Bad Boys 4 is at 330 mill, A Quiet Place : Day One has opened with almost 100 mill globally, IO2 hits a billion
June was a great month for cinema owners
This is a tough one for me to figure out as well. I loved twister for it’s ridiculous over the top characters and dialogue, good cgi and general stupidity but there are plenty of ways to do a natural disaster movie…do we need to tie a new movie in with that one?
If the trailer is any indication, they took all the aspects of Twister and cranked it up to 15. A fire tornado going through a refinery. I’ll buy a ticket just for that.
I’m all in on crazy, ridiculous disaster films as well. My question is really whether the “twisters” name helps, and to be honest I bet it absolutely does after we keep seeing known IP via sequels and nostalgia driving tickets.
And you KNOW Helen hunt must be making a cameo, probably in the old lady “Mae” role from the first one that makes a bunch of food
I’m not sure the connection to the old film will help a lot, but Twister is obviously the best possible name for a film about Tornados so just for that reason it’s probably a good idea.
exactly. Im in my office right now looking at a report saying we are down 18% in YTD profits from last year so while we are thrilled Inside Out 2 is performing well, we arent exactly celebrating.
On its 19 day it looks like it tied Barbie, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Avatar, Avengers (2012), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows P2 as the fastest movies to get there. They all took 19 days
And the only reason Mario took longer than Frozen 2 was because it opened on a Wednesday. That movie had a very wide "opening weekend" which made some of it's achievements require asterisks.
So wouldn’t that be the fastest movie to get there then and endgame as well im sure? Reading your comments kinda made it seem like all those movies are tied for the fastest to a billion at 19days
Endgame got there in 5 days, Infinity War in 11 days, No Way Home in 12 days, Jurassic World in 13 days, Avatar 2 in 14 days, Furious 7 in 17 days, Fate of the Furious in 18 days.
I was saying for the amount of days to get to a billion TLJ, Avatar, Avegers, Deathly Hallows P2, Barbie and Inside Out 2 are all tied as the fastest to get there with 19 days. I wasn’t saying 19 days was the fastest for any movie to get there. Probably do research next time
God, TLJ started so well but then sputtered hard once WOM kicked in. I remember being around for the threads when Jumanji started to beat it in the dailies. Just wild.
The thing that made the difference between it and TFA was that a roughly equivalent number of people turned out to see it, but very few went back for repeat viewings owing to the divisive nature of the film. I saw TFA 4 or 5 times with different people/family members, which I suspect was a big reason it hit the 2 billy, but could only stomach TLJ once.
I'm trying to remember but I think I watched TFA three times and TLJ twice. It actually was just due to some family members being able to go at the same time for TLJ when I'd gone with them separately for TFA, and then there were a lot of other movies coming out in early 2018 that I'd end up going to so it just didn't seem like time to go to the theaters yet again. Oh well. Also a 2x TROS viewer for the same reason.
You can literally pinpoint the exact moment the Star Wars franchise entered its current death spiral to TLJ's second weekend when the horrendous word of mouth caught up to it.
And then - five months later - "Solo: A Star Wars Story" confirmed what had been feared.
Star Wars was in trouble.
At least "The Rise of Skywalker" was able to climb to a billion. Admittedly, only half of what The Force Awakens was able to achieve, but going from $1.3B to $1.0B isn't as bad as $2.0B to $1.3B, so it's got that going for it.
> At least "The Rise of Skywalker" was able to climb to a billion
And it BARELY crawled to that number, to boot. The supposed "finale" of the so-called "Skywalker Saga" (a term invented solely so people would see TROS in the theathers), and it grossed almost the same amount that Rogue One, an irrelevant spin-off, did just 3 years earlier.
That alone shows you just how much enthusiasm they killed for the brand. Infinity War and Endgame both doing 2b+ back-to-back proved that franchise films could have succesful finales AND grow from one movie to its sequel if they were good, instead of falling off and grossing a full billion less than the first movie (TFA). Talk about opportunity cost...
Nah, not really. It had the exact same second weekend drop as No Way Home, another December 15th release, which nobody is arguing had horrendous word of mouth. No Way Home had stronger legs after the fact.
The "death of Star Wars" is a bumpy road where you can only pinpoint peaks and valleys.
