15 Most Profitable Movies Of All Time
10. Frozen 2 (2019)
When Frozen came out in 2013, it smashed all kinds of records and drove parents around the world insane with the 3,000th playing of "Let it Be." The movie was a massive hit, and it did something that Disney only did once before; it earned itself a sequel.
To be clear, Disney (not Pixar) has been making sequels for decades, but they were all released direct-to-video, not theatrically. Frozen 2 is only the second theatrical sequel to come from Walt Disney Animation Studios; Disney changed its strategy, and for a very good reason: money.
The first Frozen film pulled in $1.430 billion, and that's a lot of money for a Disney animated film. Making sequels made good economic sense, so Frozen 2 got the green light, and it performed even better than its predecessor in terms of money earned and the profits made.
Frozen 2 cost Disney around $167 million to produce, and it had a fairly high break-even point, but that didn't matter. The movie made $1.476 billion at the global box office, which earned the studio a hefty profit of just under $599 million. Disney hasn't confirmed another sequel, but with those margins, it's only a matter of time.