The bunnies of “Zootopia” just hopped over the $1 billion global mark at the box office, TheWrap reports. It’s also only the 4th animation of all time to do it. The movie has earned $662.8 million internationally, which represents roughly two-thirds of its worldwide take. For a few weeks there it looked like it wouldn’t happen, but in the end Japan got it over the line. With Zootopia arriving on Blu-ray and DVD this week, it doesn’t seem that it will make much more as its theatrical run comes to a close. In China, Zootopia is the highest grossing animated film of all time and Disney’s biggest release ever there, while in Russian Federation it is the second biggest industry release ever behind only Avatar. Unlike Captain America: Civil War, however, Zootopia is an entirely original property not supported by innumerable movie tie-ins and decades of comics, making its achievement even more extraordinary.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios’ ZOOTOPIA crossed the $1 billion dollar mark yesterday, BECOMING Disney’s second billion-dollar release of 2016 and its 11th ever.
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Pixar’s Finding Dory releases the week of June 17, with Universal’s The Secret Life of Pets, Fox’s Ice Age: Collision Course and Trolls, and another Disney production in Moana to follow over the rest of the year. The one that’s not Disney is Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s Minions, which made it to $1.159 billion previous year. Overall, the film is now the 10th most successful animation release at the United States box office.
