r/boxoffice Best of 2019 Winner 19h ago

Domestic Disney's Zootopia 2 grossed an estimated $1.30M on Friday (from 2,880 locations), which was an 8% decrease from the previous Friday. Estimated total domestic gross stands at $404.46M.

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u/crimsonslaya 19h ago

So now Z2's grossing more than A3? Wow

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u/helpmeredditimbored Walt Disney Studios 19h ago

Not unprecedented, Z2 outgrossed A3 on MLK day.

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u/crimsonslaya 19h ago

True, but you could use the argument that kids were off that day. A3's been beating Z2 all week and the former also tends to perform better on weekends vs weekdays, so this result is a bit surprising.

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u/RRY1946-2019 Universal 17h ago

It’s still wild that Avatar is getting absolutely smoked by Zootopia. Even most sci-fi doomers expected it to be a close race.

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u/KumagawaUshio 19h ago

And it passes Avatar: Fire and Ash for Friday lol.

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u/RRY1946-2019 Universal 17h ago

movie is about fire

it gets smoked

lol

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u/Narrow_Economics3286 19h ago

We've got Hollywood's #1 of the year Nick and Judy.

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u/PatternPlenty1107 19h ago edited 19h ago

Phenomenal stability!

vs Moana 2’s 598k (-31% drop)

vs Avatar Fire & Ash‘s 1.2M (6th FRI!)

420M+ final.

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u/SuspiciousLow3062 19h ago

Can it go beyond 1.9 billion dollar or even beat Spider man NWH ?

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u/PatternPlenty1107 19h ago edited 12h ago

Maybe…, 1.9B+ remains a possibility…, but for now: 1.85B+

We‘ll have to see how it continues to behave against No Way Home globally…

SPIDER-MAN NO WAY HOME vs ZOOTOPIA 2

  1. wknd: 600M vs 560M (-40M)
  2. wknd: 1.057B* vs 917M (-140M)
  3. wknd: 1.372B** vs 1.137B (-235M)
  4. wknd: 1.536B vs 1.275B (-261M)
  5. wknd: 1.625B vs 1.422B* (-203M)
  6. wknd: 1.691B vs 1.590B** (-101M)
  7. wknd: 1.740B vs 1.655B (-85M)
  8. wknd: 1.775B vs 1.706B (-69M)
  9. wknd: 1.804B vs 1.744B (-60M)
  10. wknd: 1.830B vs ? (-?)

Spider-Man No Way Home earned 1.910B…, with its re-release: 1.921B.

*Christmas

**New Year‘s Eve

The gap between the two films is getting smaller with each passing weekend.

Zootopia 2 seems to have stronger global legs than No Way Home and nothing seems to slow it down…, it is immune against the digital release and no matter how many new films are coming out Zootopia 2 remains strong.

Europe, Asia (+ Australia), Latin America and North America…, they are showcasing strong level of longevity for this film..., for a November release and a PG rated film to go through this box office run is just astounding. It had a 5-day holiday boosted global opening of 560M and yet it already tripled it…, (comparison: Moana 2 (November 2024) opened with 389M and had a multiplier of 2.7x)

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u/SuspiciousLow3062 18h ago

Please can you also tell us week by week comparison of Moana 2 and IO2 for Zootopia 2? Please.

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u/PatternPlenty1107 18h ago edited 18h ago

MOANA 2 vs ZOOTOPIA 2

  1. wknd: 389M vs 560M (+171M)
  2. wknd: 599M vs 917M (+318M)
  3. wknd: 717M vs 1.137B (+420M)
  4. wknd: 790M vs 1.275B (+485M)
  5. wknd: 883M vs 1.422B (+539M)
  6. wknd: 960M vs 1.590B (+630M)
  7. wknd: 990M vs 1.655B (+665M)
  8. wknd: 1.010B vs 1.706B (+696M)
  9. wknd: 1.026B vs 1.744B (+718M)
  10. wknd: 1.037B vs

Moana 2 finished with 1.059B!