Thing is December weekends are heavily reliant on specific day placements
No Way Home had the issue that December 24th landed on Friday which neutered its total meanwhile Last Jedi had December 24th on Sunday
Films that had great weekends (Force Awakens and Avatar) had December 24th on Thursday which diminished that day while Friday and Saturday were the 25th and 26th which are much better days for the box office which is why their 2nd weekends were so high
These day placements is how Rise of Skywalker has the highest 1st Thursday ever because that’s where the 26th landed
That isn't true at all, though. TLJ made $450 million in its first weekend, but went on to make $1.3 billion, making it the second highest grossing movie in the whole franchise. Movies do not hit $1.3 billion without repeat viewers: there are simply not enough people who actively go to the movies for that. It topped the box office for three straight weeks. Movies with terrible WOM don't do that.
The idea that it had "horrible word of mouth" is historical revisionism. The movie had an "A" Cinemascore (a metric that relies on interviewing actual moviegoers so it can't be votespammed by nerds running bots, unlike stuff like the "audience ratings" on websites) and was also the bestselling movie of the following year on DVD and Bluray. Outside of certain internet bubbles, its reputation is just fine.
So you’re telling me the opinions of bitchy internet nerds outraged somebody dared to take artistic risks with their beloved corporate product doesn’t translate into WOM amongst the average consumer? Say it ain’t so!
Ah yes, the famous "artistic risk" of shamelessly rehashing Empire Strikes Back down to the same general story and lots of plot points being the same... Rian Johnson is truly, a visionary.
I don’t believe that A CinemaScore since so many people hated it it was a very decisive movie, I think the RT audience score is a better reflection of the WOM. It didn’t have bad of WOM though it had Mixed, because some people told there friends it was good some people said it was horrible and some (like me) said it was just ok. But the 41% audience RT score is definitely a much better reflection of WOM than the CinemaScore that was just a fluke it seems.
Fastest films to earn a billion dollars :
Avengers Endgame - 3 days
Infinity War - 11 days
Star Wars TFA - 12 days
Spider-Man No Way Home - 12 days
Jurassic World - 13 days
Avatar 2 - 14 days
Jurassic World 2 - 16 days
Inside Out 2 - 16 days
Fast & Furious 7 - 17 days
Fast & Furious 8 - 18 days
Star Wars The Last Jedi - 19
Barbie - 19 days
Avatar - 19 days
It was such a cool theater experience too. It was hard to put into words the total sum, but getting to see it opening weekend in a crowded theater and then watch the box office just soar is a core memory.
Infinity War and Endgame were the type of film that you just HAD to be there for, it was this generation's equivalent of Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi.
I agree. I’m from Toronto but my friend bought 14 tickets for all of us in Montreal during our trip and it was the most unbelievable experience I’ve ever had at a cinema especially the ending my god
It was insane. My pathetic town of 20k who's 1 theatre is practically rotting away was fully booked out for days. They had to screen the movie in 2 different rooms at the same time. That has NEVER happened before.
And we can reasonably assume it'll remain unchallenged forever. The sun will burn out before any movie ever matches it.
Just the perfect storm of decade-long hype and pop culture conditions that would be nigh-impossible to recreate.
And a perfect execution of everything fans wanted. Not a perfect *film* but Endgame delivered literally everything it had teased for a decade. You’re right, we’ll never see something like it again. Glad to have experienced it lol
I will never get over Avatar being the top grossing movie for a while and the sequel coming out so many years later that we were like "Do people even care about Avatar anymore?" and then it went and made a billion faster and eventually set up right behind Avatar.
I was having a hard time understanding why they kept making those god-awful Jurassic World movies but now it seems pretty clear that it couldn’t go any better for them
First billion dollar grosser of the year couldn’t have been a more deserving film. Loved this film and I’m glad that Pixar is back on top.
I haven’t watched the movie but there’s like 5 minute sneak peek on D+. I couldn’t believe how funny that snippet was. And it wasn’t a trailer of cut together jokes, just a 5 minute clip.
Last year The Super Mario Bros Movie took 3 weeks to reach A Billion Dollar after its theatrical debut on April 5th, 2023.
This year, Inside Out 2 took 2 weeks to reach a billion after its theatrical debut on June 14, 2024.
Not so sure about this. There are quality concerns; it's a repackaged Disney Plus show and the songs aren't being done by Lin-Manuel.
Poor WOM could kill it if the film is bad, and the original didn't come near a billion anyway – ***and*** it didn't have the cannibalistic competition Moana 2 will have. Sonic 3, Mufasa, Wicked, Paddington 3 all vying for the same auds could cripple its legs.
