Wow, surprised to see Doraemon up here. I used to watch it as a kid and knew it was massive but not that massive.
Assume this is total of all feature films, but doesn’t include spin-off properties (TV, books, toys….)? Would be interesting to see a per-film average as well, or even how many films are counted for each one. For example, Wikipedia shows four “main” Despicable Me films, plus two Minions “prequel” films to date. Which ones are counted here?
I wonder how Shrek would fare had the franchise come out the last decade.
I think you are missing Inside out, which should be over Madagascar
Inside Out and Inside Out 2 total about $2.4 billion so something seems amiss.
I would love to see this adjusted to inflation.
Box office should’ve switched to ticket sales, eons ago. This means nothing as it’s not adjusted for inflation & theaters aren’t consistent in their pricing
Does Shrek 5 has a chance to outrank Descpicable Me?
Might be nice to see individual films demarcated as well.
I don’t consider myself completely ignorant of Japanese media. I enjoy the occasional manga and am a fan of Ghibli Studio films.
But I have never in my life heard of Doraemon up to this point. I’m surprised it made the top 10. Is it huge in the Asian markets? Or have I been living under a rock?
When charts like this are done there should also be a count of how many movies and/or have the bars divided up by the amount each movie made so you can see which ones are just padding out their numbers too.
most of those studios are owned by disney (pixar, blue sky, walt disney, walt disney feature animation)
Doraemon let’s gooooooooooooooooooooooo
The fact that Shrek, Toy Story and Ice Age are all still at the top when they’re all over twenty years old is pretty incredible–especially with the rise in hit animated films (like Despicable Me, Frozen, and all of the Disney animated films).
So presumably this is out of date,
Inside Out is now sitting on 2.3bn
Madagascar needs a return
You missed Inside Out. It should be here above Madagascar at $2.37 billion and still climbing
Funny to see this outdated chart just days after Inside Out 2 became the highest grossing animated film of all time.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Kung Fu Panda. A quick Google search yields a 2.3B franchise box office, putting it above Madagascar on this list. This list is definitely missing some major players.
Despicable Me is beginning to just put anything out.
During the last movie when the neighbor girl wanted to be evil and took Gru on some wild ass side quest, I became very aware that I was in a movie theatre watching a movie.
Was very surprised How to Train Your Dragon franchise wasn’t on here, those movies and tv shows are so good. 100 levels above any Despicable Me movies.
Interesting how the first five are from five different studios
Gross adjusted for different dollar values in the years the movies came out, I assume?
Surprised Nemo is that low and that The Incredibles even makes the list.
Demon Slayer definitely about to jump onto that list
Doubt about the accuracy of the source data.
Pokemon has 23 animated movies that were released in theaters – over the last *quarter of a century* (fuckimold). Boxofficemojo only lists the first five of those…and partial box office at that. The fifth movie had a box office of ~$28 million (according to Wikipedia), but Boxofficemojo only says less than a million.
Yeah Doraemon show those whippersnappers how it’s done
Somehow I think they have still neglected Pokémon-
Crazy that the studio that made Ice Age, Blue Sky Studios, shut down.
Madagascar and Doraemon are my all-time favourite animated film series.
Doraemon’s dubbed version is more well-known in my own country than any other Japanese manga character out there that your can come to your mind.
Though, I like the Madagascar-dubbed version to the English one, but that’s just my personal opinion. In my own native language, the characters are both funny and intriguing to watch.
Nowadays, I occasionally watch the Madagascar series(ofc dubbed ones), because it takes me back to my childhood days when I used to watch these films with my family and had the time of my life.
Now with the world getting more crazier and crazier, I don’t have time to do anything fun; it’s either work(most of the days, it’s work) or somedays it’s your annoying partner, who keeps nagging you for something which you don’t even know in the first place.
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Wow, surprised to see Doraemon up here. I used to watch it as a kid and knew it was massive but not that massive.
Assume this is total of all feature films, but doesn’t include spin-off properties (TV, books, toys….)? Would be interesting to see a per-film average as well, or even how many films are counted for each one. For example, Wikipedia shows four “main” Despicable Me films, plus two Minions “prequel” films to date. Which ones are counted here?
I wonder how Shrek would fare had the franchise come out the last decade.
I think you are missing Inside out, which should be over Madagascar
Inside Out and Inside Out 2 total about $2.4 billion so something seems amiss.
I would love to see this adjusted to inflation.
Box office should’ve switched to ticket sales, eons ago. This means nothing as it’s not adjusted for inflation & theaters aren’t consistent in their pricing
Does Shrek 5 has a chance to outrank Descpicable Me?
Might be nice to see individual films demarcated as well.
I don’t consider myself completely ignorant of Japanese media. I enjoy the occasional manga and am a fan of Ghibli Studio films.
But I have never in my life heard of Doraemon up to this point. I’m surprised it made the top 10. Is it huge in the Asian markets? Or have I been living under a rock?
When charts like this are done there should also be a count of how many movies and/or have the bars divided up by the amount each movie made so you can see which ones are just padding out their numbers too.
most of those studios are owned by disney (pixar, blue sky, walt disney, walt disney feature animation)
Doraemon let’s gooooooooooooooooooooooo
The fact that Shrek, Toy Story and Ice Age are all still at the top when they’re all over twenty years old is pretty incredible–especially with the rise in hit animated films (like Despicable Me, Frozen, and all of the Disney animated films).
So presumably this is out of date,
Inside Out is now sitting on 2.3bn
Madagascar needs a return
You missed Inside Out. It should be here above Madagascar at $2.37 billion and still climbing
Funny to see this outdated chart just days after Inside Out 2 became the highest grossing animated film of all time.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Kung Fu Panda. A quick Google search yields a 2.3B franchise box office, putting it above Madagascar on this list. This list is definitely missing some major players.
Despicable Me is beginning to just put anything out.
During the last movie when the neighbor girl wanted to be evil and took Gru on some wild ass side quest, I became very aware that I was in a movie theatre watching a movie.
Was very surprised How to Train Your Dragon franchise wasn’t on here, those movies and tv shows are so good. 100 levels above any Despicable Me movies.
Interesting how the first five are from five different studios
Gross adjusted for different dollar values in the years the movies came out, I assume?
Surprised Nemo is that low and that The Incredibles even makes the list.
Demon Slayer definitely about to jump onto that list
Doubt about the accuracy of the source data.
Pokemon has 23 animated movies that were released in theaters – over the last *quarter of a century* (fuckimold). Boxofficemojo only lists the first five of those…and partial box office at that. The fifth movie had a box office of ~$28 million (according to Wikipedia), but Boxofficemojo only says less than a million.
Yeah Doraemon show those whippersnappers how it’s done
Somehow I think they have still neglected Pokémon-
Crazy that the studio that made Ice Age, Blue Sky Studios, shut down.
Madagascar and Doraemon are my all-time favourite animated film series.
Doraemon’s dubbed version is more well-known in my own country than any other Japanese manga character out there that your can come to your mind.
Though, I like the Madagascar-dubbed version to the English one, but that’s just my personal opinion. In my own native language, the characters are both funny and intriguing to watch.
Nowadays, I occasionally watch the Madagascar series(ofc dubbed ones), because it takes me back to my childhood days when I used to watch these films with my family and had the time of my life.
Now with the world getting more crazier and crazier, I don’t have time to do anything fun; it’s either work(most of the days, it’s work) or somedays it’s your annoying partner, who keeps nagging you for something which you don’t even know in the first place.