{"id":38891,"date":"2025-05-22T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/?p=38891"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:24:07","slug":"the-top-five-highest-grossing-disney-classic-animation-remakes-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/the-top-five-highest-grossing-disney-classic-animation-remakes-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top Five Highest-Grossing Disney Classic Animation Remakes Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This Memorial Day weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/weekend-preview-mission-impossible-and-lilo-stitch-tracking-for-memorial-day-record\/\">could be the top-grossing at the box office of all time<\/a>, thanks in large part to a duo of high-powered blockbuster releases, one of which\u2014Disney&#8217;s <em>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em>\u2014is on track to secure one of the highest, if not <em>the<\/em> highest, domestic opening weekend gross of 2025 so far, a title that currently belongs to <em>A Minecraft Movie <\/em>($162.7M). Even if <em>Lilo &amp; Stitch <\/em>debuts on the lower end of our predicted three-day range of $160M &#8211; $185M, its opening weekend gross will be higher than the entire domestic run of its animated predecessor ($145.7M)&#8230; and tens of millions higher than 2025&#8217;s other Disney remake, <em>Snow White<\/em>, which opened to $42.2M in March ($86.9M domestic total, as of 5\/22\/25). Below, the company <em>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em> will keep if it lands among the top five domestic highest-grossing remakes of Disney animated classics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-transistor wp-block-embed-transistor\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Memorial Day Box Office Preview | CineLATAM\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/share.transistor.fm\/e\/87b4d148#?secret=8umVEmCllK\" data-secret=\"8umVEmCllK\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-the-lion-king\">1. THE LION KING<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Release Date: 7\/19\/19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Opening: $191.7M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Total: $543.6M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Total: $1.11B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Worldwide Total: $1.66B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019 represents the high-water mark for Disney&#8217;s batch of remakes of its animated classics, with four such films\u2014<em>The Lion King<\/em>, <em>Aladdin<\/em>, <em>Maleficent: Mistress of Evil<\/em>, and <em>Dumbo<\/em>\u2014opening in theaters for a combined in-year domestic total of $1.12B, just shy of 10 percent of the $11.4B earned by the entire domestic market that year. Disney would follow up 2019&#8217;s<em> The Lion King<\/em> with the 2024 prequel <em>Mufasa: The Lion King<\/em>, which earned 47 percent of what <em>The Lion King <\/em>did domestically: $254.5M compared to $543.6M. Until earlier this year, <em>The Lion King<\/em>&#8216;s $1.66B haul made it the tenth-largest global release of all time; it was pushed to number 11 by the Chinese animated smash hit <em>Ne Zha 2<\/em> ($1.89B).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE LION KING Official Teaser Trailer (2019) New Disney Movie HD\" width=\"798\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zlFtgXXAfps?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-beauty-and-the-beast\">2. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Release Date: 3\/17\/17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Opening: $174.7M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Total: $504M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Total: $851.6M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Worldwide Total: $1.35B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second-highest grossing film of 2017 both domestically and globally (in both cases trailing only <em>Star Wars: Episode VIII &#8211; The Last Jedi<\/em>), <em>Beauty and the Beast <\/em>holds the record for the highest-grossing non-animated musical of all time, a title that it&#8217;s so far been able to maintain despite last year&#8217;s <em>Wicked<\/em> ($437M domestic gross, $755.7M global gross) nipping at its heels. The film dominated an unusually robust Q1, which saw four other films\u2014<em>Logan<\/em>, <em>The Lego Batman Movie<\/em>, <em>The Boss Baby<\/em>, and <em>Kong: Skull Island<\/em>\u2014open above $50M domestically.  By comparison, 2016 saw only three Q1 releases\u2014<em>Deadpool<\/em>, <em>Zootopia<\/em>, and <em>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/em>\u2014open above $50M, and in 2018 that number was down to one: <em>Black Panther.