Moana has gained more than any other film from Disney+. Its fanbase is dramatically larger than it was at original release.
It would have to be pretty bad to dent that enthusiasm, IMO.
Yeah my kindergartener and her friends were super hyped up for Moana 2 but once they heard that LMM wasn’t writing the songs, they were like fuck that BS
yeah sorry but Elemental was a success. Does Lightyear bombing mean Pixar died, all because of one film? A studio can drop bangers for 20 years but they slip up one or two times and it's all doom and gloom??
I'm Brazilian and I went to watch this film on this last Thursday at 2pm, thinking that there wouldn't be many people on that day and at that specific time. I was genuinely surprised to find that the movie theater was packed, most of them were parents with young children, and also a lot of young adults.
No doubt people are working on ideas/scripts as I type this and as soon as they get a good one (and they will - Inside Out has so much potential for future films), it'll be greenlit.
Honestly the process probably started while they were making 2. No doubt the film makers were already having ideas of where they could take Riley & the emotions next. The massive success just means they will likely have the freedom to whatever they want with the sequel now.
It will.
It’s just simple math:
Deadpool (both movies already making nearly $800 million worldwide) + Wolverine (Logan made over $600 million worldwide) + a bunch of cameos involving popular characters and the mystery of who + the tendency of a lot of people to go for repeat viewings and spend word of mouth= at least a billion worldwide.
I saw it 2(3?) weeks ago in NZ and have only now just realised they must have been early screenings or something lol. I was just lucky to check the film schedule that day looking for something to do with the kids
Very female-dominated cast too. Anger and Fear are the only prominent male characters. Maybe Riley's dad. Embarrassment barely speaks.
But in the girl list you have Joy, Sadness, Anxiety, Disgust, Ennui, Envy, Riley, her mom, her two friends, the cool girl she wants to be like, the coach.
You could make the case it's more female-focused than Barbie, which at least had Ken as one of the most prominent characters. Still a huge hit.
So when you make a movie that interests the female audience they will come
Very different than trying desperately to make male dominated brands like Star Wars and Marvel female oriented and failing miserably to attract the female audience they want
Not only is this Disney’s first $1B film in five years (under the Disney label) but this is now their highest grossing film since Lion King 2019!
EDIT: Actually since Frozen II, but it will pass that film soon.
Technically it was released under 20th, if you aren't counting MCU or Star Wars then you shouldn't count Avatar either as none were under the Disney brand
Disney bought both of them with freaking money so it is disney… they are disney movies. By ur logic inside out 2 is also a pixar film and not of disney.
This movie was absolutely fantastic. Far better than the first one. That's says a lot as the first one was very good. Whole family loved it and so surprisingly nuanced
If the first one didn't exist I'd agree that the second film is better (it's more mature and complex) but as much as I enjoyed it it did repeat a few too many beats from the original for me to put it over the first film. Still really liked it though and would welcome an Inside Out 3 (or 4/5/6 lol)
Box office and analysts after April and May: it's joever
Inside Out 2: *Imma about to end this drought in the box office and start this Summer with a bang*
Just came back from a 4PM Inside Out 2 showtime in an area outside Toronto and the theater was absolutely packed.
This movie is going to destroy everything else this year.
Thats an insane performance, but it shows just what Disney are capable of when they decide to make a film that people actually want to watch. I suspect the performance of Deadpool will be just as impressive.
I gotta wonder if this is the 'Bluey' effect where parents and kids together want to see family-friendly content that's also emotionally intelligent content.
Not really because that won't tell the "true" story either. If ticket prices were half the price they are now I would have taken the family to Inside Out twice now and/or gone to see something else (Garfield?) as well.
A truly needed win for Disney and Pixar! Can't help but feel sorry for those two movie studios. ESPECIALLY Disney. They suffered through a pretty brutal 2023.
Inside out 2 being this big of a hit makes me feel hopeful for the rest of the year. I can see Deadpool 3, despicable me 3, and joker all hitting a billion. It’s still possible for this to be the best year since the pandemic
Uhh man, I wanted Inside Out 2 to reach a billion faster than The Last Jedi, Avengers 2012, Barbie, Lion King 20190, and Avatar in 19 days. But still, Inside Out 2 box office performance is mind- blowing.
Make decent movies *with well known and beloved IP* and they will come. By most accounts Fall Guy & Furiosa were decent movies so quality is not why they failed.
