Inside Out 2, First Film of 2024 to Cross $1 Billion at Box Office

And only the seventh since the Covid outbreak.

Riley’s new adventures and its share of emotions are popular. Since its release almost two weeks ago, Inside Out 2 continues to break records. First, the best start of the year in France with more than 527,000 admissions on the first day of operation, followed by the declaration of the phenomenon A little something extra from Artuswhich had dominated the top spot at the box office for seven consecutive weeks, now leading the race here and elsewhere, the film surpassed $1 billion in worldwide box office revenue this Sunday. A significant number that allows it to become the first 2024 feature film to fill its pockets in this way.

Inside Out 2 Is Already The Biggest Box Office Hit Of 2024

Enough to make the company of the famous mouse jump for joy and chase away the anxiety present in recent times while the two studios were rowing at the box office. Elementary had started badly, before recovering a little over time, but without breaking any records at Pixar, and Wish, supposed to celebrate Disney’s centennial, did not do any better. Thanks to Inside Out 2a sequel to the original concept that viewers were so fond of, Disney and Pixar rediscover the hope of the first moments and manage to do better than the big blockbusters of the moment. Because yes, even Dune: Part 2 hadn’t done as well. Denis Villeneuve and Paul Atréides had collected about $712 million together. Maybe they lacked new emotions to make a huge hit?

Even Denis Villeneuve is worried that Dune 2 will still be the biggest hit of 2024

By raising a billion dollars in revenue, Inside Out 2 does better than its predecessor released in 2015, and joins a very selective club which last expanded in July 2023 with Barbie by Greta Gerwig. In total, fifty-four blockbusters have crossed the billion mark at the global box office, and since the Covid-19 epidemic, only seven have achieved this feat: Inside Out 2 And Barbietherefore, but also Super-Mario Bros., Avatar 2, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun Maverick And Jurassic World 3.

If this is not the first animated film to join this small elite – there are already eleven of them, including eight from Disney/Pixar studios, such as the third and fourth installments of Toy Story – it is the first to reach such a sum in record time. For comparison, the last Walt Disney film to do so much was Frozen 2 released in 2019. At that time, the symbolic billion dollar mark had only been crossed twenty-five days after its release.

Toy Story 3, The Incredibles 2… of the billion-dollar Disney/Pixar animated films that have grossed over a year, most are sequels. Maybe that’s the key to success: sequels to fan-favorite Disney films? That’s what studio executives are currently doing, with the only original project announced at Pixar being Elio, due out next year. So far, Inside Out 2 heels Finding Dory And Zootopia. But Joy and the others have not yet said their last word and they could very well continue their ascent until they surpass these last two feature films.

No more original and autobiographical stories, Pixar bets everything on sequels