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BEAUTY AND THE BEAST International Trailer (2017) Emma Watson Movie HD\" width=\"798\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PQBHofwMeEI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-the-jungle-book\">3. THE JUNGLE BOOK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Release Date: 4\/15\/16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Opening: $103.2M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Total: $364M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Total: $603.7M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Worldwide Total: $967.7M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disney&#8217;s <em>The Jungle Book<\/em> remake blew past expectations with a $100M-plus mid-April opening that was followed by modest holds well into the summer, putting to rest concerns that Disney&#8217;s Memorial Day weekend release of <em>Alice Through the Looking Glass<\/em> would have a dampening effect on holdover traffic. Ultimately, <em>The Jungle Book <\/em>came out on top, spending three weeks as the highest-grossing film in the domestic market and five weeks in the top five, with 3D surcharges emerging as a major factor in its successful theatrical run. <em>Alice<\/em> <em>Through the Looking Glass<\/em>, meanwhile, was trounced by <em>X-Men: Apocalypse<\/em> over the holiday weekend, opening to $26.8M and topping out at $77M\u2014less than <em>The Jungle Book&#8217;<\/em>s opening weekend haul. <em>The Jungle Book<\/em> contributed to a banner year for Disney, one in which they released every single one of the top five global releases and four of the top five domestic releases, with <em>The Jungle Book<\/em> coming in at number five in both cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE JUNGLE BOOK | Trailer 2 | Official Disney UK\" width=\"798\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_EN03fJIyY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4-alice-in-wonderland\">4. ALICE IN WONDERLAND<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Release Date: 3\/5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Opening: $116.1M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Total: $334.1M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Total: $691.2M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Worldwide Total: $1.02B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only the sixth film in history to gross over $1B globally during its original release,<em> Alice in Wonderland<\/em> is the film that kicked Disney&#8217;s interest in remaking its classic animated properties into high gear. The film could hardly have come out at a better time. The industry&#8217;s transition to digital projection technology, kicked off in earnest by the release of <em>Star Wars: Episode I &#8211; The Phantom Menace <\/em>roughly a decade prior, reached the point of no return as theaters rushed to upgrade their projectors before the December 2009 release of James Cameron&#8217;s <em>Avatar<\/em>. That film kicked off a near-mania for 3D that<em> Alice in Wonderland<\/em> was able to capitalize on when it came out roughly two and a half months later. By the time <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>&#8216;s sequel, <em>Alice Through the Looking Glass<\/em>, came out in 2016, the 3D craze had largely died down; <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/05\/x-men-apocalypse-alice-through-the-looking-glass-memorial-day-weekend-box-office-1201763668\/\">as reported by Deadline<\/a>, 71 percent of the first <em>Alice<\/em>&#8216;s domestic box office came from 3D tickets, while for <em>Alice Through the Looking Glass<\/em>&#8216; Memorial Day weekend opening that number was down to 41 percent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ALICE IN WONDERLAND | New Official Full Trailer (HQ) | Official Disney UK\" width=\"798\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9POCgSRVvf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-aladdin\">5. ALADDIN<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Release Date: 5\/24\/19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Opening: $91.5M (3-Day)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Domestic Total: $355.5M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Total: $271.4M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Worldwide Total: $569.6M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019 was a big year for Disney, one in which they released seven of the top ten domestic grossers, with one of the other three\u2014Sony&#8217;s <em>Spider-Man: Far From Home<\/em>\u2014benefiting from its inclusion in Disney&#8217;s MCU. In terms of remakes of Disney&#8217;s animated classics,<em> The Lion King<\/em> was 2019&#8217;s big headline, but Aladdin certainly didn&#8217;t disappoint. Its $91.5M 3-day ($116.8M four-day) opening made it the second-highest Memorial Day weekend opener for Disney at the time, trailing only <em>Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#8217;s End<\/em>. In 2023, it was pushed one more spot down the list by <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>&#8230; and it&#8217;s likely to slip down once more when <em>Lilo &amp; Stitch <\/em>opens this weekend. <em>Aladdin<\/em> was particularly strong in several international territories, including Japan, where it was the highest grosser of the year with $122.4M, and South Korea, at spot number four with $91M. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ALADDIN Trailer # 2 (NEW 2019) Will Smith, Disney Movie HD\" width=\"798\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r140FcYMFQ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Memorial Day weekend could be the top-grossing at the box office of all time, thanks in large part to a duo of high-powered blockbuster releases, one of which\u2014Disney&#8217;s Lilo &amp; Stitch\u2014is on track to secure one of the highest, if not the highest, domestic opening weekend gross of 2025 so far, a title that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":38591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[1487,836,838,840,616],"class_list":["post-38891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition-features","category-numbers","tag-aladdin","tag-alice-in-wonderland","tag-beauty-and-the-beast","tag-the-jungle-book","tag-the-lion-king"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}