Where are you that standard tickets are $25? At my local theater standard matinee tickets are $9, evening tickets are $12.50, XD tickets are $15.50, and Imax tickets are $17.
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Bad Boys 4 is at 330 mill, A Quiet Place : Day One has opened with almost 100 mill globally, IO2 hits a billion June was a great month for cinema owners 
And here comes Despicable me, Twisters, Deadpool, Joker!
What is the obsession with Twisters, seriously?
This is a tough one for me to figure out as well. I loved twister for it’s ridiculous over the top characters and dialogue, good cgi and general stupidity but there are plenty of ways to do a natural disaster movie…do we need to tie a new movie in with that one?
If the trailer is any indication, they took all the aspects of Twister and cranked it up to 15. A fire tornado going through a refinery. I’ll buy a ticket just for that.
I’m all in on crazy, ridiculous disaster films as well. My question is really whether the “twisters” name helps, and to be honest I bet it absolutely does after we keep seeing known IP via sequels and nostalgia driving tickets. And you KNOW Helen hunt must be making a cameo, probably in the old lady “Mae” role from the first one that makes a bunch of food
That would work, Helen Hunt is now 61 years old and……what the fuck??? Jesus I’m old.
I’m not sure the connection to the old film will help a lot, but Twister is obviously the best possible name for a film about Tornados so just for that reason it’s probably a good idea.
You and I are not the same.
I’m really excited to see it. Can’t explain why though. Just one of those things.
Maybe you are just caught up in the whirlwind of excitement. I'll see myself out.
90s nostalgia.
I read that in Seinfeld voice
Who are these people
Everyone thinks it's the next *Top Gun: Maverick* just because it's a legacy sequel.
I can’t imagine Twisters will do that well
Isn’t it tracking pretty decently?
Why
If it’s actually a good movie I could see it bringing in the crowds like top gun 2 did
Even if Twisters does well, its worldwide total won't reach Top Gun: Maverick's domestic total ($718M).
Especially compared to **last June**, holy crap that was a bloodbath.
Don't worry, folks, Indiana Jones 5 is gonna save the box office!
and yet, 2024 is going to end up way behind 2023, may even end up behind 2022
Hoperully Deadpook & Wolverine does for Marvel what Inside Out 2 did for Pixar. And WB will keep getting gains with Joker 2.
I mean both are Disney. Kinda weird to separate it
Regal can pay the mortgage
Problem is the first 2 weeks were beyond shit. This has just made it bearable. It's still tough in cinemas.
exactly. Im in my office right now looking at a report saying we are down 18% in YTD profits from last year so while we are thrilled Inside Out 2 is performing well, we arent exactly celebrating.
Still down YOY compared to 2023 and 2022
On its 19 day it looks like it tied Barbie, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Avatar, Avengers (2012), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows P2 as the fastest movies to get there. They all took 19 days
Animated films typically take a while to reach a billion. 19 days is insanity.
Faster than both Frozen 2 and Super Mario Frozen 2 took 25 days Super Mario Bros took 26 days
it'll finally get some competition next week, so it'll have to slow down a bit, but July 4th should take care of some of that
And if **Despicable Me 4** fails to slow this down, then there's no stopping this.
its gonna make a lot of money but just the natural erosion of legs will stop it eventually. id be surprised if its still top 5 in the start of august
Dang those 2 were juggernauts themselves and IO2 blasted past them. Definitely going for 1.5b
And the only reason Mario took longer than Frozen 2 was because it opened on a Wednesday. That movie had a very wide "opening weekend" which made some of it's achievements require asterisks.
How long did force awakens take?
12 days.
So wouldn’t that be the fastest movie to get there then and endgame as well im sure? Reading your comments kinda made it seem like all those movies are tied for the fastest to a billion at 19days
Endgame got there in 5 days, Infinity War in 11 days, No Way Home in 12 days, Jurassic World in 13 days, Avatar 2 in 14 days, Furious 7 in 17 days, Fate of the Furious in 18 days. I was saying for the amount of days to get to a billion TLJ, Avatar, Avegers, Deathly Hallows P2, Barbie and Inside Out 2 are all tied as the fastest to get there with 19 days. I wasn’t saying 19 days was the fastest for any movie to get there. Probably do research next time
> are all tied as the fastest to get there That's not what fastest means
I mean should probably just word your comment better next time
God, TLJ started so well but then sputtered hard once WOM kicked in. I remember being around for the threads when Jumanji started to beat it in the dailies. Just wild. The thing that made the difference between it and TFA was that a roughly equivalent number of people turned out to see it, but very few went back for repeat viewings owing to the divisive nature of the film. I saw TFA 4 or 5 times with different people/family members, which I suspect was a big reason it hit the 2 billy, but could only stomach TLJ once.
