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#2,736 All-time worldwide
#77 2003 releases

Movie profile

The Animatrix

2003 · 102 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Animation Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $68.0M
Budget $5.0M
Gross minus budget $63.0M
ROI 13.60x

Domestic gross

$29.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$38.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$8.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Animatrix ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #2,736 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2003 releases #77 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2003. Studio / company #92 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #314 Animation of 920 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#2,733 Stalingrad 2013 · $68.1M #2,734 Frequency 2000 · $68.1M #2,735 Fearless 2006 · $68.1M #2,737 All About My Mother 1999 · $68.0M #2,738 Legion 2010 · $67.9M #2,739 Legionnaire 1998 · $67.9M

Quick answer

How did The Animatrix (2003) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Animatrix (2003) earned a reported $68.0M worldwide against a reported $5.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $63.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 13.60x. In this database it currently ranks #2,736 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #77 among 2003 releases.

Worldwide gross
$68,000,000
Budget
$5,000,000
Gross minus budget
$63,000,000
ROI
13.60x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 9, 2003
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures
Countries
JP, US, KR

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Studio / production companyWarner Bros. Pictures Release year chart2003 box office Genre chartAnimation Genre chartScience Fiction

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2003, The Animatrix is positioned in this dataset as a Animation, Science Fiction title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $68.0M, reported production budget is $5.0M, gross-minus-budget is $63.0M, ROI is 13.60x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,736 all-time in the current chart set and #77 among 2003 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.