Animated/VFX Pics Made 2018 a Record Year at the Box Office

As we get ready to ring in the new year, it’s good to know that 2018 is going down as the largest grossing year at the domestic box office, with an estimated total of $11.5 billion in tickets sales. The previous record was 2016’s $11.37 billion total. Of course, most of the revenue was generated by animated features such as Disney/Pixar’s Incredibles 2, Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet, Universal’s The Grinch and Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and CG-effects movies such as Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther and The Avengers: Infinity War and Universal’s Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom.

This is what the 2018 Top 10 Chart looks like as we enter a brand new year of animated and vfx-driven features:

Updated on Dec. 31,2018

VFX Movies:

1. Black Panther                                                         $700,059,566
2. The Avengers: Infinity War                                 $678,815,482
3. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom                      $416,769,345
4. Deadpool 2                                                               $318,491,426
5. Mission: Impossible – Fallout                            $220,159,104
6. Ant-Man and the Wasp                                         $216,648,740
7. Solo: A Star Wars Story                                         $213,767,512
8. Venom                                                                         $213,205,181
9. Aquaman                                                                    $189,375,000
10. A Quiet Place                                                            $188,024,361

Animated Movies

1. Incredibles 2                                                               $608,581,744
2. Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch                                               $265,499,485
3. Ralph Breaks the Internet                                      $175,713,583
4. Hotel Transylvania 3                                                 $167,510,016
5. Peter Rabbit (live-action/animated)                  $115,253,424
6. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse                      $104,148,730
7. Christopher Robin (live-action/animated)      $99,215,042
8. Mary Poppins Returns (live-action/animated)$98,929,758
9. Smallfoot                                                                       $82,624,719
10. Sherlock Gnomes                                                         $43,242,871
11. Paddington 2 (live-action/animated)                  $40,891,591
12. Isle of Dogs                                                                      $32,015,231
13. Teen Titans! Go to the Movies                                 $29,790,236

Source: Boxofficemojo.com