Disney’s feel-good animated sequel Zootopia 2 led the Thanksgiving box office in North America, earning $156 million over the five-day holiday weekend, industry estimates showed Sunday.
The buddy-cop comedy features a menagerie of talking animals tackling stereotypes and is the highly anticipated follow-up to the 2016 hit, which won the Oscar for best animated feature. Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, and Idris Elba all reprise their roles.
Globally, Zootopia 2 has earned $556 million, marking the biggest worldwide launch ever for an animated film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In second place with $93 million was Wicked: For Good, Universal’s continuation of the musical saga of Oz’s most notable witches—the green-skinned outcast Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and the popular pink-clad Glinda (Ariana Grande). The film is based on the long-running Broadway musical, which is itself adapted from Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel.
Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, the third installment in the crime-heist franchise, took third place with $10 million in the U.S. and Canada, Exhibitor Relations reported. The film reunites Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, and Woody Harrelson as Robin Hood-style illusionists targeting dangerous criminals.
Predator: Badlands, the latest entry in the decades-old sci-fi horror franchise, earned $6.6 million, placing fourth. Paramount’s The Running Man, a new adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian novel about a deadly game show starring Glen Powell, finished fifth with $5.5 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were Eternity with $5.2 million, Rental Family at $3.1 million, Nuremberg with $1.1 million, Sisu: Road to Revenge at $1 million, and Regretting You, which earned $705,000.
