By Joy isn’t just a leading character, but a feeling throughout Disney and all of Hollywood today as Disney and Pixar’s animated sequel “Inside Out 2” continues to beat even the rosiest box-office expectations.
The film has reportedly pulled in a massive $155 million in its first domestic weekend of release, nearly doubling the debut of “Dune: Part Two” ($82.5 million) and “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” ($80 million) for the biggest opening of the year.
It also marks the first film since “Barbie” opened to $162 million last year to debut above $100 million, the second biggest in Pixar history behind only “Incredibles 2” ($182 million), and surpasses its predecessor’s $90.5 million start by a considerable margin.
Internationally it is similarly going wildly beyond expectation with box-office up to $140 million from overseas markets – surpassing “Frozen 2” ($135 million) for the biggest overseas animated opening of all time.
Latin America in particular came out huge for the film, delivering that region’s second biggest numbers of all time behind only “Avengers: Endgame”.
All in, the film’s opening weekend has grossed $295 million – the biggest animated debut in like-for-like markets to date. That bodes very well for the film which had a $200 million production budget, in fact estimates now are the film’s total domestic gross by the end of its run could reach a half billion.
It also helped push the collective domestic box-office above $200 million for the first time this year and helped shrink the overall box-office drop-off from 26% to 23.8% compared to this point last year.
“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” came in second with an impressive $33 million in its second weekend of release and has so far manaed $214.6 million globally.
Source: Variety
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