“ Zootopia 2 ” is off to a roaring start at the box office, earning $39.5 million in its first full day of release.

And the Disney animated sequel isn’t the only follow-up film feasting at the Thanksgiving box office. “ Wicked: For Good ” brought in $17.2 million, bringing its stateside gross to $194.6 million. Unsurprisingly, Universal, which brought the Broadway musical to the big screen, has said it wants to find a way to extend the franchise and make more movies about Oz. “Wicked: For Good” should add more than $90 million to its haul to push its domestic total to nearly $270 million.

“Zootopia 2,” a buddy cop movie with anthropomorphic animals as the bickering partners, is expected to collect $125 million to $150 million over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, to take the box

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