The top two films at the weekend box office are both setting new records. But do they have enough momentum to carry them to strong holds over the Fourth of July holiday?
It’s official: Inside Out 2 sets a new box office record this weekend as the fastest animated movie to top $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
Pixar’s blockbuster animated sequel once again topped $100 million from international markets on its third weekend at the box office, and will finish with at least the eighth-biggest domestic third weekend at the box office in cinema history.
Inside Out 2 is on pace to finish the weekend at $1.015 billion, prompting renewed celebrations and declarations that theatrical is back — but let’s be honest, it’s not really, even though this is a wonderful and welcome surprise that definitely helps mitigate the damage this summer.
Besides the record for fastest to $1 billion for an animated film, this weekend also makes Inside Out 2 the 12th-highest grossing animated movie ever made. By the end of next weekend it will leap up the charts to surpass Toy Story 4’s $1.073 million gross as the new seventh-highest grossing animated film in history. It should finish its run somewhere in the top six.
A Quiet Place: Day One set its own record this weekend with the biggest debut of the franchise’s three chapters so far, grossing $53 million domestically and almost $100 million globally.
