'Inside Out 2' stirs up the box office with $13 million in early screenings

Inside Out 2 currently holds the "record" for the film with the highest early ticket sales of 2024 with $13 million in North America, according to Variety . In addition, the film also earned an additional $22.3 million from markets outside North America in its first screenings, according to Box Office Mojo. Box office observers predict the film will earn $80-90 million over the weekend in North America.

Inside Out 2 is likely to "dethrone" other blockbusters of the past 6 months.

The film is expected to dethrone Dune: Part Two and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire to take the top spot for the year's highest-grossing opening weekend. These two films opened with $82.5 million and $80 million, respectively, over the weekend.

Inside Out 2 is a sequel to the first part (which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature), with many new emotional characters, exploring the joyful but also worrisome adulthood of little girl Riley. This work currently has a production budget of up to 200 million USD, making it one of the most "expensive" animated films ever made.

With this impressive initial "achievement", the early screening revenue of Inside Out 2 "beat" most other blockbusters such as The Little Mermaid ($10.3 million in early screenings), Minions: The Rise of Gru ($10.8 million) and Toy Story 4 ($12 million).

Part 1 of Inside Out debuted with only $3.7 million in early screenings in 2015, but its weekend revenue reached $90.5 million, for a global total of $858.8 million. Inside Out , released a decade ago, was in the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2015.

New emotional characters in Inside Out 2

Movie lovers expect Inside Out 2 to satisfy their summer movie cravings. Pixar has been looking forward to the film because recently, the animation studio has released a series of films with not-so-breakthrough opening revenue such as Elemental (the lowest among the studio's films with 29.6 million USD), Lightyear (50.5 million USD), and a series of films such as Soul , Turning Red , Luca or Onward that had to be shown online due to the pandemic.

Inside Out 2 has been shown in Vietnamese theaters since June 14, at the same time as the world box office.

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