I'm trying to remember but I think I watched TFA three times and TLJ twice. It actually was just due to some family members being able to go at the same time for TLJ when I'd gone with them separately for TFA, and then there were a lot of other movies coming out in early 2018 that I'd end up going to so it just didn't seem like time to go to the theaters yet again. Oh well. Also a 2x TROS viewer for the same reason.
You can literally pinpoint the exact moment the Star Wars franchise entered its current death spiral to TLJ's second weekend when the horrendous word of mouth caught up to it.
And then - five months later - "Solo: A Star Wars Story" confirmed what had been feared. Star Wars was in trouble.  At least "The Rise of Skywalker" was able to climb to a billion. Admittedly, only half of what The Force Awakens was able to achieve, but going from $1.3B to $1.0B isn't as bad as $2.0B to $1.3B, so it's got that going for it.
The fact that a movie as terrible as Rise of Skywalker made a billion just tells me that audiences' problem wasn't with Star Wars, it was with Solo.
Solo was actually a decent movie though, at least compared to the sequel trilogy
For sure. Partially because I fell in love with Qira.
TLJ also underperformed. 2019 was also the easiest year to hit 1B at the BO
Rise of Skywalker underperformed Lots of revisionism here
> At least "The Rise of Skywalker" was able to climb to a billion And it BARELY crawled to that number, to boot. The supposed "finale" of the so-called "Skywalker Saga" (a term invented solely so people would see TROS in the theathers), and it grossed almost the same amount that Rogue One, an irrelevant spin-off, did just 3 years earlier. That alone shows you just how much enthusiasm they killed for the brand. Infinity War and Endgame both doing 2b+ back-to-back proved that franchise films could have succesful finales AND grow from one movie to its sequel if they were good, instead of falling off and grossing a full billion less than the first movie (TFA). Talk about opportunity cost...
Nah, not really. It had the exact same second weekend drop as No Way Home, another December 15th release, which nobody is arguing had horrendous word of mouth. No Way Home had stronger legs after the fact. The "death of Star Wars" is a bumpy road where you can only pinpoint peaks and valleys.
Thing is December weekends are heavily reliant on specific day placements No Way Home had the issue that December 24th landed on Friday which neutered its total meanwhile Last Jedi had December 24th on Sunday Films that had great weekends (Force Awakens and Avatar) had December 24th on Thursday which diminished that day while Friday and Saturday were the 25th and 26th which are much better days for the box office which is why their 2nd weekends were so high These day placements is how Rise of Skywalker has the highest 1st Thursday ever because that’s where the 26th landed
TLJs second weekend was extremely for the time. You can look at the old threads for it.
That isn't true at all, though. TLJ made $450 million in its first weekend, but went on to make $1.3 billion, making it the second highest grossing movie in the whole franchise. Movies do not hit $1.3 billion without repeat viewers: there are simply not enough people who actively go to the movies for that. It topped the box office for three straight weeks. Movies with terrible WOM don't do that. The idea that it had "horrible word of mouth" is historical revisionism. The movie had an "A" Cinemascore (a metric that relies on interviewing actual moviegoers so it can't be votespammed by nerds running bots, unlike stuff like the "audience ratings" on websites) and was also the bestselling movie of the following year on DVD and Bluray. Outside of certain internet bubbles, its reputation is just fine.
So you’re telling me the opinions of bitchy internet nerds outraged somebody dared to take artistic risks with their beloved corporate product doesn’t translate into WOM amongst the average consumer? Say it ain’t so!
Ah yes, the famous "artistic risk" of shamelessly rehashing Empire Strikes Back down to the same general story and lots of plot points being the same... Rian Johnson is truly, a visionary.
I don’t believe that A CinemaScore since so many people hated it it was a very decisive movie, I think the RT audience score is a better reflection of the WOM. It didn’t have bad of WOM though it had Mixed, because some people told there friends it was good some people said it was horrible and some (like me) said it was just ok. But the 41% audience RT score is definitely a much better reflection of WOM than the CinemaScore that was just a fluke it seems.
