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Inside Out 2
The domestic box office is expected to be between $140 million and $150 million in its opening weekend. - This box office performance would make it the best opening weekend box office so far in 2024, by a significant margin.
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Inside Out 2
It could also be Pixar’s second-highest opening weekend ever.
Inside Out 2 Expected to have one of the highest-grossing opening weekends of all time for Pixar films, the sequel follows the inner emotional journey of 13-year-old Riley Anderson (Kensington Tolman) as she must make room for new, more complex emotions, including jealousy (Ayo Edebilly), ennui (Adele Exarchopoulos) and embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser). Inside Out 2 The film comes exactly nine years after Pixar’s first blockbuster was released in 2015. The film is Pixar’s sixth highest-grossing film of all time, with a global total of $857.6 million.
Every deadlineAs of Saturday morning, Inside Out 2 The three-day total for the opening weekend is expected to be between $140 million and $150 million. Even at the lower end of this range, this would be the biggest opening weekend of 2024 so far, far exceeding the previous number one opening weekend, Dune: Part II It grossed $82.5 million. It is also likely to become the second-highest opening weekend in Pixar history, behind only The Incredibles 2of US$182.7 million.
Inside Out 2 is a box office success
Pixar’s new movie is doing well by any measure
this Inside Out 2 By any standard, Oldboy has been a box office success. In addition to nearly recouping its $200 million budget in a major territory in a single weekend, it looked to have solidified its place in the top five Pixar movies of all time by the end of its run. Considering how well it performed compared to the original film, which currently sits at number six on the Pixar charts, it seemed destined to do well. Below, see how the new film compares to the original:
title | Budget | Opening Weekend | Global Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
Inverted (2015) | $175 million | $90.4 million | $857.6 million |
Inside Out 2 (2024) | $200 million | $140 million to $150 million | To be determined |
This is possible if the film can maintain its box office lead because Inside Out 2 The film has a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and could eventually gross more than $1 billion worldwide. That would make it at least the fifth-highest-grossing Pixar film of all time, behind only Finding Dory ($1.03 billion) Toy Story 3 ($1.067 billion) Toy Story 4 ($1.073 billion), and Incredibles 2 (US$1.24 billion). Considering the gap between the 4th and 2nd place, Inside Out 2 It may follow in the footsteps of its opening weekend and finish second overall.
In addition to its success compared to the original film and Pixar’s overall ranking, Inside Out 2 is leading the company through a major transformation. Despite their 2023 title element Becoming a dark horse, Pixar has been in a box office slump since its release Toy Story 4 2019. In fact, the new sequel’s opening weekend gross has already surpassed the entire domestic box office of the 2022 flop Light YearsThe film only earned $118.3 million in North America.
Source: Deadline
Inside Out 2 
Inside Out 2 is the sequel to the original 2015 film, which centers on a little girl named Riley who’s all emotion. — literally. With an all-star cast that includes Amy Poehler as Joy, Bill Hader as Fear, Mindy Kaling as Disgust, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, and Lewis Black as Anger, the emotions teenagers face as they grow, change, and adapt to new circumstances come to life. The sequel, currently in production, will feature Amy Poehler reprising her role as Joy, with Riley now a teenager.
Director Kelsey Mann
Release date: June 14, 2024
Writer: Meg LeFauve Cast: Amy Poehler, Tony Hale, Maya Hawke, Lisa Lapira, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Diane Lane
Length: 96 minutes
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