Inside Out 2 Shatters Box Office Expectations with $155 Million, Biggest Debut Since Barbie
by Rebecca Rubin
June 16, 2024


Move over Anxiety, there’s a new dominant emotion at the box office: Joy!

Disney and Pixar‘s expressive animated sequel Inside Out 2 scored a mighty $155 million in its first weekend of release. It is now the biggest opening of the year.

It’s also the first movie since last July’s Barbie ($162 million) to debut above $100 million. Heading into the weekend, the follow-up film to 2015’s cerebral hit was projected to collect $80 million to $90 million.



Inside Out 2 also connected at the international box office with $140 million, enough to surpass Frozen 2 ($135 million) as the biggest overseas animated opening of all time. Globally, the movie has grossed $295 million to notch the title for biggest animated debut in like-for-like markets at current exchange rates.

It carries a $200 million production budget.






As this weekend’s only new release, Inside Out 2 had no trouble taking the box office crown from the previous champ, Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

The fourth installment in Sony’s buddy-cop comedy, starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, slid to second place with an impressive $33 million in its second weekend of release. So far, it has grossed $112 million in North America and $214.6 million globally.






Disney and 20th Century’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes climbed to third place with $5.2 million in its sixth weekend of release.

The fourth chapter in the Apes reboot franchise has earned $157.8 million domestically and $374.5 million worldwide to stand as the year’s fourth-highest-grossing movie.






Sony’s animated The Garfield Movie dropped to the No. 4 spot, as Inside Out 2 likely encroached on the same moviegoing demographic.

It brought in $5 million in its fourth outing, boosting its tally to $78 million in North America and $217 million globally. The film only cost $60 million to produce, so it’s a solid winner for Sony and Alcon Entertainment.






Paramount’s kids film IF added $3.4 million in its fifth weekend of release. It started slow but has since rebounded with $100.9 million domestically and $173 million worldwide.

Yet the studio spent $110 million to make IF, so the film still requires outsized returns to justify its budget.

https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/inside-out-2-shatters-box-office-expectations-biggest-opening-weekend-2024-1236039389/






June 14-16, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Inside Out 2 $155,000,000
2. Bad Boys: Ride or Die $33,000,000 / $112,240,120
3. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes $5,200,000 / $157,804,082
4. The Garfield Movie $5,000,000 / $78,524,610
5. The Watchers $3,665,000 / $13,665,279
6. IF $3,450,000 / $100,901,432
7. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga $2,425,000 / $63,125,707
8. The Fall Guy $1,500,000 / $87,906,300
9. The Strangers: Chapter 1 $760,000 / $33,896,299
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (re-release)
$632,910 / $3,089,655

Inside Out 2 Scores $100 Million in Sensational Second Weekend
by Rebecca Rubin
June 25, 2024


Paging Joy! Pixar‘s Inside Out 2 has electrified the box office again, scoring a sensational $100 million in its second weekend of release. Ticket sales declined just 35% from its mighty $154 million debut, resulting in the seventh-biggest sophomore outing in history and best ever for an animated film.

So far, Disney and Pixar’s family-friendly sequel has grossed $355 million in North America and $724 million globally. After eight days in theaters, Inside Out 2 surpassed Dune: Part II — which generated $282 million domestically and $711 million worldwide — as the biggest movie of the year.






The Bikeriders, directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy, fared the best of new releases. It opened in third place with $10 million from 2,642 venues.

It’s a decent start for an arthouse drama about a midwestern motorcycle club, except The Bikeriders carries a relatively sizable $35 million production budget.

Critics seemed to like it more than audiences; it landed an 82% on Rotten Tomatoes and “B” grade on CinemaScore.






Russell Crowe’s disturbing thriller The Exorcism, debuted in seventh place with a dismal $2.43 million from 2,240 theaters. Backed by Vertical and produced by Miramax, the story follows Crowe as an actor who begins to unravel while shooting a horror film, leading his estranged daughter to wonder if there’s something more sinister at play.

Critics and audiences rejected it as The Exorcism currently holds a 31% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a “D” CinemaScore.






The Exorcism landed ahead of June Squibb’s action-adventure Thelma, which collected $2.2 million from 1,290 theaters.

Magnolia is releasing the well-reviewed film, which stars the nonagenarian Squibb (who did most of her own stunts) as a feisty 93-year-old grandmother who gets conned by a phone scammer and sets out to reclaim what was taken from her.






Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die stayed in second place with an impressive $19 million from 3,781 locations in its third weekend of release.

The fourth installment in the buddy-cop comedy series, starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, has grossed $147 million in North America and $289.1 million globally.






Disney and 20th Century’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes swung to No. 4 with $3.6 million from 2,410 venues in its seventh weekend in theaters.

The fourth chapter in the Apes reboot franchise has earned $164 million domestically.






Sony’s animated The Garfield Movie rounded out the top five with $3.6 million from 3,013 theaters. After five weekends on the big screen, the cartooned adventure has generated $85 million in North America and $230 million worldwide.

The film only cost $60 million to produce, so it’s a solid winner for Sony and Alcon Entertainment.






In limited release, Yorgos Lanthimos’ surrealist comedy Kinds of Kindness grossed $350,000 from five locations (averaging $70,000 per screen).

