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Posted on 11/30/2025 5:39:11 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Disney's "Zootopia 2" tallied an estimated $156 million domestically over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Universal's "Wicked: For Good" added around $93 million to the domestic box office haul during the five-day frame.
The total Thanksgiving box office is expected to post a top five performance of close to $300 million. Final results will be calculated Monday.
"Zootopia 2" had the highest global opening of an animated movie of all time, with an estimated haul of $556 million. It is the fourth-highest global opening of all time, the company reported.
"This holiday weekend now sets the stage for a solid final home stretch of the box office year and with a great assortment of films on the way, including notable blockbusters and awards contenders ...
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Really, Zootopia the original movie is a very good movie. This sequel took what, two or three years to make?
It’s funny, I was just watching a youtube video about how Disney’s ghost is around in Disneyland.
Paranormal-wise that is.
I sure enjoyed the first Zootopia.
Given some of their recent movies, it doesn’t take too much to imagine Walt being unable to sleep peacefully in his grave.
“The studio remade his beloved children’s classic and turned it into a complete s***show. Now he’s back, from beyond the grave.”
“SNOW WHITE / BLOOD RED”
“The Vengeance of Disney”
The link isn’t working for me. After Zootopia 2, what are the other top movies?
At this point, I will cheer for anything that brings people into the theaters. We need to keep the theaters alive, or a rapidly consolidating clique of global streamers will completely control distribution and, pushing upstream, dominate what is produced even more than they do today.
The streaming model has the industry in a qualitative death spiral. Theatrical distribution, ticket sales and butts in seats create space for independent films to find an audience. I probably won’t watch the flying spandex, comic book and animated movies, but they keep the doors open, and the little indie movies can find screens down the hall.
Zootopia 2 $96.8M
Wicked: For Good $62.8M
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t $7.0M
Predator: Badlands $4.8M
The Running Man $3.7M
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/
But it is probably one of the more thoughtful movies I have seen in sometime about a real and growing problem in the world. People need family. What happens when for some reason or another you don't have one?
It is not a preachy movie or one with a "message" (much less The MESSAGE) but does present a solution that some people in Japan are using to fill the void.
Thanks. Rental Family is on my potential list; based on your recommendation, I’ll definitely go see it.
Hamnet is getting good reviews. I think I’ll see that one as well.
I’ve been pretty quiet on the movie ping list this year because the really good, “conservative” movies (broadly defined) that I’ve seen this year are indie character dramas that never register a pulse on FR.
But for those who can handle a quiet, introspective character drama with no toxic characters, everyone treating everyone else with care and respect, nothing freakish and with the drama coming from higher order questions (you know: boring stuff like death, loss/divorce, regret, finding the grace to forgive and the courage to move on, etc.), I will recommend The Friend, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Sentimental Value (squarely in the great Scandinavian tradition of “how can we depress you more than you already are”) and A Big, Bold Beautiful Journey (which is being poorly reviewed because of the toxicity of so many viewers and critics). So ... if you like Serenity Prayer movies, there are several good ones out there. All those I mention here were released this year.
Nouvelle Vague is a refreshingly old-fashioned, throwback film. It is totally apolitical, and a lot of it is funny in a subtle, understated way.
And I have high hopes for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, which is supposed to hit the theaters February 13. This is a near future dystopian sci-fi comedy/action/drama/horror mashup about a man from the future who arrives late at night in a Norm’s Diner in LA to recruit an unlikely team of ad hoc absurdist operatives for a desperate, urgent mission to save humanity from a rogue AI ... with the job requiring them to cover a deadly six blocks of LA in the dead of night through escalating perils, and it must be done in the next couple of hours. Not all will survive. The man from the future knows this because there is a time loop involved, and this is his 118th attempt. And on this night, a couple of things will be different.
Based on two festival screenings, it’s said to be fast, crazy, wildly original, funny, and it’s a relatively low budget indie film because (I’m told) all of the major studios were scared off by some surprisingly dark subplots, which the film somehow makes hilariously funny.
Does anyone else have anything to suggest?
Thanks. Do you recommend any of them?
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Bugonia. An unusual though enjoyable film that didn’t last very long in my local theaters.
Two semi-Bum type guys suspect the CEO of a major industry in their town, is not a human woman, but an ET Alien.
The “brains” of this duo devises a plan to kidnap her and film her “confession” of being from “out there”.
I loved this movie. I had to leave before the last scenes to get my transportation, but I definitely will watch it in full sometime in the future. Equal parts unintentional laughter and stunned silence. Not too much violence or Gore. Heavy on mind games, and asking “Who’s fooling whom?”
I enjoyed Wallis Island too.
Not yet. Sent message, but definitely donโt care to see the Predator Badlands one.
Yes, I liked Bugonia as well. It’s fun, although I admit that Yorgos Lanthimos is getting predictable. Of course he ended up where he ended up; I called that as soon as the underlying premise was established.
But it IS fun. I forgot about it as I was listing my “conservative” movies.
I hadn’t even heard of The Ballad of Wallis Island, but since I’ve taken to going to some local film festivals — and Middleburg is a gem — I now get occasional invitations to some early screenings. That is always fun; I get to go cosplay as a cinephile for an evening.
And the special screenings are free....
But the Ballad of Wallis Island is full of gentle humor, compassionate treatment of others, and a couple of elevating twists towards the end. It’s certainly watchable for anyone who can tolerate a wholesome movie with some tragedies in the background.
Done with Disney.
We saw Wicked For Good yesterday, and we had seen the first one. No matter what you may think about them otherwise, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are FANTASTIC in the movies, and they are fantastic together. I find Erivo very off putting if I see her in real life, and of course she’s got to have one of those repulsive nose piercings, but she’s 100% relatable in the films. Great singer too. And my daughter was never an Ariana Grande fan, quite the opposite, so she had doubts about her, but she is great too.
The others in the cast are also very good. These are very big, fantasy spectacle type movies, but quite entertaining. A bit long, at least this second one. But worth a shot if you like musicals.
Agreed and I am not a fan of musicals (especially Wicked, but the movie versions of the songs are better than the original in my opinion.) I think it has to be seen on Big screen to be fully appreciated. Quite the spectacle indeed.
Don’t the ChiCom’s keep around 80% of the box office..?
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