Hacker Cinema
Zootopia 2
2025 · Film · 108 min
Part of Zootopia Collection
Directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard
AnimationAdventureComedyMysteryFamily
After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De'Snake arrives and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.
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This article is full of so many interesting details. E.g. I found this passage on the technological progress in rendering snow from Frozen (2013) to Zootopia 2 fascinating:
"To give an example of the amazing amount of detail in Zootopia 2: at one point during production, our rendering team noticed some shots that had incredibly detailed snow with tons of tiny glints, so out of curiosity we opened up the shots to see how the artists had shaded the snow, and we found that they had constructed the snow out of zillions upon zillions of individual ice crystals. We were completely blown away; constructing snow this way was an idea that Disney Research had explored shortly after the first Frozen movie was made in 2013, but at the time it was purely a theoretical research idea, and a decade later our artists were just going ahead and actually doing it. The result in the final film looks absolutely amazing, and on top of that, instead of needing a specialized technology solution to make this approach feasible, in the past decade both our renderer and computers in general have gotten so much faster and our artists have improved their workflows so much that a brute-force solution was good enough to achieve this effect without much trouble at all."
People are already working for years on Zootopia 2 and every one of their technolical advances were driven by that movie.
These inventions are represented at Siggraph and are often also research paper and land in the whole ecosystem (in software like hudini).
LDR live from their ideas and stories and experiments with styles. I don't think its relevant for technology it would just be a tech demo.
China loves KFC.
There are other American brands that do well such as Nike, The North Face, Coach, Polo, and Estee Lauder.
And while Hollywood movies have been in decline in China, Zootopia 2 did amazingly well recently.
Where's the demographic data in this piece? Moviegoing isn't the 'same' but it seems like there's a segment of the 'younger generation' that gravitates towards the 'event' aspect of some bigger draws. Taylor Swift movie? Barbie? Minecraft? etc
And what is 'older generations'? Maybe that's not the elder millenial-Gen X portion of the market, but maybe 65+ have a lot of time on their hands to go see Oppenheimer etc. Top Gun? Just some off the top of my head that seemed to have an impact culturally and box office-wise.
There's something to be said about the quality of films and/or the role of the blockbuster level ones. Maybe the result is only the mega films are what the cinema is for in the end.
Meanwhile just last month Zootopia 2 set single-day record for a Hollywood open in China.