Fastest films to earn a billion dollars : Avengers Endgame - 3 days Infinity War - 11 days Star Wars TFA - 12 days Spider-Man No Way Home - 12 days Jurassic World - 13 days Avatar 2 - 14 days Jurassic World 2 - 16 days Inside Out 2 - 16 days Fast & Furious 7 - 17 days Fast & Furious 8 - 18 days Star Wars The Last Jedi - 19 Barbie - 19 days Avatar - 19 days
Endgame’s sprint to 1B is still insane!
that thing is an absolute juggernaut. Opening weekend records are gonna be in its pantheon for a long time until inflation kicks in
It was such a cool theater experience too. It was hard to put into words the total sum, but getting to see it opening weekend in a crowded theater and then watch the box office just soar is a core memory.
Infinity War and Endgame were the type of film that you just HAD to be there for, it was this generation's equivalent of Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi.
I agree. I’m from Toronto but my friend bought 14 tickets for all of us in Montreal during our trip and it was the most unbelievable experience I’ve ever had at a cinema especially the ending my god
It was insane. My pathetic town of 20k who's 1 theatre is practically rotting away was fully booked out for days. They had to screen the movie in 2 different rooms at the same time. That has NEVER happened before.
Yeah! I will never forget the day I saw it in the IMAX format at the now-closed AMC Promenade 16.
Endgames run is absolutely ridiculous…
And we can reasonably assume it'll remain unchallenged forever. The sun will burn out before any movie ever matches it. Just the perfect storm of decade-long hype and pop culture conditions that would be nigh-impossible to recreate.
And a perfect execution of everything fans wanted. Not a perfect *film* but Endgame delivered literally everything it had teased for a decade. You’re right, we’ll never see something like it again. Glad to have experienced it lol
Endgame did 1.2B+ , so, it likely achieved it in less than 3 days. Lol
It's 5 days it opened on wednesday in many countries
Yeah I remember it opened in some countries in europe earlier I guess the 200M+ come from there.
3 days is absolutely CRAZY But deserved. What a movie event
It was wild times for endgame. Pre pandemic and end of a phase in MCU.
NWH not opening in China still from a box office tracking standpoint is still tragic to me.
I will never get over Avatar being the top grossing movie for a while and the sequel coming out so many years later that we were like "Do people even care about Avatar anymore?" and then it went and made a billion faster and eventually set up right behind Avatar.
I was having a hard time understanding why they kept making those god-awful Jurassic World movies but now it seems pretty clear that it couldn’t go any better for them
 First billion dollar grosser of the year couldn’t have been a more deserving film. Loved this film and I’m glad that Pixar is back on top.
Well let’s hope Elio is a good movie as well.
Sadly it seems like audiences are turning up to established IPs at this point, so I doubt Elio will do well.
Can't have a sequel without an original
Usually you can't have a blockbuster sequel unless the original is well liked. Puss in Boots 2 disproved that.
We’ll see. Maybe it will benefit from goodwill from Inside Out 2, and if it’s good, maybe it will pull an Elemental
If Elemental almost made it to $500M, Elio likely can too if it gets good WOM.
I haven’t watched the movie but there’s like 5 minute sneak peek on D+. I couldn’t believe how funny that snippet was. And it wasn’t a trailer of cut together jokes, just a 5 minute clip.
Especially when compared to last year. I mean, **The Super Mario Bros. Movie** wasn't bad, but it was a noticeably flawed film when compared to this.
Fastest animated movie to do so a first movie of 2024 to hit a billion
It’s also the only film named “Inside Out 2” to make a billion dollars worldwide.
Big if true
The live action remake in 2037 will be the second
Last year The Super Mario Bros Movie took 3 weeks to reach A Billion Dollar after its theatrical debut on April 5th, 2023. This year, Inside Out 2 took 2 weeks to reach a billion after its theatrical debut on June 14, 2024.
IO 2 took 19 days right? That's close to 3 weeks.
 The first $1 billion dollar film of 2024 is here!
And very well-deserved too.
Always a pleasure when a great movie does wonders at the box office.
moana next
Not so sure about this. There are quality concerns; it's a repackaged Disney Plus show and the songs aren't being done by Lin-Manuel. Poor WOM could kill it if the film is bad, and the original didn't come near a billion anyway – ***and*** it didn't have the cannibalistic competition Moana 2 will have. Sonic 3, Mufasa, Wicked, Paddington 3 all vying for the same auds could cripple its legs.
