The following is a list of the 10 highest-grossing animated feature films first released in 2023.
Box office records • 2023 is the first year since 2019 to have an animated film gross over $1 billion. •
The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the first film based on a video game, and the 52nd film overall, to gross $1 billion worldwide. It set a number of other box office records: • The film surpassed 2019's
Frozen II as having the
highest-grossing opening worldwide for an
animated film, grossing $375.6 million. • The film achieved the second highest-grossing opening weekend in the US and Canada for an animated film behind
Incredibles 2, earning $146 million in a 3-day frame and $204 million in a 5-day frame over Easter weekend. • It set the record for the biggest five-day opening weekend (for films opening on Wednesday) in North America, surpassing
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). • It set the record for
Illumination's biggest opening, surpassing
Despicable Me 2 (2013). • It became the
highest-grossing animated film since the
COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, surpassing
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022). • In China,
Suzume became the highest-grossing anime film. •
The First Slam Dunk also set Chinese box office records for the highest pre-sales for an animated import, and the largest
IMAX opening weekend for a foreign animated film. •
Elemental set the record as the best highest-grossing for an animated film distributor by
Disney with a gross of $496.4 million worldwide
released during the COVID-19 pandemic, surpassing the 2021 film
Encanto. • The
Spider-Man franchise became
the third film franchise to gross $10 billion with the release of
Across the Spider-Verse. • With a $120.5 million opening weekend in the United States, it is the third most successful opening weekend for any
Spider-Man and Sony film, behind
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and
Spider-Man 3 (2007). • It became the highest grossing animated film distributed by
Sony Pictures surpassing
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. •
Across the Spider-Verse also became
Sony Pictures Animation's highest-grossing film, surpassing
The Smurfs (2011). •
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem set the record as the highest-grossing for an animated film distributor by
Paramount Pictures and
Nickelodeon Movies domestically with a gross of $152.9 million worldwide, surpassing the 2004 film
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. ==See also==