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

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.

Besides Elemental, Disney's Wish was the only original animated film to finish in the top 50 at the box office this year. Everything else was a franchise. The Boy and The Heron Still.

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 ...

That theme has held true even during slower months. Sony’s “Sausage Party” just broke the all-time opening weekend record for an animated movie in August, serving up $33.6 million.

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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.

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).