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Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Zootopia 2 lived up to the hype, generating a massive $556 million in global ticket sales across the extended Thanksgiving weekend (Nov. 26-30), including $156 million across North American screens.

The movie, featuring voice actors Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman and Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan, among others, was a big hit internationally, generating $400 million in revenue, including a record $272 million across Chinese screens.

“China has been trouble for American films during the last five years — very little has worked there — but the opening is breaking records. The film is on track to gross more money in China than in the U.S.,” analyst David A. Gross with industry newsletter FranchiseRE wrote in a post.

The original Zootopia opened March 4-6, 2016, to $75 million in North American revenue, en route to more than $1 billion at the global box office.

“The incredible response to Zootopia 2 reflects both its worldwide appeal and the remarkable work of our filmmakers and cast,” Alan Bergman, co-chairman at Disney Entertainment, said in a statement. “It’s a proud moment for Disney Animation and all of us at Disney, not to mention a great way to start the holiday season.”

Last weekend’s box office No. 1, Universal Pictures’ Wicked: For Good, added $93 million in second-weekend ticket sales, upping its 10-day North American tally to $270.4 million and $393.3 million overseas.

“Wicked 2 and Zootopia 2 are combining for a giant Thanksgiving box office — not record-breaking but still huge,” Gross wrote. “The lineup is similar to last year’s (Wicked and Moana 2), and it’s putting the last two Thanksgivings ahead of pre-pandemic Thanksgivings.”

A24’s afterlife romance Eternity, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner, bowed to an estimated $5.2 million over the extended weekend, including $3.1 million across the traditional three-day window.

Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, again starring Daniel Craig as the Southern detective Benoit Blanc, generated a reported $4 million across limited theatrical distribution — in line with the streamer’s legacy indifference to the theatrical window. The movie launches on Netflix Dec. 12.

“Netflix isn’t interested in box office,” wrote Gross. “This release is done for the filmmakers, who want to see their movie on the big screen.”

The analyst contends Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” franchise has been hurt by the director’s decision to exit Lionsgate and deliver two sequels to Netflix for a reported $450 million.

“Netflix doesn’t have the operation, expertise or leverage to mount a studio release — to get the right screens, fine-tune the media buy, roll out the social publicity, etc. It can’t be outsourced, so this is it,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, Lionsgate’s Now You See Me, Now You Don’t added $10 million in North American ticket sales, upping its global tally to $187 million worldwide, including $50 million domestically and $137.3 million overseas.

Paramount’s The Running Man, starring Glen Powell in a reboot of the 1987 original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, grossed an estimated $5.5 million over the extended holiday period. Of this total, the film earned about $3.7 million from Nov. 28-30. The movie added $1.1 million on Nov. 29 across 64 international markets with the total weekend gross of $3.1 million. The international total now stands at $26.3 million.

Regretting You grossed an estimated $705,000 from 741 locations over the extended holiday period, upping its global tally near $90 million, including near $50 million domestically.

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