The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
Horton Hears a Who!
Cinnamon the Movie
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Bolt
The Tale of Despereaux
Theatrical releases[]
Feature films[]
- January 11 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
- January 25 - Untraceable
- February 8 - Caution: Ego Hazard (20th Century Fox/Aroba), Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins and In Bruges (Focus Features)
- February 14 - Definitely, Maybe
- February 29 - The Other Boleyn Girl (Focus Features)
- March 7 - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus Features)
- March 14 - Doomsday (Rogue Pictures) and Horton Hears a Who! (20th Century Fox)
- March 28 - Cinnamon the Movie
- April 5 - Leatherheads
- April 15 - Baby Mama
- April 18 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- May 16 - Metroid (Universal/Nintendo)
- May 30 - The Strangers (Rogue Pictures)
- June 6 - Kung Fu Panda (DWA/Paramount Pictures)
- June 13 - The Incredible Hulk
- June 27 - Wanted and WALL-E (Disney/Pixar)
- July 2 - Swapped
- July 11 - Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- July 18 - Mamma Mia! The Movie
- August 1 - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- August 22 - Death Race
- August 29 - Hamlet 2 (Focus Features)
- September 12 - Burn After Reading (Focus Features)
- September 23 - Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Movie
- October 3 - Flash of Genius
- October 10 - The Express
- October 31 - Changeling
- November 7 - Role Models and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (DWA/Paramount Pictures)
- November 21 - Bolt (Disney)
- November 26 - Crystal (20th Century Fox)
- November 28 - Milk (Focus Features)
- December 5 - Frost/Nixon
- December 19 - The Tale of Despereaux
Short films[]
- October 14 - Déjà Grape
- November 9 - Secrets of the Furious Five
Television[]
- April 26 - The Mighty B! premieres on Nickelodeon
- June 7 - Computeropolis: Adventures of Peri and Nicky premieres on Gingo
- November 29 - The Penguins of Madagascar premieres on Nickelodeon
Home video releases[]
DVD and Blu-ray releases[]
- April 22 - Kirby
- October 14 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie and Metroid
- November 9 - Kung Fu Panda
- December 2 - Swapped
- December 22 - Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Movie
Events[]
- Universal Studios and Illumination announce a deal which positioned Illumination as NBCUniversal’s family entertainment arm within its own feature animation field that would produce one to three films a year starting in 2010, March
- Illumination begins production on their first CG feature film Despicable Me, November
Highest-grossing films of the year[]
| Rank | Title | Studio | Worldwide gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metroid | Universal | $1,130,493,204 |
| 2 | The Dark Knight | Warner Bros. | $997,000,000 |
| 3 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Paramount | $790,653,942 |
| 4 | Kung Fu Panda | $631,744,560 | |
| 5 | Hancock | Sony | $629,443,428 |
| 6 | Mamma Mia! | Universal | $609,841,637 |
| 7 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | Paramount | $603,900,354 |
| 8 | Quantum of Solace | Sony / MGM | $589,580,482 |
| 9 | Iron Man | Paramount | $585,366,247 |
| 10 | WALL-E | Disney | $521,311,860 |
Highest-grossing animated films of the year[]
| Rank | Title | Studio | Worldwide gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kung Fu Panda | Paramount / DreamWorks | $631,744,560 |
| 2 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | $603,900,354 | |
| 3 | WALL-E | Disney / Pixar | $521,311,860 |
| 4 | Crystal | 20th Century Fox | $505,143,708 |
| 5 | Metroid | Universal | $445,523,445 |
| 6 | Swapped | Universal | $376,859,042 |
| 7 | Caution: Ego Hazard | 20th Century Fox / Aroba | $361,320,590 |
| 8 | Bolt | Disney | $309,979,994 |
| 9 | Horton Hears a Who! | 20th Century Fox / Blue Sky | $297,138,014 |
| 10 | Ponyo | Studio Ghibli | $201,750,937 |
Trivia[]
- The cancelled Universal animated movie The Snow Queen was planned to be released in 2008.
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