'Inside Out 2' Has a Huge Second Weekend

When it comes to hit movies of 2024, Inside Out 2 continues to be the only name on the list. After a big opening weekend, the animated family film from Pixar showed off this week by turning in one of the biggest second weekends ever. That's welcome news for theater owners, who have experienced a historically slow year so far. Even accounting for Inside Out's big ticket sales, income for theatrical movies is still down by more than 20% for the year. Read on for details.

Via Variety.

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.

Notably, “Inside Out 2” added more in its second weekend than its predecessor, 2015’s “Inside Out,” earned in its $90 million opening weekend. The only movies with bigger second weekends were billion-dollar behemoths “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($149 million), “Avengers: Endgame” ($147 million) and “Infinity War” ($114 million), “Black Panther” ($111 million), “Jurassic World” ($106 million) and “The Avengers” ($103 million). At this rate, “Inside Out 2” is barreling toward the coveted $1 billion club as well.

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.

It’s another huge weekend for cinema operators in this otherwise dismal summer season.

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