Pixar is back on top. His latest film, Inside Out 2is not only a success, but it is also not the highest-grossing animated film in history — with a pretty substantial asterisk.
Disney and Pixar are publicizing this Inside Out 2With $1.462 billion in worldwide grosses, it is now the biggest animated hit of all time. Its ticket sales put it ahead of the previous record holder, from 2019. Frozen IIalso from Disney, which grossed $1,453 worldwide.
Disney is also publicizing the fact that Inside Out 2 It is the fastest animated film to gross $1 billion in history. (It took the film 19 days to cross that threshold.) It is also the highest-grossing film of 2024, as well as the only film of the year so far 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 essentially 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 tell that? They apparently see the film as a “live-action” remake of the original Lion Kingsimilar to the studio’s live-action versions Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beastor The Jungle Book. The difference, however, is that while all of these films included digitally animated characters, they also featured real, flesh-and-blood actors. 2019 The Lion King No. All of the “live-action” animals were actually computer generated.
In fact, according to The Lion KingThe film’s director, Jon Favreau, himself has said that there is only one “real shot” in the entire film, in addition to “1490 rendered shots created by animators and CG artists.” Favreau joked on Twitter in 2019 that he “put in a single shot that we actually shot in Africa to see if anyone would notice.”
Despite all this, Disney doesn’t consider this Lion King an animated film. And if you no consider this an animated film, then yes, Inside Out 2 is the box office champion.
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