In this video we list the 50 highest grossing animated movies of all time.

Films can generate income from several revenue streams, like income from theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights and merchandising.

The primary metric in assessing the success of a film are the theatrical box office earnings. Using theatrical box office earnings to rank the highest grossing movies is done because of historical practice but also because of the availability of the data compared to sales figures for home video and broadcast rights.

With a worldwide box-office gross of over $1.657 billion, The 2019 remake of the Lion King is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" animated film of all time as to this date. This claim "highest-grossing" movie refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film's earnings.

Once revenue from home entertainment is factored in it is not immediately clear which film is the most successful.

Television broadcast rights will also substantially add to a film's earnings, with a film often earning as much as 20–25% of its theatrical box-office for a couple of television runs on top of pay-per-view revenues.

Merchandising can be extremely lucrative too: The Lion King (1994) sold $3 billion of merchandise, while Pixar's Cars — which earned $462 million in theatrical revenues and was only a modest hit by comparison to other films — generated global merchandise sales of over $8 billion in the five years after its 2006 release.
Pixar had another huge hit with Toy Story 3, which generated almost $10 billion in merchandise retail sales in addition to the $1 billion it earned at the box office.

The movies in this list are ranked by international theatrical box office performance, excluding income derived from home video, braodcasting rights and merchandise.

Listed Movies (in order of their ranking):
Kung Fu Panda 3, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Simpsons Movie, The Boss Baby, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Ralph Breaks the Internet, WALL-E, Brave, Madagascar, Despicable Me, Puss in Boots, Cars 2, The Croods, Tangled, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters, Inc., Sing, Big Hero 6, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Kung Fu Panda 2, Moana, Ne Zha, Up, Monsters University, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Shrek Forever After, Coco, Shrek the Third, Inside Out, The Secret Life of Pets, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Shrek 2, Finding Nemo, The Lion King (1994 original), Despicable Me 2, Zootopia, Finding Dory, Despicable Me 3, Toy Story 3,
Toy Story 4, Minions, Incredibles 2, Frozen, Frozen II, The Lion King (2019 remake).

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