I am so pleased that Toy Story 3 has taken the crown that it rightful deserved as the Highest Grossing Animated film of all time. Its box office performance is most definitely going to make it hit $1 billion, it is destined to do it. If you want a film to gross a billion, its Toy Story for you. The film is absolutely loved worldwide, thanks to its predecessors and the long gap for a third installment was enough time for people to discover Toy Story and fall in love it with. I’m just wondering if this has been or waiting to be released in China.
Woo-hoo! I know Pixar is celebrating, and they deserve every dollar of their worldwide run. Toy Story 3 will definetally break the billion dollar point (and hopefully beat Alice in Wonderland for the #1 movie of 2010). I think Cars 2 is going to have a hard time breaking that, though.
I’m confused. Toy Story 3 is meant to be the highest grossing animated movie of all time, but on Box Office Mojo’s list of all-time worldwide box office grosses, it’s still behind Shrek 2. 
[url]http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/[/url]
That is confusing, nathan. 
They take a while to update, just be patient.
Updated numbers
Domestic: $400,767,000 42.6%
- Foreign: $539,300,000 57.4%
= Worldwide: $940,067,000
The Ogre has been officially retired. 
Yay! Go Toy Story 3 and Pixar! You made it!
congratulations Toy Story 3
#1 Animation Movie Ever
#9 Movie Ever (Maybe)
To infinity, and beyond!
YAY! TS3 rocks!
Oh yes!!!
See ya’ Jeff Katzenberg
Doesn’t look like it’s going to make more than 1 Billion though. So it’s not going to be the highest grossing movie of the year. Which is a shame because it was better than Alice in Wonderland so it deserves to make more money.
Falls to 11th place in the U.S. But don’t worry, it’s good for about $10-15M more before being taken out of the theaters. Only 1200 theaters are playing it now, but that will probably jump by about +400 screens on Labor Day, cuz families pack them on that U.S. holiday, same thing happened to Wall-E and Up, and that will be good for an extra million or two. Edit: Falls to 16th place, my local multiplex took it out, falling hard. It will now be tough to make it to $415M as some of us predicted.
There is a strong probability TS3 will pass up Alice, I still haven’t read the worldofKJ.com site this weekend to see the latest prediction from their oracles. It will end up #8 or 9 all time in the U.S. and #5 or 6 in the world when all is said and done. Here is the link to the accolade referred to last Friday:
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Britain: $91.5M, with nearly $10M this past week, and still #1 there!
Japan: explodes up to $96M, with $19M this past week, still #1, in its 6th week. Why so much? Cuz of a big 4 day festival there.
But as strong as the Americas have been, and Japan and the U.K. (they have pumped $730M of the $940M), the rest of Europe has been either so-so, such as France, Spain and Italy, to just plain underwhelming: everywhere from the Netherlands east to the Asian border. Analysts have been complaining how poor it’s been doing in the emerging markets of Eastern Europe, only half as well as Up did last summer.
France: $3M to $36M, Spain: up to $25M, Germany: $3M to $12.5M; so I’ve accounted so far for about $42M of the $45M weekly advance in just 7 nations, including Thailand, just opened, scored $1M. Still searching for numbers from South Korea, where one source says it retained #1 spot. Edit: up to $8.6M there, a very decent week. Expect the take to start plummeting, since its so flat outside of these 7 nations, which won’t keep flying forever.
Future guesses: $15M more from the U.S., including the big Labor Day holiday. $20M more each from Britain and Japan, $15M+ Scandinavia = $70M more for the kitty and pushes over $1.010B globally. With the other countries, it should garner more than it needs to be the top grosser of the year.
Well, that certainly surprised me.
I would have assumed that it would have fallen short of the $400 million finish.
Though it is nice to see that worldwide it bested Shrek 2. Of course, I still don’t see how Alice in Wonderland was able to make $1 billion worldwide.
Same here. I think it was because of Johnny Depp!
It would be amazing if TS3 were to gross over 1 billion dollars worldwide. It would become the first animated movie to do so.
Do you guys think it’s possible? With how strong overseas is still doing, I think it’s well within reach!
Congrats to Toy Story 3 for taking the crown, it derserves it. Not it only needs to extend 411 millian.
Have to agree with you guys on Alice. Star power from Depp and Helena B. Carter and Anne Hathaway were major forces. Also, releasing it just before Easter, while some schools were still on spring break, and that’s also a time between quarters at half the colleges, with no summer blockbusters, no holiday season crowded with indie, artsie and other blockbusters, were clever ways to avoid the competition. It had been 1-2 months since a good release. And there was intense interest, even more than you see now for Inception. And, of course, it was Disney, their 2nd release of this title, and first in 60 years. And, finally, Tim Burton!
Rottentomatoes gave Alice only a 51% tm rating! I gave it mixed reviews too. Something about using an older Alice took away from the danger element. The ending was very unsatisfying for me. It will be very satisfying to see TS3 push past it in 5-6 weeks to become the biggest grosser of the year!
But over One Billion dollars! I liked Prince of Persia better, more original since I wasn’t already familiar with the concept behind this other Disney release.
You really think the toy’ll break $1 billion? Currently Box Office Mojo reports only $1 million dollars of growth in the past week.
You’ve been right so far, but I would of thought the gravy train would’ve run out by now.
They update the foreign take only once a week, mostly on sundays, so check again after the weekend and you’ll see it being a lot closer to the 1 bilion mark