Box office: Houston! Requesting ScarJo and Channing to stop Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2 has dominated the national box office for a fourth week in a row, but a new blockbuster starring two of Hollywood’s biggest names is looking to stop the Pixar streak.
The record-breaking Inside Out 2 took another $5.99 million this weekend, bringing its Australian box office takings to $37.57 million.
Another family favourite, Despicable Me 4, came in at number two with a haul of $5.83 million in its third weekend, taking the Minions film’s cume to $24.2 million – a figure likely to have been much higher had it not be competing with a Disney smash.
A Quiet Place: Day One brought in $2.53 million in its second week, bringing its box office to $7.86 million, while debut The Bikeriders took $932,000 in its opening weekend.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die took $646,000, bringing its cumulative Australian box office to $12.75 million to date.
While school holidays is in full swing, Disney’s month-long cinema streak might be brought to an end by Fly Me to the Moon, a comedic drama starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
The film is going to take some beating, however. Inside Out 2 was the first movie of 2024 to reach US$1 billion in global box office takings, and the fastest animated movie in history to do so, taking just three weeks.
Locally, it pulled $9.11 million in its opening weekend, the best results since Barbie debuted last June. It followed this with the highest second-weekend ever for a Walt Disney Animation Studios/Pixar movie, breaking a record set by 2016’s Finding Dory.
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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