{"id":2198751,"date":"2025-12-14T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2198751"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:32:13","slug":"box-office-zootopia-2-returns-to-no-1-as-ella-mccay-suffers-one-of-worst-debuts-ever-for-disney-with-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/box-office-zootopia-2-returns-to-no-1-as-ella-mccay-suffers-one-of-worst-debuts-ever-for-disney-with-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2018Zootopia 2\u2019 Returns to No. 1 as \u2018Ella McCay\u2019 Suffers One of Worst Debuts Ever for Disney With $2 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Disney is experiencing the highs and lows the box office has to offer. On one hand, the studio\u2019s animated sequel \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26443597\/\">Zootopia 2<\/a>\u201d returned to No. 1 in North America in its third weekend after sprinting past the $1 billion mark. On the other, the political dramedy \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30096221\/\">Ella McCay<\/a>\u201d cratered with $2.1 million in its domestic debut, suffering one of the worst openings in modern times for Disney.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30096221\/\">Ella McCay<\/a>\u201d cost $35 million to produce, which is way less than Disney tends to spend on its theatrical releases. Most of the studio\u2019s movies \u2014 including franchise fare from Marvel and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0499549\/\">Avatar<\/a>,\u201d as well as family-friendly sensations like \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt22022452\/\">Inside Out 2<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11655566\/\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/a>\u201d \u2014 typically carry budgets above $200 million. Although \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30096221\/\">Ella McCay<\/a>\u201d isn\u2019t in danger of turning a profit for Disney, the PG-13 misfire probably won\u2019t cause heads to roll, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30096221\/\">Ella McCay<\/a>,\u201d written and directed by \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096697\/\">The Simpsons<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney is experiencing the highs and lows the box office has to offer. On one hand, the studio\u2019s animated sequel \u201cZootopia 2\u201d returned to No. 1 in North America in its third weekend after sprinting past the $1 billion mark. On the other, the political dramedy \u201cElla McCay\u201d cratered with $2.1 million in its domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2198752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2198751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Box-Office-\u2018Zootopia-2-Returns-to-No-1-as-\u2018Ella.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198753,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198751\/revisions\/2198753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}