‘Inside Out 2’ Sets Second Weekend Animation Record with $101M (Updated)

The weather outside is frightful, but Walt Disney Animation Studios’ predictions for Inside Out 2‘s second-weekend box office are delightful. With extreme heat, humidity and June Gloom storms impacting major markets across the U.S., combined with the storytelling reputation of Pixar, the sequel rocketed to $101 million over the break as families seeks refuge in air conditioned theaters (an impressively mild drop-off of -35%). Its North American cumulative is now $356M.

The film scored an impressive $154.2M opening weekend at the domestic box office from June 14 and a record-setting $295M worldwide.

Inside Out 2 has officially set a new record for a best second-frame take of all time for an animated feature — supplanting 2023’s highest-grossing animated pic, The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Nintendo / Illumination / Universal), which snagged $92.3M in its second weekend. It is also the seventh-best second weekend in an elite $100M+ club that is mostly Walt Disney Studios’ Lucasfilm and Marvel VFX-fueled blockbusters: Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($149.2M | 2015), Avengers: Endgame ($147.3M | 2019), Avengers: Infinity War ($114.7M | 2018), Black Panther ($111.6M | 2018), Jurassic World ($106.5M | 2015 | Universal) and The Avengers ($103M | 2012).

Keeping its claws in the domestic charts is The Garfield Movie (Sony/Alcon), which came in at No. 4 with $3.6M (-24.5%) in its fifth week (cume $85.1M domestic). The film opened May 24 and has purred to $230.6M worldwide. Jon Krasinski’s hybrid family pic IF (Paramount) also remains a popular all-ages option, coming in at No. 6 with a three-day total of $2.77M (total $106.6M / $181.3M ww) in its sixth week.

Over the weekend, Inside Out 2 also posted nigh-pre-COVID numbers globally, scoring a projected $724M in just 12 days as of Sunday. The film is proving a hit across 44 international markets, with standout numbers being reported from several:

• No.1 across Latin America and the biggest film of the year in just nine days, surpassing the regional lifetime gross of the original Inside Out
•  $50M+ in Mexico, which leads the top five markets follows by the U.K. ($21.6M), Korea ($20.1M), Germany ($13.1M, an increase week-on-week) and Argentina ($12.3M)
• Biggest animated opening in Brazil ($3.2M for its Thursday No. 1 debut), fifth biggest for any film of all time and top premiere of the year
• Highest-grossing first Friday for a Hollywood import in Italy

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, BoxOfficeMojo]