Finding Nemo
2 Fast 2 Furious
Hulk
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
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Brother Bear
The Cat in the Hat
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
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Theatrical releases[]
Feature films[]
- February 7 - Deliver Us from Eva (Focus Features)
- February 14 - The Guru
- February 21 - The Life of David Gale
- April 4 - The Guys (Focus Features)
- April 18 - The Whackems: One Big Movie
- May 9 - The Shape of Things (Focus Features)
- May 23 - Bruce Almighty
- May 30 - Finding Nemo (Disney/Pixar)
- June 6 - 2 Fast 2 Furious
- June 13 - Rugrats Go Wild (Paramount/Nickelodeon)
- June 20 - Hulk
- July 2 - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (DreamWorks Pictures) and Swimming Pool (Focus Features)
- July 18 - Johnny English and Jose Maldonado: The Biggest Movie Ever (Fox)
- July 25 - Seabiscuit
- August 1 - American Wedding
- September 19 - Magina
- September 26 - The Rundown
- October 3 - Lost in Translation (Focus Features)
- October 10 - Intolerable Cruelty
- October 17 - Tony Tom-Tom's Courier Service and Sylvia (Focus Features)
- October 28 - Long Time Dead (Focus Features)
- November 1 - Brother Bear (Disney)
- November 14 - Love Actually and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- November 21 - The Cat in the Hat and 21 Grams (Focus Features)
- December 5 - Honey
- December 19 - Dusk and Dawn (DreamWorks Pictures)
- December 25 - Peter Pan
Short films[]
- November 18 - Cyclops Island
Television[]
- Planetokio, cancelled on the Gingo Lineup May 17
- Critter Mockers, premiered on the Gingo Lineup November 1
Home video releases[]
DVD & VHS releases[]
- November 4 - Finding Nemo
- November 18 - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
- December 9 - Jose Maldonado: The Biggest Movie Ever
Direct-to-video releases[]
- December 2 - The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
Video games[]
- Chrysocolla: Fallen Chaos, released on July 23 in the US
- Gabriel Garza: Coupled, released on September 23 in the US
- Chrysocolla: Battlefield Mayhem, released on November 25 in the US
Events[]
- April 17 - Universal Feature Animation officially becomes a fully CGI animation studio and abandons traditional animation in favor of computer animation.
Highest-grossing films of the year[]
| Rank | Title | Studio | Worldwide gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | New Line | $1,119,929,521 |
| 2 | Finding Nemo | Disney | $867,893,978 |
| 3 | The Matrix Reloaded | Warner Bros. | $742,128,461 |
| 4 | Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Disney | $654,264,015 |
| 5 | Bruce Almighty | Universal | $484,592,874 |
| 6 | The Last Samurai | Warner Bros. | $456,758,981 |
| 7 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Warner Bros. / Columbia | $433,371,112 |
| 8 | The Matrix Revolutions | Warner Bros. | $427,343,298 |
| 9 | X2 | Fox | $407,711,549 |
| 10 | Dusk and Dawn | DreamWorks | $351,284,906 |
Highest-grossing animated films of the year[]
| Rank | Title | Studio | Worldwide gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finding Nemo | Disney | $867,863,978 |
| 2 | Dusk and Dawn | DreamWorks | $351,284,906 |
| 3 | Jose Maldonado: The Biggest Movie Ever | Fox | $343,884,547 |
| 4 | Brother Bear | Disney | $250,397,798 |
| 5 | The Whackems: One Big Movie | Universal | $101,500,000 |
| 6 | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | DreamWorks | $80,767,884 |
| 7 | Magina | Universal | $78,124,042 |
| 8 | Piglet's Big Movie | Disney | $62,870,546 |
| 9 | Rugrats Go Wild | Paramount | $55,405,066 |
| 10 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Warner Bros. | $54,540,662 |
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