Monsters, Inc. earned approximately $62.6 million during its opening weekend in the United States and Canada. That result made the film a major box-office launch for Pixar and Disney in November 2001.
The opening weekend measured the film’s first Friday-through-Sunday period in its domestic market. It does not represent the movie’s worldwide total or its complete theatrical run. Monsters, Inc. went on to earn hundreds of millions of dollars internationally and became one of the year’s prominent animated releases.
Box-office figures are often reported in slightly different forms because studios and reference works may round totals. The commonly cited opening-weekend figure for the film is $62.6 million. Its strong performance also reflected the established audience Pixar had built through Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, and Toy Story 2.