Director Kelsey Mann, exec producer and Pixar chief Pete Docter and their team at the studio should be getting ready to pop open a giant bottle of champagne. Their blockbuster movie Inside Out 2 will soon be claiming the top spot as the number-one animated movie of all-time worldwide. The global box-office total for the movie is now $1,442.3 million ($596 million domestic cume this weekend), which means it only needs another $11 million to beat Frozen II’s recording-setting $1,454 million.
The movie has already surpassed Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultran ($1,405 million) to become the No. 15 release (live-action and animated) of all time worldwide, and it’s likey to beat Barbie’s ($1,446 million) at No. 14 in the next couple of days. It should also be noted that the movie hasn’t even opened in Japan: the release date in the country is August 1!
The other big animated movie of the summer, Illumination’s critic-proof Despicable Movie 4 took the number-two spot in the U.S. with $23.8 million. This brings the movie’s total cume Stateside to a very healthy and Grutastic $259.4 million, and its worldwide total to $574.4 million (and the movie still hasn’t even hit the screens in Italy and Korea!).
The No. 1 movie of the weekend was Universal/Warner Bros./Amblin’s live-action sequel Twisters, which blew out all the competition out of the field with a powerful $123.2 million worldwide. The movie, which is directed by Lee Isaac Chung features stellar visual effects by ILM, overseen by VFX supervisors Florian Witzel, Charles Lai and Bill Georgiou. The Production VFX supervisor is Ben Snow.
Sources: Box Office Mojo, Variety, Deadline.com
