Inside Out 2 is the fastest animated film to hit US$1 billion at global box office
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Inside Out 2 is 2024's first billion-dollar movie, crossing the threshold in less than three weeks of its release.
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Pixar movie Inside Out 2 has crossed the US$1 billion (S$1.35 billion) mark at the worldwide box office in less than three weeks of its release, reaching that level in the fastest time of any animated film in history, Walt Disney Co said on June 30.
The film is the highest-grossing movie of 2024 and the only one to cross US$1 billion, said Disney, which owns Pixar.
Inside Out 2 is a sequel to the 2015 hit about the inner workings of a young girl’s mind. In the second instalment, lead character Riley (voiced by Kensington Tallman) has become a teenager and is grappling with new emotions, including anxiety and envy. The movie opened in Singapore on June 13.
The original Inside Out opened with about US$90 million in its first weekend in the summer of 2015, and topped out at US$858.8 million globally.
Coming in second at the North American weekend box office is A Quiet Place: Day One, the prequel and third instalment in the apocalyptic horror franchise A Quiet Place (2018 to present).
Hollywood trade magazine Variety reported that the movie, led by Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o, made US$53 million in its debut weekend after opening in the United States on June 28. Globally, the film made US$98.5 million.
Lupita Nyong’o (right) and Alex Wolff in A Quiet Place: Day One.
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This is the most lucrative debut in the franchise. It exceeded the original 2018 A Quiet Place, which opened with US$50 million, and the 2021 sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, which earned a US$48 million debut during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The franchise is set in a world destroyed by blind extraterrestrial creatures, which have acute hearing and attack based on sounds.
