Disney Studios first 2024 release: Inside Out 2
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It's already at $761,854,032 Worldwide, with $13 Million more on Monday in the US.
Bruce must have found even more international money.
It will easily have hit $800 Million before the weekend.
I did mention a while back that it would be possible to see on Monday that it was 1st place for 2024.
I was so wrapped up yesterday in how this was performing compared to 2023 movies I hadn't realized that this was the case.
It only took 10 days in the theaters for Inside Out 2 to become the highest grossing movie in the world for 2024.
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If it hits the $1.1 Billion that Second told us it needs to make to beat the first movie after considering inflation, which I am very confident that it will, the worldwide gross vs. production budget will be in the area of 550%, which would move it all the way up to #15 on my list for 2023.
Movies Are Dead! Wait, They’re Back! The Delusional Phase of Hollywood’s Frantic Summer
By Andrew Wallenstein | June 25, 2024, 05:09pm
https://variety.com/vip/movies-dead-delusional-phase-hollywood-summer-
box-office-1236046853/
Just when it couldn’t seem to look any worse in May, the U.S. cinema sector sprung back to life in June — a mood swing worthy of the film leading the comeback.
“The essence of what ‘Inside Out 2’ is about is what the industry was going through: anxiety and depression, followed by glee and happiness and all that,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore as he led a panel last Friday at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium in Los Angeles.
Dergarabedian began the discussion with slides comparing the pessimistic headlines that greeted the poorly performing films of the previous month, including “The Fall Guy” and “Furiosa,” followed by the ecstatic reception that greeted the box-office strength of “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” and “Inside Out 2.”
Then Dergarabedian and his panelists took turns taking the media to task for perpetuating a distortion that he characterized as “unique to our industry, that the perception of the health of this industry can turn on a dime.”
Citing her many years in the business, Lisa Bunnell, president of distribution at Focus Features, told Dergarabedian she has grown so accustomed to the constant existential ups and down of moviedom that she likened it to manic depression and the classic R.E.M. song, “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” (R.E.M. is a fitting comparison — the night before “Inside Out 2” hit theaters and broke records, the band came out of retirement for a triumphant performance of “Losing My Religion” at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony.)
Apparently the depressive period is followed by a manic phase in which the patient suffers from the delusion that because the box office is on an upswing after a downswing, that means the upswing will be a permanent state of affairs. It’s not unlike the wishful thinking many indulged in last year after the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon occurred, as if the industry’s ability to crank out a few big hits would suddenly mean more hits would automatically keep coming.
Spoiler alert: They didn’t.
No one believes the studios have lost their touch; the problem is that touch doesn’t come with the regularity it once did. Theatrical distribution is clearly in secular decline, a sobering reality no one on the panel acknowledged.
And the alternative of streaming as a distribution model? Never came up in the discussion once.
To the contrary, time and again the panelists framed the industry’s struggles strictly in terms of needing to regain equilibrium, particularly with regard to the volume of titles in theaters after the setbacks of COVID and the strikes.
It was a striking framing, as the message seemed to be that we just need to get the old system back to what it once was — not that the industry needs to adjust to a new normal as it will never go back to the way it used to be. For me, that crossed the fine line between expressing confidence for an industry in a public forum and whistling past the graveyard.
More at https://variety.com/vip/movies-dead-delusional-phase-hollywood-summer-
box-office-1236046853/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Andrew and Lisa are incorrect.
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It's already at $761,854,032 Worldwide, with $13 Million more on Monday in the US.
Bruce must have found even more international money.
It will easily have hit $800 Million before the weekend.
I did mention a while back that it would be possible to see on Monday that it was 1st place for 2024.
I was so wrapped up yesterday in how this was performing compared to 2023 movies I hadn't realized that this was the case.
It only took 10 days in the theaters for Inside Out 2 to become the highest grossing movie in the world for 2024.
He found more international money. $799,754,032 worldwide now, with $18.4 Million on cheap seat Tuesday.
$800 Million in only 12 days.
Probably crosses a Billion pretty easy by the end of Weekend 3.
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It's strange how often Bruce is getting more international numbers on this one. Happened again today.
