United States: Inside Out 2, a Pixar film, broke records at the box office this past weekend, earning an estimated $295 million (£232.6 million) worldwide. Disney, the film’s parent corporation, declared that this makes it the animated movie’s greatest-ever worldwide opening.
Approximately $155 million worth of tickets were sold in North America, overtaking Dune: Part Two as the highest-grossing opening weekend of the year. It’s a major victory for theaters, which have had dismal box office receipts for a few new releases this year.
Compared to the first weekend of the original Inside Out, which made $90 million and went on to total $858 million worldwide, Inside Out 2’s opening weekend performed far better. Just after The Incredibles 2’s 2018 release, it was the company’s second-best North American opening.
Following the relaxation of pandemic restrictions and the return of moviegoers to theaters, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation found it difficult to reclaim their positions at the box office. Parents were conditioned to look for new Disney films on streaming services rather than in theaters, even when they did make a comeback to the big screen. This was because Disney released a select number of animated features exclusively on Disney+.
The movie is the seventh Pixar production to gross over $100 million on its North American premiere, and it is the studio’s second-biggest opening weekend ticket seller, trailing only 2018’s “The Incredibles 2,” which brought in $182.6 million. The first sequel to the 2015 Oscar-winning hit film Inside Out centers on the feelings of a young Riley.