Deadpool & Wolverine biggest opening weekend of 2024 while Inside Out 2 now highest-grossing animation ever
It’s been a massive weekend for Disney.
As Pixar’s Inside Out 2 passed The Super Mario Bros Movie to become the #1 highest grossing animated film of all time in Australia, the highly-anticipated Deadpool & Wolverine has scored the biggest opening weekend of 2024.
This weekend, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 tipped over the $52 million-mark, with its $52.35 million total gross surpassing The Super Mario Bros Movie’s $51.77 million – a previous animation record.
The last time Disney held the highest-grossing animation ever was with The Lion King, which was released in 1994; it currently holds six of the top 10 grossing animated titles in Australia aside from Inside Out 2 – Finding Dory is fourth, Incredibles 2 is fifth, Toy Story 3 and 4 are ranked seventh and eighth, and Frozen 2 is the ninth highest-grossing animated film.
Globally, it just bumped Frozen 2 to take highest-grossing animated film of all time.
“It’s a joyous honour for Inside Out 2 to take top spot in charts locally and globally,” Walt Disney Company Australia and New Zealand senior vice president and managing director, Kylie Watson-Wheeler, told Mumbrella.
“The touching story is a must-watch for families as it strikes a powerful chord with generations of Pixar fans who carry a deep affinity for the studio’s storytelling.”
This success comes in a weekend that was otherwise overshadowed by the biggest opening since Barbie – Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine.
Not only has the third film in the Deadpool franchise scored the tenth highest-opening weekend of all time in Australia, but it also clinched the highest ever opening for a MA15+ title, and the fourth highest Marvel opening weekend behind Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Avengers Infinity War.
It’s also the highest opening weekend of 2024, with over 930,000 fans having seen the film between Wednesday-Sunday; 66% of the audience fell between the 18-39 demographic.
Since opening last week, the film has made an estimated US$438.3m globally, including US$205m in the US alone.
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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