"Superman" will hover over the box office again as "Smurfs" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" open in theaters.

However, stewing on Elio's debut (as the box office bimbo I am) and the opening weekends for the handful of other non-sequel animated movies released theatrically in the 2020s, I began to wonder ...

Pixar built its name on original animated movies such as 'Toy Story,' 'Finding Nemo' and 'Up.' But in recent years, its sequels have been the moneymakers.

Even before the film opened to a record low for the studio, Pixar was in the midst of a course correction to balance its ...

With profitability in mind, Illumination and DreamWorks Animation have found ways to economize production costs. Original properties “Ruby Gillman,” “Migration” and “The Wild Robot ...

Pixar's "Inside Out 2," which explores the life of a young girl named Riley and her anthropomorphized emotions much like the first film, now has the highest worldwide box office revenue ever.

Apple debuts the Not a Box series streaming on Apple TV+ starting June 13th, 2025 this summer. Find more posts in: Animation , Streaming , To Watch , Trailer prev ...

National pride. As it shattered box office records, “Ne Zha 2” quickly emerged as a triumph of China’s animation and film industries. The movie was made entirely in China, involving 138 ...

But since the COVID-19 pandemic, Pixar and other animation studios have struggled to break through at the box office with the same kinds of original movies that defined the industry.

Universal has recently fielded bigger animated blockbusters, like 2023’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” ($1.4 billion) and this year’s “Despicable Me 4” ($963 million).