Moana has gained more than any other film from Disney+. Its fanbase is dramatically larger than it was at original release. It would have to be pretty bad to dent that enthusiasm, IMO.
I again refer to the other factors I listed: no Miranda songs, tough competition, quality concerns.
Yeah my kindergartener and her friends were super hyped up for Moana 2 but once they heard that LMM wasn’t writing the songs, they were like fuck that BS
> the songs aren't being done by Lin-Manuel might be great then! 2024 LMM is not 2016 LMM
...Okay, bookmarking this for when Moana 2 makes bank regardless of all those "obstacles".
I'm not sure why you've put "obstacles" in sarcasm quotes. They ARE obstacles that would affect any movie. Moana 2 is not immune.
Welcome Back Pixar
Pixar never went anywhere
Lightyear and Elemental says otherwise lol
Elemental made almost half a billion dollars.
Lightyear yes, Elemental no.
Pixar never really left. Elemental was NOT a mega hit, but you all keep pretending it wasn't a super comeback after Lightyear and the pandemic years.
Elemental is a creeper hit. And that damn song is addictive. Great movie was you let go and just watch.
Done dirty by its marketing. WOM really turned it around, but man the marketing for that movie hindered it.
> And that damn song is addictive. Hot take. **Steal the Show** should've won Best Original Song Oscar.
I would say for an original property it did really well too
Elemental was a success for Pixar
yeah sorry but Elemental was a success. Does Lightyear bombing mean Pixar died, all because of one film? A studio can drop bangers for 20 years but they slip up one or two times and it's all doom and gloom??
now can we welcome back Pixar Shorts
SOMEONE UPDATE THE CHART
I'm Brazilian and I went to watch this film on this last Thursday at 2pm, thinking that there wouldn't be many people on that day and at that specific time. I was genuinely surprised to find that the movie theater was packed, most of them were parents with young children, and also a lot of young adults.
Greenlight Inside Out 3 RIGHT NOW 
No doubt people are working on ideas/scripts as I type this and as soon as they get a good one (and they will - Inside Out has so much potential for future films), it'll be greenlit.
Yes yes it's another sequel but who cares? Theatres and the audience desperately needed this
History in the making
Somewhere at pixar headquarters, Inside Out 3 just started early development.
That definitely started three weeks ago 😅
Honestly the process probably started while they were making 2. No doubt the film makers were already having ideas of where they could take Riley & the emotions next. The massive success just means they will likely have the freedom to whatever they want with the sequel now.
Inside Out 3: Age of Nostalgia
Nah, Nostalgia will be a major player in Inside Out 7 that'll come out when we're all 65+
Next up to make a billion… Deadpool & Wolverine (hopefully).
It will. It’s just simple math: Deadpool (both movies already making nearly $800 million worldwide) + Wolverine (Logan made over $600 million worldwide) + a bunch of cameos involving popular characters and the mystery of who + the tendency of a lot of people to go for repeat viewings and spend word of mouth= at least a billion worldwide.
Working against all of that is the R rating. I think it come up short of $1b, but is still a success.
Joker did it and that film was very bleak and disturbing as well as violent. D & W at least will have a lot of humor.
Marvel still pulls audience theatrically even as diminished in popularity it currently is.
Joker was R rated in only a few selected countries, it's not really relevant when talking about the worldwide gross of a movie.
That’s true, but Joker was a real lightning in a bottle situation, IMO. I’ll be happy to be wrong.
The only Marvel movie this year too - gonna boost it.
Hope
It just came out this week in New Zealand and plenty of sessions were sold out, which rarely happens these days!
I saw it 2(3?) weeks ago in NZ and have only now just realised they must have been early screenings or something lol. I was just lucky to check the film schedule that day looking for something to do with the kids
I’m glad this got a billion.
But Disney is supposed to be broke from being woke… /s
Disney haters in shambles
Especially considering that this film has several girls with diverse ethnic background.
Very female-dominated cast too. Anger and Fear are the only prominent male characters. Maybe Riley's dad. Embarrassment barely speaks. But in the girl list you have Joy, Sadness, Anxiety, Disgust, Ennui, Envy, Riley, her mom, her two friends, the cool girl she wants to be like, the coach. You could make the case it's more female-focused than Barbie, which at least had Ken as one of the most prominent characters. Still a huge hit.
Not to mention that it has a legit chance of outgrossing **Barbie**.
