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《疯狂动物城2》引领北美观影潮

Walt Disney Animation’s “Zootopia 2” and Universal’s Broadway musical adaptation “Wicked: For Good” delivered movie theaters a much-needed one-two punch (吸引力) for the US holiday weekend box office.

“Zootopia 2” was put on last Wednesday, kicking off a five-day Thanksgiving opening weekend. Its $156 million estimated box office is the second-best five-day Thanksgiving debut (首映), behind Disney’s animated adventure movie “Moana 2”, which opened in 2024 to $225 million in the US.

“Disney has made it an event that comes almost every year over the Thanksgiving holiday,” said Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Comscore. “Families just loved ‘Zootopia 2’ in such a deep way.”

The end-of-year holiday season is as important to Hollywood as the highly lucrative summer season — a period when many hugely successful movies earned billions of dollars at the box office — especially when coming off of a historically bad October, noted Shawn Robbins, director of analytics (分析学) at Fandango and founder of analytics firm Box Office Theory.

Hollywood stuck to its strategy from last year, when a “Wicked” film and an animated follow-up movie from Disney drew big audiences to theaters. Last weekend, “Wicked: For Good” went beyond expectations when it opened to $150 million in the US. It earned another $62.8 million Friday through Sunday, bringing its US total to $270.4 million.

“We’re getting spoiled by these last two years. It’s really hard to pull that off,” Robbins said. “It also goes to show the power of films popular with women at the box office, because neither of these are male-driven hit movies.”

Together, “Wicked: For Good” and “Zootopia 2” earned a combined $249 million in the US over the five days, according to Comscore data. “Zootopia 2” also earned $400 million internationally, bringing it to an estimated $556 million globally. And “Wicked: For Good” has earned $393.25 million globally since its debut.