aiming out of the stadium and calling my shot: Zootopia 2 will be the third highest grossing animated film
the first movie was a fluke of production and marketing and didn't have the full backing of Disney, won the Oscar and became a hit anyways
went on to make $1 Billion, in large part due to ticket sales in Japan and China
in the time since then, Shanghai Disneyland converted like 30% of their park into Zootopia world basically
Zootopia merchandise has its highest sales in Japan
Disney made a deal so that a Zootopia 2 animated skit does the "proper theater ettiquette" reel in Toho movie theaters in Japan
Marketing has been pushing HARD in China
Ne Zha 2, an animated film produced in China, was released this year and went on to make $2.2 billion. animated movies might still be a huge draw
I'm 99% positive that the reason the plot of Zootopia 2 involves a snake is bc they think it's effective pandering with the "Year of the Snake"
the first time Zootopia made that much overseas, it was without focused marketing and now it's like a known entity/IP with a ton of marketing
in the US the only real competition around the release date is Wicked 2, which would've been in theaters for a week by then. and no other huge hits coming after it for a good few weeks.
Zootopia will make a bajillion dollars and the discourse will be awful and so will the movie probably but the material result is this: furries will be mainstream (and therefor lame) by 2030
what did i fucking say
I MAY HAVE UNDERESTIMATED THINGS
