‘Inside Out 2’ Becomes Highest-Grossing Animated Movie Worldwide

The animated success story keeps rolling on for the Pixar film, which is also the 13th highest-grossing movie of all time, and the fastest to $1 billion globally.

(L to R) Envy (voice of Ayo Edebiri), Anxiety (voice of Maya Hawke), Disgust (voice of Liza Lapira), Anger (voice of Lewis Black), Fear (voice of Tony Hale) and Sadness (voice of Phyllis Smith). Directed by Kelsey Mann and produced by Mark Nielsen, 'Inside Out 2' releases only in theaters June 14, 2024. © 2024 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

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‘Inside Out 2’ is the highest-grossing animated movie globally.
It has overtaken Disney stablemate ‘Frozen 2’.
The movie is also the fastest animated release to hit $1 billion.

Disney and Pixar are feeling all sorts of happy feelings when it comes to animated behemoth ‘Inside Out 2’, as it has passed another huge box office milestone.

The sequel to the 2015 original about the emotions in a young woman’s head had a huge start at the box office and renewed hope that the theatrical releases for the year will show an uptick despite a relative lack of big audience-grabbing movies in the marketplace.

‘Inside Out 2’ is now the highest-grossing animated film worldwide in history, no small accomplishment at a time when moviegoers are choosing to stay home rather than confront the prices and inconveniences of cinemas.

Inside Out 2

"Make room for new emotions."

PG1 hr 37 minJun 14th, 2024

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How Has ‘Inside Out 2’ Performed at the Box Office?

The new Pixar sequel smashed expectations (Disney was projecting closer to $90 million), with $155 million in its first weekend, the highest opening since ‘Barbie’ last summer (Greta Gerwig’s movie opened to $162 million).

Without adjusting for inflation, that marks the second-highest domestic opening for an animated movie (behind the company’s ‘Incredibles 2’ in 2018) and put it far beyond the first ‘Inside Out’, which opened to $90 million.

Garnering good scores from critics and audiences, the new movie also did well overseas, taking in $140 million, enough to surpass ‘Frozen 2’ ($135 million and yes, another Disney effort) as the biggest overseas animated opening of all time.

Globally, the movie kicked off its run with $295 million.

Now, it has moved on even further –– once more overtaking ‘Frozen 2’ globally to take the top spot. There’s a caveat that 2019’s computed generated redo of ‘The Lion King’ still technically earned more, but Disney counts that as a live-action film, so ‘Inside Out 2’ has usurped its throne with $1.462 billion to date globally.

What Other Accolades ‘Inside Out 2’ Has Taken?

Featuring Ayo Edebiri as the voice of Envy, 'Inside Out 2' releases only in theaters June 14, 2024. © 2024 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

Reaching a billion dollars in 19 days made it the fastest animated film to hit that point globally, and it is –– for now –– the highest-grossing movie of 2024 to date and the only member of the billion-dollar club so far this year. It’s also the highest-grossing film in industry history in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay.

What’s the Story of ‘Inside Out 2’?

The movie follows up from the original by revisiting the emotions in Riley’s (Kensington Tallman) head. We’re back with Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Tony Hale, replacing Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Liza Lapira, replacing Mindy Kaling), who have gotten into a good groove guiding and reacting to the life of their tween charge.

But they’re rudely awakened one night by the Puberty alarm, and even more disturbed by a work crew arriving to demolish the control center, preparing to rebuild it to accommodate some new emotions, including Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser), Envy (Ayo Edebiri) and Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos).

Soon, the new emotions are taking over running Riley’s life as she deals with new challenges and concerns, while the original crew are left bottled up in the back of her mind. Can they make their way back to figure out how to balance things out?

Will There Be An ‘Inside Out 3’?

Unlike the end of ‘Inside Out’, which teased the possibility of a further story –– the idea of the Riley character hitting puberty, which indeed was picked up here –– ‘Inside Out 2’ post-credit sequence is largely dedicated to revisiting a joke from midway in the movie.

There is, of course, plenty of material to tackle with other life stages for Riley, but few of them would seem to be particularly family friendly. Still, with the huge success of this new movie, expect Disney bosses to at least ask Team Pixar to explore options.

When Will ‘Inside Out 2’ Be Streaming On Disney+

Unlike some other recent big films, ‘Inside Out 2’ was given a 100-day exclusive theatrical window, which means it won’t be streaming on Disney’s service until sometime in late September or early October. The company has put a sneak peek at the movie (essentially a scene and a glorified trailer supercut) to drive interest in it, though we’re not sure it needs the boost at this point.