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Pixar's most and least successful movies at the box office, ranked
Business Insider
John Lynch
With the release of its 17th film, "Finding Dory," on June 17, Pixar will likely continue the box-office domination that began with the release of its first film, "Toy Story," in 1995.
Though each Pixar film released has made the studio a substantial net profit, not every movie has lived up to the immense success of some of the company's true blockbuster hits.
Using Box Office Mojo's and The Numbers' sales and production statistics for each film, Business Insider has ranked all 16 Pixar movies so far by their inflation-adjusted net profit, to keep things on an even playing field (so, subtracting budget from box-office gross) to determine which film was the most financially successful of its time. (The formula doesn't take into account marketing and other costs, however, so net profits are actually likely smaller.)
Accordingly, we adjusted all global box-office receipts and budgets for inflation through 2016 using the US inflation calculator.
Read on to see which Pixar film came out on top, and which landed at the bottom of the heap:
1. Finding Nemo
2. Toy Story 3
3. Inside Out
4. The Incredibles
5. Up
6. Monsters Inc.
7. Monsters University
8. Toy Story 2
9. Ratatouille
10. Toy Story
11. Cars
12. Cars 2
13. Wall-E
14. Brave
15. A Bug's Life
16. The Good Dinosaur
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gal...t-the-box-office-ranked/ss-AAh7HIw?li=BBnb2gh
Business Insider
John Lynch
With the release of its 17th film, "Finding Dory," on June 17, Pixar will likely continue the box-office domination that began with the release of its first film, "Toy Story," in 1995.
Though each Pixar film released has made the studio a substantial net profit, not every movie has lived up to the immense success of some of the company's true blockbuster hits.
Using Box Office Mojo's and The Numbers' sales and production statistics for each film, Business Insider has ranked all 16 Pixar movies so far by their inflation-adjusted net profit, to keep things on an even playing field (so, subtracting budget from box-office gross) to determine which film was the most financially successful of its time. (The formula doesn't take into account marketing and other costs, however, so net profits are actually likely smaller.)
Accordingly, we adjusted all global box-office receipts and budgets for inflation through 2016 using the US inflation calculator.
Read on to see which Pixar film came out on top, and which landed at the bottom of the heap:
1. Finding Nemo
2. Toy Story 3
3. Inside Out
4. The Incredibles
5. Up
6. Monsters Inc.
7. Monsters University
8. Toy Story 2
9. Ratatouille
10. Toy Story
11. Cars
12. Cars 2
13. Wall-E
14. Brave
15. A Bug's Life
16. The Good Dinosaur
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gal...t-the-box-office-ranked/ss-AAh7HIw?li=BBnb2gh
Of course, I keep forgeting Dreamworks Animation Studios created Monsters vs. Aliens too. So not only did that movie not belong on the list but it was made completely outside of Disney's control. Now where are my memory pills? 
