Box Office: 'Inside Out 2' Nabs Record $295 Million Worldwide Opening

The well-received Pixar sequel earned more in its $155 million domestic opening weekend than any Disney or Pixar toon earned in total since 'Frozen II' in late 2019.

This weekend’s total domestic revenue will amount to around $216 million, the first $200 million-plus weekend since the first two Fri-Sun frames for #Barbenheimer in July of last year. Beginning with Spider-Man: No Way Home opening with $260 million and pushing the entire weekend to $283 million in late December of 2021, this is the fifth biggest Fri-Sun weekend total of the decade.  

It’s behind the first weekend totals of #Barbenheimer ($310 million), the opening jaunt for No Way Home ($282 million), the July 2022 launch of Thor: Love and Thunder ($232 million) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’s summer 2022 kick off frame ($222 million). Yes, the weekend where Thor 4 opened with $144 million led to bigger overall totals than the one where Doctor Strange 2 debuted with $187 million.  

Here’s the lesson... the (former) Sorcerer Supreme mainly stood alone in that frame while the God of Thunder was aided by robust holdover business from Minions 2, Jurassic World Dominion, Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick. Inside Out 2 earned a towering $155 million in its domestic debut, the biggest opening frame for any movie since Barbie debuted with $162 million in mid-July. But the reason that this weekend is flirting with the COVID-era record books for the total box office is because Bad Boys: Ride or Die *also* held shockingly well, earning another $33 million (-42%) for a $112 million ten-day total.  

This has been the case since Godzilla vs. Kong saved movie theaters (for the first time) over Easter weekend 2021. Audiences will come back to theaters if you give them something to come back to.