November 26, 2025 : Zootopia 2 – Rounding Out the Trilogy of Questionably Produced Sequels
Zootopia 2 comes out this Holiday weekend, and I’m happy it looks to have a solid opening run at the box office. I really liked the first one and was surprised it took so long to make a sequel (9 years?!).
In fact, this is the third animated sequel in the past year to come out that seemed like an obvious greenlight but in fact took pretty long to do so. The other two being Moana and The Bad Guys – although the latter did only come out in 2022. Still, for Dreamworks, 3.5 years for a well deserved sequel feels longer than normal.
I’m not sure what the hold up was, particularly for Moana and Zootopia. Each of their first movies killed it financially (Zootopia raked in over a $1 billion!). Despite this success, there was little to no movement on a sequel for nearly a decade. These are both Disney properties, so maybe they were spending most of their time figuring out how to turn these into live action movies…
posted by Pi Visuals at 10:59 pm
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January 28, 2025 : Moana 2 Killing It
I haven’t watched it yet; but being a big fan of the first one, I’m excited Moana 2 is doing so well theatrically. It recently crossed over the $1B mark in total gross, which granted is an arbitrary threshold, but impressive nonetheless.
The article above mentions Moana 2 is the fourth film from Walt Disney Animation to cross the magical $1 Billion mark (which excludes Pixar movies). Two of the other three on the list wasn’t much of a surprise – Frozen and Frozen 2 – but I didn’t realize the other film was Zootopia.
Much like the first Moana, I was a fan of Zootopia and felt it was underappreciated. Then again, given it’s performance at the Box Office, maybe not. There was a spinoff series in 2022, and a sequel is (finally) coming out later this year. The fact that it took so long to make one, particularly given its box office success, is surprising. Much like Moana, I guess better late than never.
posted by Pi Visuals at 11:43 pm
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