Rolling on from its record-setting second weekend, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has already hit a new milestone at the domestic box office. Tuesday’s numbers (+$18.4 million) brought the CG sequel to $387.8 million, rocketing it into the No. 10 all-time spot for animated feature films released in North America.
Going off of Box Office Mojo’s numbers, the pic has surpassed the lifetime domestic grosses of the first Inside Out film ($356.5M, 2015); Illuminations’ Despicable Me 2 ($368M, 2013), The Secret Life of Pets ($368.6M) and Minions: The Rise of Gru ($370.3M); Pixar’s Finding Nemo ($380.8, 2003); and Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($381.59M, 2023).
The Top 10 NorAm animation list is now:
- Incredibles 2 (2018, Pixar/Disney) – $608.9M
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023, Illumination/Nintendo) – $574.9M
- Finding Dory (2016, Pixar/Disney) – $486.3M (Contested) The Lion King (2019, Disney) – $543.6M
- Frozen II (2019, Disney) – $477.4M
- Shrek 2 (2004, DreamWorks) – $444.85M
- Toy Story 4 (2019, Pixar/Disney) – $434M
- The Lion King (1994, Disney) – $422.8M
- Toy Story 3 (2010, Pixar/Disney) – $415M
- Frozen (2013, Disney) – $400.95M
- Inside Out 2 (2024, Pixar/Disney – $387.8M and counting
Inside Out 2 also pulled in another $19.6M from overseas territories yesterday. Top markets through the weekend to Tuesday are Mexico ($68.4M), U.K. ($31.1M), Korea ($30.4M), Brazil ($23.3M), Italy ($22.4M), Germany ($19M), Argentina ($16M), Spain ($15.7M), France ($14.9M), Australia ($13.8M) and China ($12.5M), where Maoyan predicts a $33.4M final cume (150% more than Inside Out. The pic has yet to open in Japan.
Box-office watchers are confident the sequel is on track to pass $1 billion worldwide, outpacing Inside Out‘s global total of $859M.
The film is currently rated 90% on Rotten Tomatoes (96% Audience Score), with a 73 on Metacritic (7.7/10 user score) and an ‘A’ CinemaScore.
Directed by Kelsey Mann in his feature film debut, Inside Out 2 picks up with a now-teenage Riley (voiced by Kensington Tallman) and her Emotions (Amy Poehler, Lewis Black and Phyllis Smith returning with Lia Lapira and Tony Hale joining), who are thrown for a loop when brand-new feelings including Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser) take over HQ.
[Sources: Deadline, Box Office Mojo]