According to Searchlight, it’s the year’s best limited opening and highest per-screen average to date. Frequent collaborators of the Greek filmmaker, such as Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn, star in Kinds of Kindness, which is described as a “triptych fable” and consists of three loosely connected stories about oddball characters.

Searchlight will add 500 screens next weekend before it opens nationwide on July 3.






A24’s coming-of-age story Janet Planet collected $49,684 from two screens (averaging $24,824 per location).

Playwright Annie Baker directed the film in her feature debut, starring Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler as mother and daughter in Massachusetts during the summer of 1991.

It’ll continue to expand its theatrical footprint on June 28.

https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/inside-out-2-box-office-record-second-weekend-1236045165/






June 21-23, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Inside Out 2 $100,000,000 / $355,183,116
2. Bad Boys: Ride or Die $18,775,000 / $146,910,891
3. The Bikeriders $10,000,000
4. The Garfield Movie $3,600,000 / $85,142,251
5. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes $3,600,000 / $164,396,089
6. IF $2,775,000 / $106,613,104
7. The Exorcism $2,439,000
8. Thelma $2,212,350
9. The Watchers $1,940,000 / $17,748,281
10. GHOST: Rite Here Rite Now $2,647,702

Inside Out 2 Outpaces Barbie to Reach $1 Billion Worldwide
by Erik Childress
July 1, 2024


We are just 19 days into the release of Inside Out 2 and the only numbers we can compare it with are the best of all time.

$57.4 million from Friday to Sunday represents the ninth-best third weekend of all time.



$469.3 million is the eighth-best 17-day total in history, passing up last year’s Barbie, which had $459.3 million after a $53 million third weekend.

Inside Out 2 is outpacing Barbie for the vicinity of $650 million domestic, and this weekend it surpassed the billion-dollar global mark, becoming the 54th film to do so and the seventh film to achieve it since the pandemic.





A Quiet Place: Day One has nothing to worry about, though, finishing its debut weekend in second place behind one of the biggest movies of all time.

It fulfilled the consistent promise of these films, surpassing both the $50 million and $47 million openings of the first two. Day One’s $53 million start is a solid one, considering its $67 million price tag; it’s the most expensive of the lot after the $17 million of the original and a jump to $61 million for the sequel.





Opening in third place is the first installment of Kevin Costner’s self-financed multi-chapter Western epic, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1.

Warner Bros. decided to keep press out of screenings outside of New York and Los Angeles. Between those who saw it at Cannes and caught up with it recently, we can see why, as it’s currently Rotten on the Tomatometer.

It isn’t doing as poorly as The Postman (14%) but it’s also nowhere near those of his directorial efforts like Open Range (Certified Fresh at 79%) or his Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves (Certified Fresh at 87%).



Horizon opened to just $11 million with a budget of either $50 million or as much as $100 million, depending on who you ask.

Unless there is a surge of support for a film the studio should want to make available at home before Chapter 2 opens on August 16, the film is probably headed for the $30-40 million range.





Fourth weekend, fourth place for Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which added $10.3 million for a haul now of $165.2 million.

It is going to be a very close call for Ride or Die to reach $200 million domestic. If not, we should definitely have our third $190 million-range film of 2024. The film is the sixth of the year to surpass $300 million worldwide ($332 million to date).

By this time last year, there were eight, with Elemental eventually getting there. In 2023, 17 films crossed that threshold globally.





Bollywood also released their latest three-hour action epic and it cracked the top five. Kalki 2898 AD grossed $5.5 million over the weekend, and that was after $5.3 million on Thursday alone.

That is almost as much as Horizon made in three days and what Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders has grossed in 10. The biker drama fell 66% from last week to just $3.3 million and has a riding total of $16.2 million to date.

The Indian rom-com, Jatt & Juliet 3 also cracked the top 10 with $1.3 million.





Sony’s other summer hit, The Garfield Movie, grossed $2 million to bring its total to over $89 million domestic and $240 million worldwide.

One of the year’s other global $300+ million grossers, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, finally dropped out of the top five to eighth place with $1.7 million. Its domestic total now stands at $168 million. Worldwide it is over $389 million and is right around its profit margin.





Searchlight expanded Yorgo Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness into 490 theaters this weekend and it grossed $1.5 million.

Last week’s darling, Thelma, just fell out of the top 10 with $1.32 million, a very small drop, bringing its total to $5.1 million. It is now the fifth-highest grossing film in Magnolia Pictures’ history.

Finally, Crunchyroll’s anime feature Blue Lock The Movie – Episode Nagi made a million bucks in 857 theaters.

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/weekend-box-office-inside-out-2-outpaces-barbie-to-reach-1-billion-worldwide/





June 28-30, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Inside Out 2 $57,520,208 / $469,426,251
2. A Quiet Place: Day One $52,202,495
3. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 $11,052,561
4. Bad Boys: Ride or Die $10,342,650 / $165,257,66
5. Kalki 2898 AD $5,475,000
6. The Bikeriders $3,307,405 / $16,212,170
7. The Garfield Movie $2,019,295 / $89,659,314
8. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes $1,786,613 / $168,163,179
9. Kinds of Kindness $1,576,628 / $2,089,390
10. Jatt & Juliet 3 $1,515,000