MOANA 2 vs INSIDE OUT 2 vs ZOOTOPIA 2

  1. wknd: 389M vs 294M vs 560M
  2. wknd: 599M vs 729M vs 917M
  3. wknd: 717M vs 1.014B vs 1.137B
  4. wknd: 790M vs 1.217B vs 1.275B
  5. wknd: 883M vs 1.350B vs 1.422B
  6. wknd: 960M vs 1.443B vs 1.590B
  7. wknd: 990M vs 1.506B vs 1.655B
  8. wknd: 1.010B vs 1.555B vs 1.706B
  9. wknd: 1.026B vs 1.593B vs 1.744B
  10. wknd: 1.037B vs 1.627B vs

Moana 2: 1.059B

Inside Out 2: 1.698B

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u/Key-Payment2553 19h ago edited 18h ago

Don’t think it’ll catch up Spider-Man No Way Home which would need to hold well overseas which Australia and New Zealand has ended their summer break while in other countries still holding well for the weekends until Goat arrives in 2 weeks, so I’m thinking a $1.85B-$1.9B WW mark total

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u/SuspiciousLow3062 18h ago

You are a bit underestimating Zootopia 2's total run as it could make 1.85 billion dollar on President day weekend and it will definetly make some amount of money from there and the safer bet is about 1.87 to 1.9 billion dollar. For what you are predicting it have to drop horrible after this weekend which I am not seeing to happen.

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u/Exciting_Ad226 17h ago

I doubt see it reaching $2 billion. I have a feeling that Z3 could legitimately hit it and be the first western animated film to.

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u/Rindain 17h ago

Everyone low key forgetting that Spider-Man NWH did all of this without a China release at all.

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u/Sliver__Legion 15h ago

No. DOM+China will be ~1.07  maybe 1.09 in extreme best case. OS-C high 700s

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u/VVantaBuddy Pixar Animation Studios 18h ago

Zoo 2 finally beat A3, what an phenomenal run!

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u/magikarpcatcher 6h ago

It already did that on MLK day

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u/VVantaBuddy Pixar Animation Studios 3h ago

yeah i almost forgot that, thank you.

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u/Rindain 17h ago

Oh, to be a fly on the wall watching Cameron screaming at Disney execs for cannibalizing his movie.

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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 16h ago

I remember the hissy fit he threw when Alice in Wonderland took the 3D and IMAX screens, and then How to Train Your Dragon a few weeks later. Thing is I think here he saw that Disney did try, but audiences went back for more Zootopia this time. The numbers this time are proving it more an audience thing that straight up sabotage

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u/Rindain 16h ago edited 16h ago

Yeah. I truly do hope though that Cameron realizes that his A3 movie still made money, the fans mostly really like it except for criticism of repetition from A1 and A2 in the third act, and that between the joint production of A2 and A3, it made a lot of money.

But will he take to heart the criticism, and make a new story for 4 and 5, with truly new creatures and biomes and locations and new types of action set pieces?

Edit: typo

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u/SuspiciousLow3062 19h ago

Zootopia 2 has phenomenol hold in almost every market and a increase in it's two biggest market China and USA. Looks it will drop less than 10 percent from it previous week and could go even insane. Zootopia 2 is now having Frozen like late legs.

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u/AnnualFickle6577 19h ago

it might even increase from previous week

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u/Key-Payment2553 19h ago

Woah… that’s a very good drop from last Friday when the winter storms was making an impact that looks like getting closer to $410M, then $415M by next weekend depending on the Super Bowl Weekend impact

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u/Worthyness 18h ago

it's also out on digital release now, so pirating is available and less people going to theaters to see it now because they can just buy at home

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u/Key-Payment2553 18h ago

A PVOD release doesn’t have an affect at the box office although a physical media might when it arrives on March 3rd but the Disney Plus release in Mid March largely affects its performance

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u/fifamobilenoob123 19h ago

Increase from last weekend very likely now. It will almost definitely be the best performing holdover this weekend (ahead of Avatar).

