Box Office Ecstatic: ‘Inside Out 2’ Heads With $85M-$90M+ Second Weekend; Pixar sequel to dethrone ‘Dune 2’ today as 2024’s highest-grossing picture YTD – Friday PM Update

Whoever wrote that the theater business is dead might want to make a Disney/Pixar-like correction Inside Outside 2 is potentially heading for a historic second weekend for an animated film, topping Illumination/Universal’s The movie Super Mario Brosit is 92.3 million dollars.

Rival forecasts see $95 million for the Kelsey Mann-directed sequel’s second frame, while insiders see + 85-90 million dollars after one 28-30 million dollars Friday in 4400 countries. Today alone will push the sequel to become the highest-grossing YTD movie going away Dune: Part Two in dust ($282.1 million per household).

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At that level, Inside Outside 2 looks set to post the second-best weekend of any Disney animated release, besting Frozen 285.9 million dollars and The incredibles 2it is 80.3 million dollars.

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Inside Outside 2 ended its first week with $254.7 million, and after this weekend its total will go to $339.7 million – $344.7 million. Yesterday’s money matched a Thursday record for Pixar with $19.2 million, ahead Finding Dory ($17.4 million) and The incredibles 2 ($16.3 million). Worldwide run total for Inside Outside 2 until yesterday it is 481.1 million dollars.

of Sony Bad Boys: Ride or Die takes second place with 16 million dollars-53%, for a total of 144.1 million dollars. That bearer is near Bad boys for lifethird weekend of -48%. By Sunday, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s fourth installment will be about $4 million behind Bad boys for life at the same point in time. Friday’s take is $4.6 million at 3,781 locations.

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Third goes to Regency/Focus Features’ Bikerriders in 2641 theaters with a 3.8 million dollars Friday, including 1.45 million dollars Thursday previews and previews for a 9 million dollars opening. The Focus covered 50% of the $30 million to $40 million production cost and is ready for P&A. The Jeff Nichols-directed film is expected to open between $8 million and $10 million. Focus then took over the distribution of the film Bikers it was parked at Disney; photo of the first weekend of December. Disney turned down the brilliant, sci-fi movie the creator, the release of the Gareth Edwards-directed epic during the actors’ strike ended with $40.8 million in the Regency machine Bikers to Uni’s classical label, which released Nichols’ In love in a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar nomination for leading actress for Ruth Negga. Bikers is 82% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with critics and currently 77% with audiences.

of Sony The movie Garfield in 3,013 cinemas is watching Friday the fifth of 1.3 million dollars and the fifth weekend of 4 million dollars-16% and a running total until Sunday e 85.5 million dollars.

20th Century Studios/Disney’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes in 2,410 theaters is posting Friday the seventh of 1 million dollarsthe seventh weekend of 3.75 million dollars-32%, and the total execution of 164.5 million dollars. As we reported, the new Wes Ball-directed iteration has already surpassed Matt Reeves’ previous chapter. War for the Planet of the Apes which finished its US/Canada run with $146.88 million.

Rounding out the top 5 is Vertical Entertainment’s biggest release ever, the Russell Crowe genre film Exorcism, financed by Miramax, in 2,240 theaters. Scored with a 32% Rotten Tomatoes critic score and 50% audience score, the film is seeing a 800 thousand dollars Friday, 1.85 million dollars 3-day industry reviews. I heard about the photo economy for Vertical, it’s a low threshold, nothing to lose their shirt. I understand that respondents believed it was a follow-up to Crowe’s genre film from last year, The Pope’s Exorcist, however, he does not play a priest in this film, but a troubled actor.