Disney’s Zootopia 2 has made waves in Hollywood, with the buddy cop sequel becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time, with an impressive US$1.703 billion worldwide haul. On the flipside, horror sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple struggled to make a similar impact, scraping by with a lukewarm US$31.2 million opening weekend haul.
As reported by Deadline, Zootopia 2 achieved this milestone after its eighth weekend, surpassing Disney’s previous reigning champion, 2024’s Inside Out 2 (US$1.69B). The sequel, which continues the adventure of Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) as they pursue reptile Gary De’Snake (Ke Huy Quan) across Zootopia, is also the ninth highest-grossing movie ever at the global box office, beating out 2019’s The Lion King (US$1.663B) and 2015’s Jurassic World ($1.672B). Outside of Hollywood, however, China’s Ne Zha 2 remains the highest-earning animated movie of all time with a worldwide gross of US$2.2 billion.
Sony was also betting on a sequel of its own this box office weekend, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, although the film failed to make an impact with its US$31.2 million debut. In comparison, its predecessor, 28 Years Later, which came out a little more than half a year ago, opened with US$30 million in the United States alone, garnering the highest earnings in franchise record by its second weekend.
The sequel, which stars a returning cast of Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, and Alfie Williams as Dr. Ian Kelson, Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, and Spike, respectively, was shot back-to-back with its predecessor and focuses on Dr. Kelson as he embarks on a quest to discover the true nature of the Rage Virus and the infected.
Elsewhere at the box office, Disney’s other money-maker, James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, continues to rake in the cash with a new US$1.319 billion worldwide haul after five weekends. Despite its impressive performance so far, the threequel still hasn’t quite reached the heights of its two predecessors, falling short of 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water’s US$2.3 billion and still nowhere near the US$2.9 billion of the 2009 original.
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