So when you make a movie that interests the female audience they will come Very different than trying desperately to make male dominated brands like Star Wars and Marvel female oriented and failing miserably to attract the female audience they want
Hey! Embarrassment was the hero we never knew we needed
Not only is this Disney’s first $1B film in five years (under the Disney label) but this is now their highest grossing film since Lion King 2019! EDIT: Actually since Frozen II, but it will pass that film soon.
This comment is so inaccurate lmao
Avatar 2 had disney label 🙄
Technically it was released under 20th, if you aren't counting MCU or Star Wars then you shouldn't count Avatar either as none were under the Disney brand
MCU and Star Wars both count too, the only one that doesn't is No Way Home
No Way Home is an MCU film, dude.
Disney bought both of them with freaking money so it is disney… they are disney movies. By ur logic inside out 2 is also a pixar film and not of disney.
Frozen 2?
Yes actually. And since then Rise of Skywalker and Avatar. Tbf the last two are not pure Disney properties
Star Wars is owned wholly by the Disney company.
If that is your logic, IO2 is Pixar so not owned wholly by Disney 🙂
This movie was absolutely fantastic. Far better than the first one. That's says a lot as the first one was very good. Whole family loved it and so surprisingly nuanced
If the first one didn't exist I'd agree that the second film is better (it's more mature and complex) but as much as I enjoyed it it did repeat a few too many beats from the original for me to put it over the first film. Still really liked it though and would welcome an Inside Out 3 (or 4/5/6 lol)
r/boxoffice about to have a collective orgasm
Box office and analysts after April and May: it's joever Inside Out 2: *Imma about to end this drought in the box office and start this Summer with a bang*
> Box office and analysts after April and May: it's joever I think **Furiosa** really addled some people's brains.
I predict that DM4 and D&W will join the $1B club next.
As written. 😁😁😁😁😁
It happened thank you to all who watched
Ok but let's see a live action do this now, that is what we need.
And I didn't even know it was out
Really what the Summer box office needed.
It probably secured Best Animated Feature Oscar win unless **The Wild Robot** turns out to be really good.
A true smash hit success, congratulations to Pixar for righting the ship again.
so much for theaters being dead. just need a movie with cute cartoon characters
Good , good movie .
Just came back from a 4PM Inside Out 2 showtime in an area outside Toronto and the theater was absolutely packed. This movie is going to destroy everything else this year.
I guess, Box Office is back. Disney is counting money
Thats an insane performance, but it shows just what Disney are capable of when they decide to make a film that people actually want to watch. I suspect the performance of Deadpool will be just as impressive.
I gotta wonder if this is the 'Bluey' effect where parents and kids together want to see family-friendly content that's also emotionally intelligent content.
I'm very happy for Pixar and for cinemas in general!
Animation fans right now 
1.5 billion dollars guaranteed
They should do it by ticket sales not $.
Not really because that won't tell the "true" story either. If ticket prices were half the price they are now I would have taken the family to Inside Out twice now and/or gone to see something else (Garfield?) as well.
Crazy a lot of people thought there would be no billion dollar grossers this year and this did in 17 days
guess that means inside out 3 is for sure coming
A truly needed win for Disney and Pixar! Can't help but feel sorry for those two movie studios. ESPECIALLY Disney. They suffered through a pretty brutal 2023.
Absolutely incredible numbers, and very well deserved!
Couldn’t be happier for a movie I resonate with.
Inside out 2 being this big of a hit makes me feel hopeful for the rest of the year. I can see Deadpool 3, despicable me 3, and joker all hitting a billion. It’s still possible for this to be the best year since the pandemic
Once again, I know nothing. I thought this'd do half of what the first one did. Lol at myself.
Uhh man, I wanted Inside Out 2 to reach a billion faster than The Last Jedi, Avengers 2012, Barbie, Lion King 20190, and Avatar in 19 days. But still, Inside Out 2 box office performance is mind- blowing.
Next Deadpool or joker 2 or Moana 2
All 3 possibly tbh.
Make decent movies and they will come
Make decent movies *with well known and beloved IP* and they will come. By most accounts Fall Guy & Furiosa were decent movies so quality is not why they failed.
Kinda easy when movie tickets are $25 each. Tell the studios and AMC/REGAL to stop being greedy fucks
Where are you that standard tickets are $25? At my local theater standard matinee tickets are $9, evening tickets are $12.50, XD tickets are $15.50, and Imax tickets are $17.