‘Inside Out 2’ has one billion reasons to feel good
The Pixar sequel joins an elite club as it paces the $1B mark while keeping the ‘Quiet Place’ prequel at bay.
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of June 28-30, 2024.
1. INSIDE OUT 2
Weekend gross: $57.4M
Total domestic gross: $469.3M
Last weekend: 1st
Percent drop: 43
It’s wild to think that Inside Out 2 entered its opening weekend surrounded by questions about whether it could restore Pixar’s box office glory. With its third weekend now in the books, it’s beyond clear that Inside Out 2 is a runaway box office phenomenon.
Take a look at the sequel’s most recent accomplishments:
It’s Pixar’s third biggest domestic hit, with its $469.3 million trailing Finding Dory’s $486.3 million and Incredibles 2’s $608.6 million.
It’s Pixar’s fifth biggest worldwide hit, with its $1.015 billion not too far away from Finding Dory’s $1.025 billion.
It’s the first film to break the $1 billion barrier since Barbie did so last summer. (Barbie finished at $1.432 billion. Oppenheimer just missed the $1 billion mark, winding up at $976.1 million.)
It currently sits at No. 24 all-time in North America and should easily fly past the $500 million mark.
To put into perspective just how big of a hit Inside Out 2 is for Pixar combined with how much they needed a hit like this, the five films released by the studio since the pandemic began (Onward, Soul, Luca, Turning Red, Lightyear and Elemental) grossed a worldwide total of $1,020,409,615. Inside Out needs just $5,603,572 to pass that entire haul.
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