Neil Freiman

How are you doing both?

You're investing in more gas powered cars instead of EVs.

You're pulling billions of dollars out of that.

It's not clear how you can win this global EV race when these other companies, especially in China, are going all in with these lower priced cars and you're still making gas guzzlers.

So that is I think there's some skepticism around whether they can pull off this balancing act.

Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde are the animal buddy cops the world needed right now.

After another strong weekend in theaters, Zootopia 2 has crossed $1.1 billion at the global box office, becoming the biggest Hollywood movie of 2025.

Moving into second place is the Lilo & Stitch live-action remake, giving Disney the first and second slots on the leaderboard and the only studio to produce

two $1 billion movies this year.

Zootopia 2 owes its stunning success to one market in particular, China.

Chinese audiences have been obsessed with Zootopia since the first one arrived in 2016, and they showed up in force for the sequel.

With over $500 million in Chinese box office receipts so far, it's broken all kinds of records for an American movie in China and could top Avengers Endgame as the highest-grossing Hollywood film there.

And even more remarkable, it comes at a time when U.S.

movies have largely pulled back from Chinese theaters.

While China used to be a very lucrative market for American studios, it is the second largest theater market in the world after all.

Domestic movies have squeezed out Hollywood productions in the last decade or so.

Many Hollywood movies are banned from China by the government or they're subject to tight censorship.

Some massive global blockbusters like Top Gun Maverick and Spider-Man No Way Home decided to skip China altogether rather than undergo Beijing-friendly edits.

But somehow, those sly foxes at Zootopia managed to thread the needle and they're laughing all the way to the bank.

in one day in China so obviously if you can get your movie over there you're going to want to because look at how well this movie is doing and this was no accident Disney went all out on Zootopia after seeing how successful it was in 2016 in China they're the only Zootopia land at a theme park is at Shanghai Disneyland they did a partnership with China Eastern Airlines to create a Zootopia