![]() The success of The Lion King makes perfect sense to me. Only with Toy Story 3, a sequel to a beloved franchise, benefitting from both 3D premiums and considerably higher standard ticket prices, did Pixar get past Nemo's behemothic $340 million North American and $865 M worldwide hauls. Still, the domestic box office returns never got as high as they did on Finding Nemo. Pixar could not be accused of creative complacency, with the hits The Incredibles and Cars giving way to the most original and decorated stretch in the studio's history. Disney's 1990s reign of hit musicals abruptly came to an end and saw films like Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules unable to recreate the same degree of magic. Both studios naturally expected growth to continue, which it did not. Both served as the high point (certainly commercially, arguably critically) for animation studios in the midst of historic hot streaks. Both are animal tales that find a young male character losing a parent and then losing his way. ![]() Some pretty clear parallels exist between Finding Nemo and The Lion King. When accounting for soaring admission prices, only six films this century have grossed more, all but one of them ( Avatar) sequels or starring pre-existing characters. Ignoring inflation, Nemo passed The Lion King to become the top-grossing animated film in domestic history.Īdjusting for inflation, Nemo still outgrosses every Pixar film through Brave, selling even more tickets than the enormously well-attended Toy Story 3. ![]() The general public's reception, meanwhile, left no room for doubt. The reviews couldn't handily exceed all of Pixar's acclaimed previous efforts, but they were about as overwhelmingly favorable as those of the first two Toy Story movies and slightly better than those given to A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc. The 100-minute comedic undersea adventure was, by a narrow margin, Pixar's longest film to date. All of these factors hit fever pitch with the theatrical release of Finding Nemo, the studio's fifth film, in late May 2003. ![]() The movies were getting longer and technically more sophisticated. In the first several years of Pixar Animation Studios feature filmmaking, everything was looking up. ![]()
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