Inside Out 2 first film to break a billion since Barbie
Inside Out 2 is 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 since its release.
Locally, the animated smash enjoyed its third straight week on top of the national box office, taking another $5.93 million over the weekend. This brings its Aussie cumulative box office to $27.6 million.
The Disney Pixar hit 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.
As Mumbrella revealed last week, Inside Out 2 grossed $100 million globally in its second week of release; just the seventh film to ever do so.
In second place, Despicable Me 4 took $5.35 million in its second week of release, bringing its cumulative Australian box office to $14.52 million to date. The two films made up over 55% of total takings this weekend.
In third place, new release, A Quiet Place: Day One brought in $3.94 million in its opening weekend, while new Indian title Kalki 2898 AD took in $1.65 million in its first weekend.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die brought in $917,000 in its fourth week of release, bringing its cumulative Australian box office to $11.7 million.
In a recent episode of Mumbrella’s one-on-one podcast, Universal Pictures ANZ director of marketing, Suzanne Stretton-Brown said the key challenge for the cinema industry now is getting people back to the big screen from the small screen.
“I think the thing that we’ve noticed is that obviously since the pandemic and with all the changes to entertainment consumption habits, is that those films that were traditionally doing more modest box office… we’re finding it harder to get out because you have to create. Consumers now, they want a reason to get off the lounge because they’ve got so much choice.
“And that is the category at the moment where we’re really trying to figure out and find new strategies around.”
Listen to the full episode with Stretton-Brown here.
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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