Summary

• Inside Out 2 has reached a worldwide box office total of $438.7 million by the end of its first week in theaters.
• This makes the movie just the fourth release of 2024 to the $400 million milestone.
• The movie is on the way toward becoming one of the biggest animated movies in history.

Inside Out 2 box office has already marked the movie as a smash hit after it opened to $154.2 million, the second-best debut for an animated movie in history behind Pixar's earlier sequel Incredibles 2.

Per Deadline, Inside Out 2 has raced to a worldwide box office total of $438.7 million in just one week. It has become only the fourth movie to the $400 million mark worldwide in 2024. So far, the only movies that are still above it on the worldwide box office chart for the year are Kung Fu Panda 4, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (which recently became the highest-grossing movie in the Monsterverse), and the Denis Villeneuve sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two.

Inside Out 2's Week 1 Box Office Success Is Mind-Boggling

The Movie Is En Route To A Record-Breaking Run

The success of the Inside Out 2 release in just a single week is staggering. The amount of money it has already made would be enough for the average modern animated movie to be considered a hit. In fact, its single-week gross has beaten out the entire runs of all but 12 animated movies that have been released in the past five years, including the photorealistically animated remake of The Lion King. Below, see how the Pixar movie's current gross compares to the complete runs of those movies:

The movie still has a way to climb if it wants to become an all-time record-breaker. However, there is quite a bit of runway for it to continue dominating the global box office, as it is only in its first week. Additionally, even if it takes a huge hit in its second weekend and suffers a relatively drastic 60% drop, it will still hit a cumulative worldwide total of roughly $615 million, shooting it past five of the movies above it on the chart of the best-performing animated movies of the last five years.

A steep drop seems unlikely though, as Inside Out 2 reviews have given the movie a glowing Certified Fresh score of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and audiences have given it an even better 96% score. There also won't be significant competition from another family movie tentpole for quite some time. The next comparable blockbuster currently on the schedule is Despicable Me 4, which is set to premiere on July 3, giving the Pixar movie two more free weekends to accumulate as much box office as possible.

Source: Deadline