There's little doubt that Toy Story 3 has become an unqualified success, and has now overtaken Finding Nemo's worldwide gross of $867 million to become Pixar's most successful movie ever at the box office. Its gross currently stands at $895 million, and as the movie is still to be released in some countries, it strongly suggest that by the end of its run it should have overtaken Shrek 2's $919 million to become the biggest animated movie ever.
Indeed, it's already that in the UK, where after only three weeks its gross now stands at £51.52 million, overtaking the previous animated box office champ, Shrek 2, which took $48.24 million in 2004. The movie now stands in 12th place on the UK all-time chart, and it's still going strong, taking more money in only three weekend than any film ever has before it, which means that it'll be sitting comfortably in the top 10, possibly near the top, before it leaves cinemas (Avatar had taken less by this point, but kept going for months, to end up way ahead of any other movie ever).
It certainly suggest those who said Pixar was foolish to make a threequel were very wrong indeed.
Although we haven't updated it with Toy Story 3, here's the infrographic on Pixar's astonishing worldwide box office success over the years, from this article we posted a few months ago.
