Zootopia 2 passes Inside Out 2 as top Hollywood animated film

Walt Disney Co confirmed on Sunday that Zootopia 2 had collected about $1.7 billion worldwide, Wion News reported, passing Pixar's Inside Out 2 at $1.69 billion. TheWrap reported the same figure after the film's eighth weekend and said it ranks second on the all-time animation chart before inflation, behind China's Ne Zha 2. CBR put Ne Zha 2 at $2.15 billion.

The film sits ninth on the all-time global chart before inflation, behind Spider-Man: No Way Home at $1.92 billion, TheWrap reported. Among Hollywood animated releases, Disney holds the top three, and top four counting the CGI Lion King remake at $1.66 billion. Frozen 2 made $1.45 billion; Illumination's The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the highest non-Disney Hollywood animated film at $1.36 billion.

China drives the total

China is the largest overseas market. Wion News put its gross there at about $610 million. TheWrap put China at $619 million and said the film was on the threshold of passing Avengers: Endgame as the highest-grossing American release in the country. Koimoi, citing box office analyst Luiz Fernando, said Zootopia 2 had collected $657.8 million in China, beating Endgame's $632.1 million as the highest-grossing Hollywood film there.

The opening set the pace. Zootopia 2 took $271.6 million in China over its Wednesday-to-Sunday frame, the second-best non-local opening of all time there behind Endgame, Deadline reported. It also posted the highest single-day gross of all time for a studio film in China on its fourth day, again ahead of Endgame.

Deadline listed France at $14.6 million, Korea at $13.7 million and Mexico at $10.4 million as the next-largest markets. In Latin America the film took $27 million for an 80% market share across the region. It opened at No. 1 in every market except the UK and the Philippines. Deadline cautioned that China was not all of a sudden a reliable market.

Record opening and $1 billion

Zootopia 2 opened on 26 November 2025 and made an estimated $556.4 million worldwide through Sunday 30 November, the biggest global launch of any film in 2025, Deadline reported. ABC7 and The Hollywood Reporter put the five-day figure at $559.5 million. The international portion was $400.4 million, with the domestic five-day figure estimated at $156 million. The global opening ran 239% ahead of the original Zootopia. It ranked as the fourth-biggest global opening of all time and the biggest animated opening ever, Disney said in a press release.

The billion-dollar mark fell in 17 days. That was the shortest time among all animated MPA releases and all PG-rated films, ABC7 reported. The Hollywood Reporter put the same 17-day mark against roughly $1.08 billion worldwide at that point. The five-day domestic figure was the second-biggest Thanksgiving opening of all time, behind Moana 2's $225.4 million.

Disney Animation's record

Zootopia 2 is the first back-to-back billion-dollar release for Walt Disney Animation Studios, following Moana 2. The studio now counts five billion-dollar titles since 2013 across the Frozen, Moana and Zootopia series, the Hollywood Reporter reported. CBR reported a $1.46 billion global gross at that stage, just above Frozen 2's $1.45 billion, making it the studio's highest-grossing film.

The domestic picture is weaker. Zootopia 2 is set to finish about $200 million below Inside Out 2, which made just under $653 million in North America in summer 2024, TheWrap reported. TheWrap said it will finish as Hollywood's highest-grossing film of 2025, ahead of Avatar: Fire and Ash. It has passed $400 million domestically and should hit $423 million, which would pass A Minecraft Movie and the Lilo & Stitch remake for the top domestic spot among 2025 releases.

Reviews and release

CBR reported a 90% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 96% Popcornmeter rating. Zootopia 2 is still in theaters and will eventually stream on Disney+.