The phenomenon ‘Inside Out 2‘ (‘Inside Out 2’ or ‘Inside Out 2’) has broken another record and has become the first movie animated in history to surpass the threshold of 1,000 million dollars in international box office receipts.
The sequel, in which little Riley enters puberty and experiences new emotions, is positioned as the highest-grossing film of the year, with some $1.649 billion in worldwide earnings.
Of these, $1.002 billion was collected abroad and $646 million at the US box office, specialist magazine Variety reported on Monday.
Since its release on June 19, the film directed by Kelsey Mann (‘Lightyear’, ‘The Good Dinosaur’) has not stopped breaking box office records: on July 24 it became the highest-grossing animated film of all timesurpassing ‘Frozen II’, which until then led the list.
‘Inside Out 2’ also tops the list of The Walt Disney Company’s highest-grossing animated films. Among its many records, the Pixar sequel is The animated film that has surpassed the $1 billion barrier the fastest (about 920 million euros), doing so in 19 days, and It is the highest grossing film of 2024 so far.
The triumph of the second part of ‘Inside Out’ comes after a bad streak that the study of Disney since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, when Pixar was forced to release some of its feature films through the Disney+ streaming platform.
No Disney animated film has generated more than $480 million (around 442 million euros) at the global box office since 2019, according to data from US media outlet CNBC.
