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There is a good amount of evidence that the US government contracts some of the bigger studios and makes deals with them so that they portray things how the government wants them to be.
A big example is any movie involving the US military. They'll rent out all the military equipment for free as long as they get final say over the movie.
Not sure if something like this would fall under that, but I wouldn't be shocked.
I love the common American boogeyman known as "government". I like to imagine the president or any other of the fuckers in high positions going to the film studios and explaining to them what the government has chosen and what they're gonna show in the movie. Instead of their more common leisure time - coke, hookers and moralizing.
Some military movies are sponsored by the military (not the government), but as much as you'd like there to be some conspiracy, it's dead simple - the marketing guys decided it's a great opportunity to recruit people and the director got to make an expensive movie for cheap.
Isn't that a good strategy though if you're trying to project soft power by using your domestic film industry to your advantage?
American culture is one of its big exports, and you can gain a lot more cultural influence around the world by making cool movies with multimillion weapons systems by cooperating with filmmakers when they'd otherwise be sitting at the ready or in storage.
But also, the US government didn't have a hand in Zootopia's plot.