Evolution of the Highest-Grossing Animated Movies Ever + Movie Review: The Long Walk + Trailer Park: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Movie Mike's Movie Podcast
Nashville Podcast Network
5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Mike gives a history of the only 10 films that have held the title of the highest-grossing animated film of all time. He goes back to 1937 to 2025 to share how each movie became the highest grossing. He also talks about the only movies to reach the billionaire mark in the post-covid box office. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about The Long Walk. It’s based on a Stephen King novel about a group of teenage boys who compete in an annual contest known where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot. Mike talks how it was more emotional than he was expecting, the standout performances and how this movie could be turned into a podcast. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and how do we feel about quick sequels? In this trailer, Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship with consequences that could change the world as he knows it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. Did you know that only 10 movies in |
| 0:09.1 | history have ever held the crown of the highest grossing animated movie of all time? |
| 0:14.2 | I'm going to tell you what those 10 movies are, how they did it, and how some of these |
| 0:18.5 | movies almost never saw the light a day. |
| 0:26.2 | In the movie review, the long walk, the horror movie I've been waiting for in September. |
| 0:30.2 | It's about a group of teenage boys who compete in this brutal walking competition. |
| 0:33.4 | If they slow down and stop, they get taken out. |
| 0:37.2 | And in the trailer park, we'll talk about 28 years later, the Bone Temple, |
| 0:40.3 | how soon is too soon for a sequel? |
| 0:41.8 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:43.1 | Thank you for being subscribed. |
| 0:45.0 | Shout out to the Monday morning movie crew. |
| 0:47.2 | And now, let's talk movies. |
| 0:52.8 | From the Nashville podcast network, this is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | These 10 movies are the only ones to ever hold the title of the highest grossing animated movie of all time. So I want to go through all 10 movies, how much they cost to make, how much they ended up making, |
| 1:06.0 | and then the movie that came after them that took that title from them. So let's go all the way back to |
| 1:12.3 | the beginning. The first movie to ever hold this title was from 1937, Snow White and the Seven |
| 1:18.0 | Dwarves from Disney. It cost about $1.4 to $1.5 million to make and ended up making $8.5 million |
| 1:26.0 | worldwide. It was the world's first ever fully animated feature film. |
| 1:31.2 | You think back to animation back in the early 30s, it was just cartoons. And I called them cartoons. |
| 1:37.3 | And I hate it when people refer to animated movies now as cartoons because that implies that they are so simplistic. |
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