Rahul Malhotra is a news writer at Collider specialising in box office coverage, and Indian cinema. He has been contributing to Collider for 3 years.
The Big Picture After exactly four years of misfortune, Pixar can heave a sigh of relief as Inside Out 2 shatters box office records of all kinds. This week, its fourth in theaters worldwide, the animated sequel became the studio’s top-grossing film of all time at the global box office, and in doing so, pushed Pixar’s cumulative revenue past an incredible milestone. As of this week, the nearly 30 Pixar movies released so far have grossed a combined total of over $16.
Inside Out 2 is the most recent entrant in this exclusive club, with $1.25 billion in global box office revenue. The movie recently overtook Incredibles 2’s $1.24 billion lifetime haul from 2018. The three other Pixar movies to have made more than $1 billion worldwide are Toy Story 4 , Toy Story 3 and Finding Dory . Incidentally, each of these five movies is a sequel.
Pixar Movies Have Grossed $16.6 Billion Globally Inside Out 2 debuted in June to majestic numbers, delivering the second-best domestic debut for an animated release. It has since become the third-biggest animated movie of all time domestically — behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Incredibles 2 — and the fourth-biggest worldwide, behind Frozen, Super Mario, and Frozen II. By the looks of it, the movie has a solid chance of eventually overtaking Frozen II’s $1.
By comparison, the Marvel Cinematic Universe remains the highest-grossing film franchise of all time, with nearly $30 billion in global box office revenue. The Despicable Me series, which recently saw the release of Despicable Me 4, has generated nearly $5 billion worldwide, but from only six releases. The six Shrek movies, on the other hand, have grossed over $4 billion globally.
Pixar’s first film to pass $1 billion in global box office revenue was Toy Story 3. Like Inside Out 2, the movie was also produced on a reported budget of $200 million. While rival studios have drastically reduced spending on their animated films, Pixar continues to spend top-dollar on its movies, despite recent setbacks. The pandemic forced Disney to release three Pixar movies in a row — Soul, Luca, and Turning Red — on the Disney+ streaming platform.
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