So with animated movies making a killing at the box office, we decided to look back on the 15 all - time highest -
grossing animated movies, adjusted for inflation over time.
It stars Hill, Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey... but you can't actually see their faces in what wound up being one of DreamWorks» lowest -
grossing animated movies.
Not exact matches
Disney's ice princess
movie is already the top -
grossing animated film of all time.
(In fact, 4 of the top 10 highest -
grossing films at the domestic box office so far in 2016 are
animated movies.)
Well, in order of
gross, there's the so - so antepenultimate «Harry Potter» picture «Half - Blood Prince» ($ 934.4 m), excellent second Middle - Earth picture «The Two Towers,» ($ 926m), mildly disappointing
animated sequel «Shrek 2» ($ 919.8 m), very strong, R - Patz - featuring Potter «The Goblet Of Fire» ($ 896.9 m), two disappointing «Ice Age»
movies, «Dawn Of The Dinosaurs» ($ 886.7 m) and «Continental Drift» ($ 877.2 m), the original and best «Lord of the Rings»
movie «The Fellowship Of The Ring» ($ 871.5 m), very good YA adaptation «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» ($ 864.9 m), Lucas» galactic finale «Revenge Of The Sith» ($ 848.8 m), and awful second «Transformers» «Revenge Of The Fallen» ($ 836.3 m).
In a year where we had some pretty cool and unusual things happening in mainstream cinema (an
animated «princess»
movie where the most important relationship was between two sisters, a space thriller whose face was a middle - aged woman, a high -
grossing action
movie starring a young woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female buddy - cop
movie), this just seems....
A prequel to the 2010 hit «Despicable Me,» «Minions»
grossed $ 46.2 million in first day of release in North America in July, a record for an
animated movie.
Based on the Dodie Smith novel, Walt Disney's
animated family adventure - the highest
grossing movie of 1961 in the USA - follows two parent...
Resembling a children's
movie for grown - ups while reining in Del Toro's worst tendencies, its hybrid form holds clear appeal for another year when the highest -
grossing films replace humans with costumed superheroes and
animated creatures, our postmodern costume dramas.
The raunchy comedy that's
grossed $ 65 million after two weeks in theaters is the first R - rated CG
animated movie.
You expect a
movie as disastrously under - attended as Mars Needs Moms to be wretched, so it's genuinely surprising to discover that not only is it not so bad, it even has more going for it than most of the year's highest -
grossing animated films.
Whatever the reasoning behind Valiant's quiet theatrical run (and we might not ever know), the film wound up with a grand North American box office total of just $ 19.5 million, making it handily the all - time lowest -
grossing widely - released computer -
animated film in the continent (by comparison, 2002's Jonah: A VeggieTales
Movie earned $ 6 million more) and putting it just slightly ahead of the $ 18 million
gross of DisneyToon Studios» modest off - season traditionally
animated release Pooh's Heffalump
Movie.
Despite the fact that more than half the computer -
animated movies previously released to American theaters had
grossed more than $ 150 million there, despite the fact that Valiant boasted a voice cast filled with famous Britons, despite the fact that there was no direct
animated competition for more than three months... Disney seemed to have very little confidence or interest in their acquisition.
Warner Bros.»
animated superhero comedy The LEGO Batman
Movie has
grossed $ 92.6 million in its opening weekend around the globe.
This February's «The Lego
Movie,» an animated film about Emmet Brickowski («Guardians of the Galaxy» star Chris Pratt) and his adventures with a group of superheroes and franchise characters, was the fourth - highest grossing movie of 2014, according to the website Box Office
Movie,» an
animated film about Emmet Brickowski («Guardians of the Galaxy» star Chris Pratt) and his adventures with a group of superheroes and franchise characters, was the fourth - highest
grossing movie of 2014, according to the website Box Office
movie of 2014, according to the website Box Office Mojo.
To this day, Chicken Run is still the highest
grossing stop - motion
animated movie of all time, and now is apparently the time to make a sequel happen.