'Zootopia 2' is now the highest-grossing U.S. animated movie of all time

Walt Disney Co.’s “Zootopia 2” is present the highest-grossing U.S. animated movie of each time, the institution said Sunday.

The animated sequel to 2016’s “Zootopia” raked successful $1.7 cardinal successful worldwide container bureau gross arsenic of Sunday. The movie edges retired the erstwhile grounds holder, “Inside Out 2.” The 2024 Disney and Pixar deed grossed $1.69 billion.

Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Alan Bergman noted the film’s planetary entreaty successful a connection Sunday astir the caller record.

“This milestone belongs archetypal and foremost to the fans astir the satellite whose enthusiasm made it possible,” helium said successful the statement.

The movie has earned the bulk of its wealth overseas, with an planetary container bureau full of $1.31 billion. In the U.S. and Canada, “Zootopia 2” has made $390 million.

The movie’s largest planetary haul has travel from China, wherever “Zootopia 2” grossed $610 cardinal frankincense far.

The archetypal “Zootopia” was a astonishment deed successful China, wherever audiences connected with rabbit bull Judy Hopps’ storyline of moving from a tiny agrarian colony to the large city, arsenic good arsenic the unconventional narration betwixt Judy and her spouse Nick Wilde, a fox, Disney executives person said.

Disney past built connected that popularity by opening a “Zootopia”-themed onshore successful Shanghai Disneyland — the lone specified themed country successful immoderate Disney park.

But the lukewarm effect successful China was not a given.

A decennary ago, Hollywood blockbusters that got authorities support could number connected the China marketplace to boost their planetary container bureau totals.

But since the COVID-19 pandemic, the caller geopolitical tensions betwixt the U.S. and China and the maturation of the section movie industry, that benignant of reception has been overmuch much unreliable.

The past Disney movie that was released successful China and earned much than $100 cardinal was 2024’s “Alien: Romulus.”