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With a worldwide total of $915 million at the time of writing, it is already the fourth-highest-grossing movie of 2025, Disney’s second-biggest release of the year (behind the Lilo & Stitch remake), and has been shooting past several other animated movies on the all-time charts. It’s comfortably inside the top 100 highest-grossing movies of all time globally, unadjusted for inflation, and has defeated every movie in one of the biggest animated franchises ever, which is also (now) Disney-owned and animal-centric, Ice Age. That itself is getting a sequel from Disney with 2027’s Ice Age: Boiling Point via 20th Century Studios.
| Movie | Year | Box Office (Worldwide) |
|---|---|---|
| Zootopia | 2016 | $1.025bn |
| Zootopia 2 | 2025 | $915m |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | 2009 | $886m |
| Ice Age: Continental Drift | 2012 | $877m |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | 2006 | $660m |
| Ice Age: Collision Course | 2016 | $408m |
| Ice Age | 2002 | $383m |
Zootopia 2 Is Destined For $1 Billion – And A Sequel
Zootopia 2 is well on course to defeat several other notable animated movies as well: Shrek 2 ($932m), Finding Nemo ($941m), and The Lion King ($979m) are very much within reach. Indeed, with just $85m needed, it’s all but guaranteed to break the $1 billion barrier at the box office. It’d be just the third movie to accomplish that this year, after Ne Zha 2 and Lilo & Stitch, and the 14th animated movie ever to hit that mark, which also includes the first Zootopia.
Assuming it does hit that $1bn milestone, then it’ll be the second consecutive Disney sequel to achieve it, as Moana 2 managed it last year – and it’s a trend that goes further back, since Frozen II also hit that mark (and if you include Pixar, then the likes of Inside Out 2, Toy Story 3 and 4, Incredibles 2, and Finding Dory all did it). While the Mouse House used to reserve sequels for the straight-to-DVD market back in the day, this highlights how much its shift in approach is working at the box office.