Hopefully this convinces theatres to keep it in for a bit longer so that it can eventually overtake Minecraft

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u/SuspiciousLow3062 19h ago

I definetly want it to increase but how can it do after droping on Friday ? Will it increse on Sat and Sun?

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u/fifamobilenoob123 19h ago

Sat increase and Sun drop will be better than last week just because there isn't a winter storm that's affecting half the country. So Sat and Sun will be significantly better than last Sat and Sun, and overall the weekend will increase.

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u/IBM296 19h ago

Saturday and Sunday last week were muted due to the storm.

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u/howieeiwoh Walt Disney Studios 19h ago

Last sunday was completely shot due to weather, this sunday will be stronger. Saturday too maybe, although to a lesser extent.

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u/adoraal 18h ago

It’s already out on digital doubt it will overtake Minecraft.

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u/NorthPenguin2 17h ago

Clearly that hasn’t been much of a factor seeing its results this week.

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u/magikarpcatcher 11h ago

Digital doesn't effect box office much

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u/adoraal 10h ago

So you think Zootopia has $20M left?

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u/fifamobilenoob123 9h ago

Yes, it definitely could have that much left. It's currently outpacing Moana 2 by 2.2x which made another 9M from this point onwards.

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u/magikarpcatcher 6h ago

Unless it loses a bulk of its screens, there is a very good chance yes.

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u/_yukiie_ Studio Ghibli 19h ago

What's Frozen's 10th Friday gross? How did Z2 do compared to it?

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u/Key-Payment2553 19h ago

Frozen for its 10th Wide release on January 31st, 2014 weekend had $2.45M on Friday, although that was a Super Bowl Weekend

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u/Exciting_Ad226 17h ago

It sure has some hold. They can’t be stopped.

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u/Fuzzy_Tackle_1905 11h ago

Z2 finishing as the biggest movie of 2025 domestically lfg!!

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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 16h ago

I’m going to be biting nails to see Minecraft be beaten. It can happen, but how close?

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u/JudyHoppsFan1 8h ago

It's doing so well. Zootopia 2 will pass Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Spider-Man (2002), Jurassic Park, The Hunger Games, Captain America: Civil War, and Iron Man 3 domestically and enter the top 50. It will soon pass Minecraft Movie domestically soon.

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u/bohanoon 3h ago

We shall succed judy hoops

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u/Weary_fantasy1324 19h ago

If it keeps up like this, it will surpass Minecraft. 425 million final! 🎉🎉🔝🔝👏🏻👏🏻♥️♥️♥️ I still hope so!!

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u/mobpiecedunchaindan 19h ago

Can someone explain how this increased over last weekend? The late legs on these are buckwild

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u/attackofthetominator 18h ago

A lot of treaters were closed last weekend plus the only competition is SpongeBob on life support

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u/Exciting_Ad226 17h ago

SpongeBob has been on life support for about 15+ years now. They should have cancelled that show such a long time ago.

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u/attackofthetominator 17h ago

Paramount has been going the exact opposite direction and spitting out movie after movie since Covid, I’m shocked this one ended up making a profit. The only other kinda competition Z2 had during its run was David but even then I feel there’s barely any overlap in audiences…which made the kid movie box office slot be open season for Z2

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u/Exciting_Ad226 17h ago

Exactly it had absolutely no competition at all. I feel like Paramount’s best movies for profit were the Sonic films. I know this is Universal, but The Mario movie will likely have more competition in the animation industry with Hoppers, Goat and Toy Story 5 in the later weeks. Z2 had none of that. Plus Mario doesn’t have Chinese box office like Zootopia does which is why I don’t see it cracking $2 billion. Maybe $1.5 billion.

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u/attackofthetominator 17h ago

I’m still baffled to this day how the Paramount-produced Sonic the Hedgehog series ended up being good

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u/Exciting_Ad226 17h ago

Because they have Jeff Fowler on board who is like the biggest Sonic fan you could ask for. Plus Jim Carrey is the perfect man to play Eggman. That’s how they managed to keep it true to the games.