US Box Office: $400,673,315
International Box Office: $434,365,115
Worldwide Box Office: $835,038,430
Now it's easily going to hit a Billion by Monday morning. It will end up shattering the $1.1 Billion Second said it needed to beat Inside Out from 2015 with inflation considered.
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It took Barbie 17 days to hit $1 Billion Worldwide. It was at exactly $1,000,381,413 after 17 days.
You can look at my post from August 6th here about it:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=65650&p=3
Note: At the time I was under the mistaken impression that Barbie only cost $100 Million to make. It wasn't until later in August (on the next page of that thread) that I discovered it cost $145 Million to make after the studio admitted to it only after it was such a great success.
In fact, if you go back to August 3rd of last year (in that thread), you'll see that Barbie was at 817% of its $100 Million budget number, meaning that it only had $817 Million after 13 days. That's $18 Million less than Inside Out 2 garnered in the same amount of time.
And I don't see anybody reporting this fact.
I wonder if this has anything to do with why Disney is reporting the International updates every day or two right now?
As of Wednesday, Inside Out 2 is 13 days into its run. It will certainly be over $1 Billion after Sunday when we get the internationals on Monday. But if Disney keeps reporting the International figures everyday, there's a very good chance it could show that $1 Billion number as much as a day earlier than Barbie did.
I think they're looking for those bragging rights.
It's already impressive that IO2 is out grossing Barbie by $18 Million right now, but I'm the only one who noticed that apparently. That Billion Dollar thing would be great headline news.
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Bruce seems to think that IO2 is going to have "fierce" competition this weekend, despite still losing no theaters and remaining the widest release.
I beg to differ.
A Quiet Place: Day One and Kevin Kostner's flick aren't even aimed anywhere near the same demographic. There's a Japanese Anime coming out on Friday too, but it's only going to be shown in less than 900 theaters and I doubt that's really going to take anybody away from IO2 either.
I don't think that A Quiet Place would be much competition anyhow. I believe that the opening weekend predictions by Box Office Pro among others of $50 to $55 Million is pie in the sky thinking. The one thing that this movie has going for it is its slim-in-2024 $67 Million budget. But it's a horror movie. That's a huge budget for a horror movie in any year.
And I don't know why Box Office Pro would predict that A Quiet Place: Day 1 would take first place with only $50 to $55 Million anyhow. It only dropped -35% last weekend from opening weekend, and that's with Preview Thursday included in the opening weekend figures too. Unless it drops -50% or more this weekend, that seems like an asinine prediction to me.
My guess is that IO2 remains in 1st place for 3 weekends in a row and only falls when Despicable Me 4 comes out next weekend.
Also, the competition from Despicable Me 4 could be the only reason why IO2 doesn't reach $1.5 Billion.
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Inside Out 2 enters its 3rd weekend with a worldwide gross of $863,206,043.
14 days for $863 Million.
Barbie only had $829 Million worldwide on August 3rd of last year... it's 14th day in theaters.
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Barbie had $846 Million on Day 15.
Inside Out 2 has $880 Million on Day 15.
I doubt in the end that IO2 out-grosses Barbie though. Not only did Barbie had a phenomenally long run with a really great hold throughout, but the direct competition from Universal with Despicable Me 4 next weekend is really going to take a bite out of IO2 going forward.
I do believe it will be the first to a Billion though, or more likely, if they both hit that number on the same day IO2 will have a much higher number than Barbie did the day they crossed that line.
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My guess is that IO2 remains in 1st place for 3 weekends in a row and only falls when Despicable Me 4 comes out next weekend.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: (From The "A Quiet Place: Day One" exists thread:
Inside Out 2 has very little to worry about in its 3rd weekend, and it doesn't need to make $77 Million with only a -24% drop to take 1st place either.
*Context: The -24% drop is what Bruce predicted for IO2 this weekend.
Inside Out 2 dropped -44% on weekend 3.
Inside Out 2 remains the number one movie in the US for 3 weekends in a row.
Inside Out 2: $57.4 Million
A Quiet Place: Day One: $53 Million.
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