Inside Out 2 Just Got Dethroned as the Highest-Grossing Animated Movie Ever

Well, that didn’t take long. It hasn’t even been a year since Inside Out 2 took over Frozen 2‘s spot atop the list of highest-grossing animated movies of all time—en route to becoming 2024’s highest-grossing movie worldwide, full stop, though Deadpool & Wolverine did make a run for it. The top movie of 2025 is still to be decided, but that animated list has a new champ: China’s Ne Zha 2, which has racked up $1.7 billion to date. This stat comes from Deadline, which notes Ne Zha 2 is also rocketing its way up the all-time highest-grossing list; it’s at number eight (Inside Out 2 now sits at number nine), though it’ll take some doing for any movie to dislodge the James Cameron trio (plus a certain Avengers flick) that currently hold the top four spots. The trade further notes that Ne Zha 2 is the first movie made outside of Hollywood to cross the billion-dollar mark. Here’s the film’s synopsis from the AMC Theaters website, a good place to start if you want to see if Ne Zha 2 is playin ... Read full article.