Inside Out 2 Simply Obtained Dethroned because the Highest-Grossing Animated Film Ever

Properly, that didn’t take lengthy. It hasn’t even been a 12 months since Inside Out 2 took over Frozen 2‘s spot atop the checklist of highest-grossing animated films of all time—en path to turning into 2024’s highest-grossing film worldwide, full cease, although Deadpool & Wolverine did make a run for it. The highest film of 2025 remains to be to be determined, however that animated checklist has a brand new champ: China’s Ne Zha 2, which has racked up $1.7 billion up to now.

This stat comes from Deadline, which notes Ne Zha 2 can be rocketing its means up the all-time highest-grossing checklist; it’s at quantity eight (Inside Out 2 now sits at quantity 9), although it’ll take some doing for any film to dislodge the James Cameron trio (plus a sure Avengers flick) that at the moment maintain the highest 4 spots.

The commerce additional notes that Ne Zha 2 is the primary film made exterior of Hollywood to cross the billion-dollar mark. Right here’s the movie’s synopsis from the AMC Theaters web site, an excellent place to start out if you wish to see if Ne Zha 2 is taking part in in a theater close to you: “After the heavenly lightning, though Ne Zha and Ao Bing survived by turning into Spirits, they’d quickly dissipate fully. Taiyi plans to rebuild Ne Zha and Ao Bing’s mortal our bodies with the Seven-colored Valuable Lotus. Nevertheless, through the strategy of reconstruction, quite a few obstacles come up. What’s going to turn out to be of the destiny of Ne Zha and Ao Bing?”

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