#1 of 25 2026 · Animation, Adventure
$1.1B worldwide · 32% of the chart's total
Toy Story 5 (2026) is the highest-grossing animation movie released in 2026 so far, with $1.1B worldwide, ahead of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) at $1B and Minions & Monsters (2026) at $523.6M. 25 animation films released in 2026 report a worldwide gross, $3.6B in all, 42% of it from the US & Canada. 2 films crossed $1 billion and 6 crossed $100 million. Releases from the same days of 2025 (Jan 1 to Sep 29, 2025) have taken $3.9B, though they have had longer to earn. By language, English leads with $3.5B across 12 animation releases.
#1 of 25 2026 · Animation, Adventure
$1.1B worldwide · 32% of the chart's total
Toy Story 5 (2026) leads with $1.1B, 32% of the total. The top 5 together took $3.3B, 92% of what all 25 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 2026.
Jun 19, 2026 US and Canada: $480.2M Rest of the world: $664.3M Worldwide: $1.1B
Jul 1, 2026 US and Canada: $183.2M Rest of the world: $340.4M Worldwide: $523.6M
Mar 6, 2026 US and Canada: $166M Rest of the world: $223.7M Worldwide: $389.7M
Feb 13, 2026 US and Canada: $103.3M Rest of the world: $92M Worldwide: $195.4M
Aug 28, 2026 US and Canada: $55.3M Rest of the world: $27.1M Worldwide: $82.4M
Jan 16, 2026 US and Canada: $2M Rest of the world: $5.9M Worldwide: $7.9M
May 1, 2026 US and Canada: $5.6M Rest of the world: $965.5K Worldwide: $6.6M
Mar 20, 2026 US and Canada: $2.9M Rest of the world: $2.6M Worldwide: $5.5M
Feb 6, 2026 US and Canada: $629K Rest of the world: $1.6M Worldwide: $2.3M
Jun 5, 2026 US and Canada: $81.2K Rest of the world: $1.9M Worldwide: $2M
Jan 30, 2026 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M
May 27, 2026 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $883.1K
Sep 26, 2026 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $751.4K
Jan 16, 2026 US and Canada: $695.3K Rest of the world: $46.3K Worldwide: $741.6K
Apr 10, 2026 US and Canada: $112.2K Rest of the world: $23.8K Worldwide: $136K
Jun 26, 2026 US and Canada: $56.4K Rest of the world: $11.2K Worldwide: $67.6K
Jun 5, 2026 US and Canada: $55.7K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $55.7K
May 15, 2026 US and Canada: $26.7K Rest of the world: $13.3K Worldwide: $40K Of the top 10, Animal Farm (2026) earned the biggest share at home (85% in the US & Canada), while Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (2026) made 94% of its gross abroad. Across all 25 films, $1.5B (42%) came from the US & Canada.
6 of 25 films crossed $100M and took $3.4B between them, 96% of the total. 17 films, 68% of the list, earned under $10M.
June releases took the most, $1.1B from 4 films, led by Toy Story 5 (2026). January was the quietest month ($12M). Each column is a release month and links to that month's chart.
Of these 10 years, 2019 earned the most: $7.5B from 115 films, led by The Lion King (2019). 2026 took $3.6B. 2026 is still running, so its figure is marked as so far.
| Year | Films | Worldwide | Change | Biggest film |
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| 2017 112 films | 112 | $4.6B | – | Despicable Me 3 (2017) $1B |
| 2018 123 films · +12% | 123 | $5.2B | +12% | Incredibles 2 (2018) $1.2B |
| 2019 115 films · +46% | 115 | $7.5B | +46% | The Lion King (2019) $1.7B |
| 2020 79 films · −83% | 79 | $1.3B | −83% | Jiang Ziya (2020) $240.6M |
| 2021 87 films · +46% | 87 | $1.8B | +46% | Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2021) $485.5M |
| 2022 84 films · +3% | 84 | $1.9B | +3% | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) $405.4M |
| 2023 79 films · +16% | 79 | $2.2B | +16% | Migration (2023) $300.2M |
| 2024 102 films · +197% | 102 | $6.5B | +197% | Inside Out 2 (2024) $1.7B |
| 2025 57 films · −4% | 57 | $6.3B | −4% | Ne Zha 2 (2025) $2.3B |
| 2026 25 films · −44% | 25 | $3.6B so far | −44% | Toy Story 5 (2026) $1.1B |
English-language animation films took $3.5B across 12 films, 99% of the total, ahead of Japanese-language animation films ($23M) and Chinese-language animation films ($5.6M).
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 25 films as the chart.
Toy Story 5 (2026) leads with $1.1B worldwide, $480.2M of it in the US & Canada. Next come The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) at $1B and Minions & Monsters (2026) at $523.6M. Films released in this period are still earning, so the order can change.
25 animation films released in 2026 report a worldwide gross, $3.6B in all so far, or $142.1M per film on average.
2 films crossed $1 billion worldwide: Toy Story 5 (2026) and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026). 6 crossed $100 million.
Films are ranked by lifetime worldwide gross in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation, and grouped by their release date in 2026. 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.
2026 is still running: new releases join the chart once they report a gross, and films in theaters climb as their weekly figures come in, so the ranking moves until the period is over.