported).
- Highest international animated opening of all time (MPA) (current rates, same suite of markets).
- Highest Walt Disney Animation Studios international opening of all time (current rates, same suite of markets).
- Highest Hollywood international opening of 2025.
- Opened #1/#1 MPA in all markets except for the UK and the Philippines.
- Highest Walt Disney Animation Studios opening of all-time in Poland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and Bolivia.
- Highest MPA opening weekend of 2025 in France, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Talent/Creative 🎬
- Highest opening for directors Byron Howard & Jared Bush (Bush now serves as Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios).
- Highest opening for stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman (for both besting the $75M domestic opening of Zootopia) and Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan (besting the $58M opening of Kung Fu Panda 4).
Zootopia 2 is gonna outgross every superhero movie this year and it’s not even in its’ second week yet.
Looks like the furry fandom came out in droves!
Went to a 9:45 PM showing (latest the cinema had) to avoid the kids as much as possible. There were about 30 or so people there, none of whom were kids, and we overheard multiple “obviously furry” conversations from the other attendees, so… yes, can confirm.
Movie was a great time. It’s just so incredibly joke- and reference-dense, but in fun-to-spot background ways that didn’t detract from the movie at all (unlike some movies where they’re all verbal jokes and it just feels incredibly forced). I imagine I could watch it another 2 or 3 times at least and notice more things each time, which is a lot of fun.
We saw it Saturday afternoon at a local theater that we go to quite often and I have never ever seen it that busy before. At my showing there were tons of kids.
Definitely agree on the movie being great. I almost want to go a second time to see the first 20 minutes that I missed while waiting in line for popcorn.
I like Zootopia quite a bit but I think saying it’s a furry movie is quite childish.
It’s not derogatory… and they didn’t call it a “furry movie”, they just pointed out that it’s got obvious appeal to furries which is… incredibly accurate.
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I saw it yesterday and there was not a single child in the theater. Granted, this was the English version in a German theater but it’s a city with people from all over the world, I would have expected at least a few. Would be interesting to see what the audience in the German and Ukrainian¹ language versions looks like but I’m not willing to buy two more tickets just to check.
¹ Yes, some German theaters started offering Ukrainian showings of some movies back in 2022 and at least the ones around here still have that for children’s movies.