Second biggest domestic animated opening of all-time at $154.2M, and second largest for Pixar: Behind Disney/Pixar’s own Incredibles 2 ($182.6M) and ahead of Illumination/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie‘s 3-day of $146.3M. Pixar are now responsible for 3 of the top 4 domestic animated openings of all-time.
The biggest opening for an animated movie worldwide at $295M: That is when using current exchange rates and in like-for-like markets; higher than Super Mario Bros Movie.
The highest international animated opening of all-time at $140.8M that is figuring in the same foreign release pattern and at current rates.
Biggest Opening YTD 2024: Six months in, Inside Out 2 bests Dune: Part Two‘s $82.5M.
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Biggest animated opening for Disney post Covid: Despite the Disney+ fever for Pixar’s Elemental ($154.4M domestic, $496.4M WW) last summer and Encanto ($96M, $256M WW), the latter released during Covid, the Mouse House has been made the laughing stock by a bunch of Minions. But now their emotions are finally getting a laugh.
First movie to open to $100M+ domestic since Barbie: Why is that important even though Inside Out 2 didn’t beat Barbie‘s $162M debut? Because after a marketplace that’s been battered by two strikes, leaving a lack of consistent tentpole inventory, the fact that a movie can come out and do five-quad business screams that theatrical still works.
Fourth highest domestic PG-rated opening ever which also gives Disney the top 4 in industry history that being The Lion King ($191.7M), Incredibles 2 ($182.6M), Beauty and the Beast ($174.7M) and Inside Out 2.
Second biggest domestic Monday for Pixar, third biggest for an animated movie at $22.2M: Inside Out 2 ranks behind Incredibles 2‘s $23.6M. Among all animated movies’ first Monday at the B.O., IO2 is behind Incredibles 2 (June 18, 2018) and 2004’s Shrek 2‘s $23.4M (May 31).
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Second biggest opening day for an animated film at domestic box office at $63.5M, behind that of Incredibles 2 ($71.2M).
12 million U.S. Admissions: This is according to B.O. stat firm EntTelligence. The last time the industry had an opening weekend that attracted more than 10M moviegoers for a title was Barbie at 13M back in late July 2023.
At 3.8M U.S. admissions, the most attended weekend for No. 1 theater circuit AMC Entertainment 2024 YTD: However, that figure also includes ticket stubs from Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die. AMC posted its most attended day of the year on Friday, June 14 stateside, a record immediately broken the next day on Saturday, which now ranks as AMC‘s busiest day of 2024. More than one million people went to the movies at AMC each day on Friday, on Saturday and Sunday as each day set a record for the year.
‘Inside Out 2’
Disney/Pixar; Everett Collection
Biggest Opening Day for an Animated Film for No. 3 U.S. circuit Cinemark, that being June 14.
Highest industry opening weekend of all-time in Colombia ($5.1M) and Turkey.
Top 5 industry opening weekend of all-time in Mexico ($30.2M), Argentina ($5.5M), Central America ($6.3M), Chile ($4.6M), Uruguay, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Israel and the Philippines ($6.7M)
Top 5 animated opening weekend of all-time in Greece, Kazakhstan, Ukraine (excl previews), Romania, Serbia and Korea ($14.9M).
Highest animated opening weekend of all time in Paraguay.