#1 of 24 2001 · Adventure, Fantasy
$579.8M worldwide · 35% of the chart's total
Monsters, Inc. (2001) is the highest-grossing animation movie released in 2001, with $579.8M worldwide, ahead of Shrek (2001) at $489M and Blood: The Last Vampire (2001) at $186.1M. 24 animation films released in 2001 report a worldwide gross, $1.6B in all, 51% of it from the US & Canada. 4 films crossed $100 million; none reached $1 billion. That is up 22% on 2000, whose releases took $1.4B. By language, English leads with $1B across 10 animation releases.
#1 of 24 2001 · Adventure, Fantasy
$579.8M worldwide · 35% of the chart's total
Monsters, Inc. (2001) leads with $579.8M, 35% of the total. The top 5 together took $1.4B, 88% of what all 24 films earned. Each bar splits a film's gross into the US & Canada and the rest of the world.
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Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada. Films are grouped by their release date in 2001.
Nov 2, 2001 US and Canada: $290.6M Rest of the world: $289.1M Worldwide: $579.8M
May 18, 2001 US and Canada: $268.7M Rest of the world: $220.3M Worldwide: $489M
Aug 17, 2001 US and Canada: $84.1M Rest of the world: $102M Worldwide: $186.1M
Dec 21, 2001 US and Canada: $80.9M Rest of the world: $22.1M Worldwide: $103M
Apr 6, 2001 US and Canada: $17.1M Rest of the world: $51.4M Worldwide: $68.4M
Feb 16, 2001 US and Canada: $36.7M Rest of the world: $7.8M Worldwide: $44.5M
Feb 23, 2001 US and Canada: $13.7M Rest of the world: $25.8M Worldwide: $39.4M
Oct 4, 2001 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $14.8M
Feb 23, 2001 US and Canada: $5.4M Rest of the world: $2.2M Worldwide: $7.6M
Oct 19, 2001 US and Canada: $2.9M Rest of the world: $275.4K Worldwide: $3.2M
Dec 15, 2001 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.8M
Sep 1, 2001 US and Canada: $1M Rest of the world: $210.8K Worldwide: $1.2M
Dec 21, 2001 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $928.2K
May 11, 2001 US and Canada: $102.2K Rest of the world: $526.2K Worldwide: $628.4K
Dec 21, 2001 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $516.7K
Dec 19, 2001 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $125.7K
Aug 11, 2001 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $30.7K
Jul 20, 2001 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $25K Of the top 10, Recess: School's Out (2001) earned the biggest share at home (83% in the US & Canada), while Pokémon 3: The Movie (2001) made 75% of its gross abroad. Across all 24 films, $833.3M (51%) came from the US & Canada. 2 films of the top 10 report no US & Canada figure.
4 of 24 films crossed $100M and took $1.4B between them, 82% of the total. 13 films, 54% of the list, earned under $10M.
November releases took the most, $579.8M from 1 film, led by Monsters, Inc. (2001). September was the quietest month ($1.2M). Each column is a release month and links to that month's chart.
Of these 10 years, 2001 earned the most: $1.6B from 24 films, led by Monsters, Inc. (2001).
| Year | Films | Worldwide | Change | Biggest film |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 9 films | 9 | $53.3M | – | FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) $32.7M |
| 1993 10 films · +140% | 10 | $128M | +140% | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) $107.8M |
| 1994 4 films · +676% | 4 | $993.1M | +676% | The Lion King (1994) $979.2M |
| 1995 9 films · −20% | 9 | $792.8M | −20% | Toy Story (1995) $394.4M |
| 1996 6 films · −46% | 6 | $431.6M | −46% | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) $325.3M |
| 1997 8 films · −57% | 8 | $185M | −57% | Anastasia (1997) $139.8M |
| 1998 9 films · +549% | 9 | $1.2B | +549% | A Bug's Life (1998) $363.3M |
| 1999 7 films · +2% | 7 | $1.2B | +2% | Toy Story 2 (1999) $497.4M |
| 2000 19 films · +10% | 19 | $1.4B | +10% | Dinosaur (2000) $349.8M |
| 2001 24 films · +22% | 24 | $1.6B | +22% | Monsters, Inc. (2001) $579.8M |
English-language animation films took $1B across 10 films, 64% of the total, ahead of Japanese-language animation films ($90.6M) and German-language animation films ($15.5M).
Every year from 1938 to 2026 with its total and its biggest film. 2019 leads with $7.5B, led by The Lion King (2019).
The chart's numbers in short: the #1 film, the total, the billion-dollar hits and the US & Canada share, answered from the same 24 films as the chart.
Monsters, Inc. (2001) leads with $579.8M worldwide, $290.6M of it in the US & Canada. Next come Shrek (2001) at $489M and Blood: The Last Vampire (2001) at $186.1M.
24 animation films released in 2001 report a worldwide gross, $1.6B in all, or $68.7M per film on average. 2000 releases took $1.4B.
None. 4 films crossed $100 million, led by Monsters, Inc. (2001) with $579.8M.
Films are ranked by lifetime worldwide gross in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation, and grouped by their release date in 2001. The figures are the reported box office grosses in our database. A gross that looks misattributed, such as one figure shared by two unrelated films or a blockbuster total on an obscure title, is left out rather than shown as a fact.
Grosses change while films are in theaters and whenever a new figure is reported; this chart reads the latest numbers in our database, so an older film can still move after a re-release.