Refresh for latest…: Wednesday was yet another joyous day for Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 as the sequel set opening benchmarks in new overseas releasing markets. The full offshore day was $29M (22% of the weekend), lifting the international box office cume to $203.3M in 42 markets, and global to $438.7M. The half a billion worldwide mark is around the corner.
Yesterday saw the offshore additions of Italy, France, Spain and Belgium with each giving the charmer a No. 1 launch. In just those markets, Wednesday was $12.3M (including previews).
With $4.2M, Italy logged the biggest opening day of all time for an animated title, the 7th best ever for any film (non-local) and the biggest overall opening day post-Covid. This is also the 4th biggest Disney opening day of all time after Avengers: Endgame, The Lion King and Avengers: Infinity War (excluding previews). The debut was 397% ahead of Inside Out, 136% above The Super Mario Bros Movie and 91% ahead of Minions: The Rise of Gru.
France scored the 3rd biggest Pixar opening day of all time and the biggest overall of the year. The $4M take was 171% ahead of Inside Out and 31% ahead of Super Mario.
As with Italy, Spain also gave Inside Out 2 the biggest opening day of all time for an animated title and the top start post-Covid with $3.3M.
At $700K, Belgium provided the biggest launch day ever for Pixar, and the 3rd best for a Disney or Pixar animated film. The start was 133% bigger than the original and 34% above Rise of Gru.
Brazil opens today, and China gets on board on Friday.
The top markets through Wednesday are Mexico (and its staggering $42.2M), the UK ($18.7M), Korea ($17.6M), Germany ($10.8M) and Argentina ($9.4M).
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