Disney Strikes Again: Zootopia 2 Roars to a Record $556 Million Opening, Poised for Another Billion Just Six Months After Lilo and Stitch

Disney is on a tear. After the live-action Lilo and Stitch remake made waves earlier this year, Zootopia 2 just showed up and started breaking records like it was nothing. If you were wondering whether this was another billion-dollar play for the studio, the early numbers basically answer that for you.

A monster opening, by the numbers

• Global opening weekend: $556 million over Thanksgiving, after the November 26 release.
• Highest global animated opening ever.
• Highest global opening of 2025 so far.
• Fourth-highest opening weekend of all time, behind Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
• Biggest global opening for a sequel since No Way Home in 2021.
• Opened bigger than Ne Zha 2, which currently holds the crown for highest-grossing animated movie ever.
• For perspective: the first Zootopia opened to $75 million back in 2016. So yeah, that escalated quickly.

That $556 million number is wild for an animated movie. It is the kind of launch that basically guarantees you will be hearing about this one in the year-end totals.

Who is back, who is new, and what they are chasing

Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin are back as Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps. They are officially partners at the Zootopia Police Department now, which sounds great until they have to go on the run to investigate a new threat: a mysterious snake named Gary De'Snake, voiced by Ke Huy Quan. New faces in the booth include Andy Samberg, Quinta Brunson, and Danny Trejo, which is a fun mix for a sequel that is clearly going bigger.

Zootopia 2 is out now in theaters. If you were waiting to see whether it would be a hit, consider that part settled.