The film, along with Captain America: Civil War, were the most expensive films of the year ($250 million). Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had the biggest worldwide opening weekend ever for a superhero film with $422.5 million, surpassing The Avengers ($392.5 million in 2012).Along with Finding Dory, it became one of two animated films to earn over $1 billion in the same year, a first. Zootopia became the highest-grossing original animated film of all time, surpassing Finding Nemo ($940.3 million in 2003).It also became the highest-grossing superhero film not to feature Batman, Spider-Man, or Iron Man in any capacity. It later became the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time worldwide, surpassing The Matrix Reloaded, with $783.1 million. Deadpool became the second-highest-grossing R-rated domestic film of all time with $363.1 million, after The Passion of the Christ ($370.8 million in 2004).Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe became the first film franchise to have four of its films gross over $1 billion with Captain America: Civil War joining 2012's The Avengers, 2013's Iron Man 's Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the first to gross more than $10 billion with the release of Civil War.
Disney is also the first studio to have three films gross over $400 million domestically in a single year ( Rogue One, Finding Dory, and Captain America: Civil War), and the first to fill in all slots of the top five films of any particular year.
Disney later passes $7 billion at the global box office again in 2018. Disney became the first studio to gross more than $3 billion at the domestic box office and, with the release of Rogue One, became the first to gross more than $7 billion at the global box office, surpassing Universal's previous record of $6.9 billion in 2015. Walt Disney Studios has also become the first studio to have the five highest-grossing films worldwide, and the first since at least 1913 to have the three highest-grossing films in the U.S., both in a single year. Disney also eclipsed Universal's 2015 record for most films from a single year crossing $1 billion worldwide with four ( Captain America: Civil War, Rogue One, Finding Dory, and Zootopia), setting a new record for most billion-dollar-grossing films over two years with six (including Avengers: Age of Ultron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens). The studio became the first to have five of its releases ( Rogue One, Finding Dory, Captain America: Civil War, The Jungle Book, and Zootopia) from a single year reach $300 million domestically. Disney's previous record for reaching $1 billion was on the 174th day of 2015.