Emmy Poehler and Maya Hawke voice Joy and Anxiety, respectively, in Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2.
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Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out” is the latest member of the billion-dollar club.
As of Sunday, the animated feature has grossed $1.014 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 2024 and the first film to hit $1 billion at the global box office since Warner Bros.’ “Barbie.”
“On behalf of theater owners across the country and around the world, we would like to congratulate Disney on reaching $1 billion in box office revenue, surpassing any animated film in history,” said Michael O’Leary, President and CEO of National Motion Pictures. Faster. “The film’s stunning global success demonstrates once again that audiences around the world respond to engaging, entertaining films, and they want to see them on the big screen. “
For Disney-Pixar Animation Center, the billion-dollar benchmark is a much-needed victory. Pixar is a once highly successful studio that has suffered at the box office in the wake of the pandemic. Part of the reason for much of its difficulty is that Disney has chosen to launch some of its animated features directly on its streaming service, Disney+, while theaters are closed or even once theaters reopen.
As a result, prior to Inside Out 2, no Disney animated feature from Pixar or its Walt Disney Animation Studios had grossed more than $480 million at the global box office since 2019.
“Inside Out 2” also shows the importance of family audiences to the box office. According to data from EntTelligence, these underserved populations accounted for more than 70% of the attendees during the film’s domestic premiere.
While these audiences turned out in droves to see Universal Pictures’ Super Mario Bros. movie, which grossed more than $1.36 billion at the global box office, it wasn’t until the recent release of the Super Mario Bros. movie that they Feast your eyes. Sony’s “The Garfield Movie” and Paramount “if.”
“Inside Out 2” also attracted the coveted youth demographic to cinemas, with 14% of traffic coming from 13 to 17-year-olds.
As the future of movie viewing, this group is particularly important to the industry. Bringing them back to the big screen has become a priority for studios and theater operators.
Next up for families and teens is Universal Pictures and Illumination’s “Despicable Me 4,” which opens in theaters over the July 4 holiday weekend.
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