‘Zootopia 2’ Has Officially Become Disney’s Second Billion Dollar Movie of the Year!!

In just 17 days of release, Disney‘s Zootopia 2 passed the coveted $1 billion mark at the global box office. This makes it only the second Hollywood film of the year to achieve this goal, after Disney‘s own Lilo & Stitch remake. The only other movie to have passed the $1 billion mark this year, China’s Ne Zha 2, was also able to pass the $2 billion milestone. Zootopia 2 broke several box office records in China, having made over $270 million across its five-day debut in the Middle Kingdom; the film’s current China haul stands at around $450 million — this is remarkable, considering how hit-and-miss Hollywood titles have been in the Middle Kingdom recently. The movie is on the verge of entering the list of the top 10 highest-grossing animated movies of all time, having recently overtaken the original The Lion King.

Zootopia 2 has also passed several hit franchise films during the course of its run, including nearly every installment of the Harry Potter series, several Marvel Cinematic Universe titles, and a bunch of Pixar hits. It has also overtaken almost every entry in Peter Jackson‘s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit series, with the latest being arguably the least-liked of them all, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.

Released in 2014, The Battle of the Five Armies served as the final film in Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, which was already seen as inferior to his Lord of the Rings series. The movie was produced on a reported budget of $250 million, grossing a little over $960 million at the global box office. It marginally outpaced its predecessor, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which made a little over $950 million, but fell short of the trilogy’s opening installment, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which made it past the $1 billion mark. Each of the three Hobbit movies earned moderately positive reviews, but The Battle of the Five Armies remains the lowest-rated on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. It currently holds a 59% score on the platform, where the critics’ consensus reads, “Though somewhat overwhelmed by its own spectacle, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies ends Peter Jackson’s second Middle-earth trilogy on a reasonably satisfying note.”

‘Zootopia 2’ Is Set To Overtake Several More Blockbusters

By comparison, all three movies in the Lord of the Rings trilogy were critically acclaimed, with the third installment — The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — famously sweeping the Oscars and grossing over $1 billion. Zootopia 2 is on track to overtake its predecessor, which was released nearly a decade ago, and will soon also surpass the lifetime global box office hauls of every Christopher Nolan movie, including Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises. The highest-grossing animated movie from America remains Inside Out 2, which made $1.7 billion last year.