‘Inside Out 2’ is now the biggest animated film ever

Pixar returns to the top. His latest film, Inside Out 2Not only is it a hit, but it’s not the highest-grossing animated film in history (with a pretty big asterisk).

Disney and Pixar are promoting that Inside Out 2With $1.462 billion earned worldwide, it is now the biggest animated hit of all time. Its ticket sales put it ahead of the previous record holder, the 2019 film. Frozen IIalso from Disney, which grossed $1,453 worldwide.

Disney is also promoting the fact that Inside Out 2 It is the fastest animated film in history to reach $1 billion (it took 19 days to cross that threshold). It is also the highest-grossing film of 2024, as well as the only film of the year to date to gross $1 billion.

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Now, with all that said, what’s the asterisk? It’s this: by making this bold claim, Disney is basically ignoring its own animated film, the 2019 remake of The Lion King. If you include The Lion King As an animated film, it is the highest-grossing animated film in history, with $1.663 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

Why Disney? No Do they count? Apparently, they see the film as a “live” remake of the original. Lion Kingsimilar to the studio’s live-action versions of Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beasteither The Jungle Book. The difference, however, is that while all of those films featured digitally animated characters, they also featured live-action actors. The Lion King It’s not. All the “live action” animals were actually computer generated.

In fact, according to The Lion KingAccording to the film’s director Jon Favreau himself, there is only one “real shot” in the entire film, in addition to “1,490 rendered shots created by animators and CG artists.” Favreau joked on Twitter in 2019 that he “included a single shot that we actually photographed in Africa to see if anyone would notice.”

Despite all that, Disney does not consider this Lion King an animated film. And if you No Consider it an animated movie, then yes, Inside Out 2 It is the box office champion.