Let It Go, Elsa! ZOOTOPIA 2 Shatters Records As Walt Disney Animation’s Highest-Grossing Film Ever

Let It Go, Elsa! ZOOTOPIA 2 Shatters Records As Walt Disney Animation’s Highest-Grossing Film Ever

The Zootopia 2 stampede at the box office continues racing past the $1.46B mark, dethroning Frozen 2 in the process. The question now: can it overtake Pixar’s Inside Out 2?

By MarkJulian - Jan 01, 2026 05:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Disney
Source: Toonado.com

Zootopia 2 is still going strong at the box office and the latest feature film for the House of Mouse has broken a major box office record for Walt Disney Animation, despite the fact that it's impressive figures are still rising.

The film has now climbed to an impressive $1.46 billion worldwide, buoyed by a late holiday-season surge despite recently kicking off its sixth week in release.

Domestically, the sequel has earned $333.2 million in the U.S. and Canada, while international markets have contributed a massive $1.13 billion to its total.

China, in particular, has played a pivotal role in the film’s success, accounting for a staggering $563.1 million alone.

That performance has propelled Zootopia 2 past the previous Walt Disney Animation Studios record-holder, Frozen 2, which topped out at $1.45 billion globally.

However, it should be noted that Disney as a whole, has another award-winning animation studio in Pixar.

The studio's Inside Out 2 grossed $1.698 billion back in 2024 but most box office analysts are in agreement that Zootopia 2 is likely to also surpass this total.

With such a monumental box office total (which is still climbing) and with director Jared Bush now calling the shots at Walt Disney Animation Studios as its new Chief creative officer, reports indicate that the wait for Zootopia 3 should be much, much shorter.

It took nine years for the Zootopia sequel to hit theaters in late-2025 but reports indicated that Disney is looking to release Zootopia 3 in roughly 5-6 years.

"The wildest mystery in Zootopia hisssstory."

"In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Zootopia 2,” detectives Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootopia and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before."

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MonkeyBot
MonkeyBot - 1/1/2026, 5:52 PM
Stupid Furies.
MaxPaint
MaxPaint - 1/1/2026, 6:01 PM
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TheRevelation
TheRevelation - 1/2/2026, 9:44 AM
@MaxPaint - User Comment Image
CrimsonComet40
CrimsonComet40 - 1/1/2026, 6:00 PM
Is anyone starting to think that the Box Office is complete BS? I don't know anyone who went to see this or Avatar but they're apparently making a killing.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 1/1/2026, 6:05 PM
@CrimsonComet40 - 🤔 💭 mother[frick]ers... aka- Fathers. Kids are expensive as 💩. How many married people do you know that have younger kids?
JDL
JDL - 1/1/2026, 6:46 PM
@KennKathleen - It's way cheaper outside the big cities. Plus these movies aren't the sort that get premium screens.
dragon316
dragon316 - 1/1/2026, 6:51 PM
@CrimsonComet40 - I refuse see avatar it was boring series zootopia I will have saw but weather where I live
dragon316
dragon316 - 1/1/2026, 6:52 PM
@KennKathleen - I see people adults see kids movies without no kids with them there Disney fans who are single kid less
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 1/1/2026, 7:05 PM
@CrimsonComet40 - Of course, I personally don't know anybody who's seen these movies, thus it's not possible for them to be doing well in theaters.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 1/1/2026, 7:23 PM
@EskimoJ - I think people just aren't as hyped for anything anymore. Covid kinda diluted the overall importance of entertainment.

Top it off with the 💩 show that real world has become, along with fast food forms of laughs/info etc via social media, and people are unlikely to go on about movies as a top tier topic...
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 1/1/2026, 8:01 PM
@CrimsonComet40 - Do you know any parents with kids? If not, that explains it
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/2/2026, 8:40 AM
@CrimsonComet40 - So because you didn't go to the movie theater and your group of friends didn't go, you just assume that they're making things up? take your meds.
Rpendo
Rpendo - 1/2/2026, 9:50 AM
@CrimsonComet40 - I am a parent of a four year old and a six year old. Almost all of their friends have seen this movie.
Iports
Iports - 1/1/2026, 7:27 PM
I went to see it with the kids .. to be honest it was brilliant ! Really funny allot of adult jokes in it ! I can see how it’s done so well I enjoyed it more than avatar
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 1/1/2026, 7:42 PM
Ne Zha 2 still king of 2025 🥳
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/2/2026, 8:39 AM
Since History of Matt blocked me let me just say that the inflation argument is a waste of time because it always goes up, and the prices of things never come back down. Covid was the spike and these companies never lowered prices again. Now we have a clown running the office into the ground.

The usual suspects hate that Disney keeps printing money even though it's *wOkE* hahaha
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 1/1/2026, 8:01 PM
A this point, these "records" are just bullshit because of the insane inflation rate of the Biden Era. Our money is basically worthless compared to 1937 and the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves that year.

For anyone to take any of these declarations seriously, you really need to adjust for inflation, Mark.

The ACTUAL Top-10 highest grossing Disney movies:

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: $2.35B ADJ
2. Pinocchio
3. Fantasia
4. 101 Dalmations
5. The Jungle Book
6. The Lion King
7. Cinderella
8. Bambi
9. Sleeping Beauty
10. Aladdin
Nolanite
Nolanite - 1/1/2026, 8:43 PM
Disneys League of Superpets has made more money than Inside Out 2.

You forgot to add that in your article

Nolanite out
Repian
Repian - 1/1/2026, 9:42 PM
For Zootopia 3, I can imagine the city's criminal underworld, prey to a vigilante. A nighttime vigilante.

His prey includes Mr. Big's family (opossums), the Rattony family (rats), and others.
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The Owl also keeps an eye on Judy and Nick, Zootopia's top agents.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRp8DqBokacXQ_-FRaLdPRZrKXqIBnAWa-NKbQ32bvBA0uR_64g73lrvMk&s=10
Rpendo
Rpendo - 1/2/2026, 10:03 AM
Zootopia is woke slop.

I accidentally banged my toe on my dresser this morning.

My dresser is woke slop.

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