Animation Dominates the box office: 5 Animated Films Crack the top 10 for the First Time EVER!
A Huge Milestone: Animation Takes Over the Box Office!
Get this: For the first time EVER, animated movies now hold a whopping FIVE spots in the domestic box office Top 10! This is seriously HUGE news. It shows animation's reached a new level, seriously competing with live-action films for viewers' attention; a level playing field that many people believe has never happened. This totally changes the dynamics surrounding the entire filmmaking industry, showcasing an important turning point for audiences that has impacted how studios approach both animated and live action productions. 2024’s been a wild year at the box office; major flops ("Joker: Folie à Deux", some Lionsgate titles and Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis") alongside some surprisingly massive successes; these all become more pronounced in this surprising reveal!
Inside Out 2’s success as the highest-grossing movie of 2024 alone creates some context and adds further depth to these very interesting implications and changes and this unexpected event also adds a lot more credibility to this incredible reveal of this incredibly unique top ten list; adding another surprising and totally unusual layer of events.
The Wrap broke the news about these surprising details surrounding that unique top 10 list; those numbers don't lie, this is seriously big. We’ll cover just why this record has impacted animated movie-making; and everything involved. We'll look into what's made animation into this absolutely undeniable power in film right now.
The Animated Top 10: Diversity of Stories, Studios, and Success
Those animated movies hitting the Top 10 really showcases amazing variety and an incredible level of craftsmanship found throughout these movies; completely dispelling the old notion that animated movies couldn’t compete; this clearly is simply untrue. Those awesome titles are from several studios including; DreamWorks, Focus Features, Paramount, Crunchyroll/Sony, and Disney. And that success includes those major achievements:
- The Wild Robot: Close to $150 million globally.
- Transformers One: Over $50 million domestically and $100 million worldwide.
This is after some huge animated successes in the prior few years – that already mind-blowing Inside Out 2 (a total record-breaker!) Despicable Me 4 (a global powerhouse), plus Kung Fu Panda 4; these are just some examples! And it doesn’t stop here either. Huge releases from Disney (Moana 2!), Warner Bros. (Looney Tunes!), and more promise an exciting, long-term animated future that showcases continued dominance in various markets!
What This Means for Animated Films: The Genre's New Power
This new top ten shows the major changes which impact animated films in many interesting ways and completely shifts some fundamental beliefs; highlighting exactly why people had dismissed them earlier on. This clearly illustrates a monumental shift and impact; making animated productions equally as versatile as their live-action equivalents!
This also brings into play the important competition aspect which exists now amongst those various movie-producing companies; the level of competition shows more than just success alone; more studios participate! This makes this competition far more intense; showcasing how lucrative animated projects could become – an incredible testament that completely dispels this outdated notion from many that animation wasn’t as effective and financially capable of matching live action films.
Conclusion: Animation's Reign Continues (and It’s Awesome!)
Animated movies cracking the top ten list has brought several previously-unimagined changes that impact how everyone sees this particular movie type and genre and completely showcases animation's immense popularity, creative power and potential. It completely disrupts that prior belief; this industry was largely controlled by major names (such as Pixar). That is no longer remotely the case!
The wide variety and immense popularity of those various animated movie choices really is exciting and has totally revolutionized how many producers create this particular content and is a welcome change to the industry, generating incredible enthusiasm amongst the audience! It’s totally a great moment! It means the animation future looks seriously bright!
