There’s joy in toon town today as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing animated movie ever at the worldwide box office. With $1,462.8M through Tuesday, the sequel has surpassed Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen II ($1.454B). Disney has seven of the Top 10 animated movies ever globally, five of which are from Pixar. Directed
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EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios/Disney‘s Deadpool & Wolverine finally opens this weekend, not only further rebounding the post-strike box office to a healthy place, but also revitalizing the MCU’s brilliance. It was only last November that the studio fell on hard times with its lowest opening ever in The Marvels at $46.1M U.S./$110M worldwide. The current range
Marvel and Disney‘s Deadpool & Wolverine is at last unfurling in cinemas, reuniting on-screen and off-screen BFFs Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, the latter of which is the mastermind behind the irreverent series. Fellow BFF Shawn Levy directed. In addition to North America, the movie is also opening around the globe and is expected to
Brandy Norwood is having quite a year, which includes returning as Cinderella more than two decades after first playing the role for Disney. Norwood starred as the storybook heroine for ABC’s 1997 television movie Cinderella, opposite Paolo Montalban as Prince Charming. The pair is back to reprise their characters in Descendants: The Rise of the
As it continues its mind-blowing trajectory, and with Tuesday’s receipts now included, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing Pixar movie of all time at the worldwide box office. On Tuesday, it passed Pixar’s Incredibles 2 ($1.243B) to get to this latest milestone. The running global cume on Inside Out 2 through Tuesday is
NRG, Screen Engine and other three-week-in-advance box office tracking services are reporting a domestic box office opening for Disney/Marvel Studios‘ first R-rated movie, Deadpool & Wolverine, at $160 million-$165 million, which would not only be the best opening year-to-date but also a record start for a R-rated movie. The first Deadpool released in 2016 owns
Refresh for latest…: There’s joy all around as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has crossed the coveted $1B milestone at the worldwide box office. With $1,014.8B through 19 days, this is the quickest time to the mark for an animated movie ever, besting the previous record holder, Frozen 2, which got there in 25. Only 11
Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has reached $863.1M worldwide through Thursday, overtaking the original film’s lifetime of $859M global. The sequel got there in just 16 days of release and already is the No. 19 animated film ever worldwide. Earlier this week, Inside Out 2 cracked the all-time domestic animated Top 10 and is now No.
Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 keeps on soaring, reaching $799.7M globally through Tuesday. Within that, its international box office crossed the four-century mark at a running cume of $411.9M from 44 overseas markets through Tuesday. In North America, Inside Out 2 rose to $387.8M, moving well up the domestic animated chart. After 12 days in domestic
Refresh for latest…: Wednesday was yet another joyous day for Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 as the sequel set opening benchmarks in new overseas releasing markets. The full offshore day was $29M (22% of the weekend), lifting the international box office cume to $203.3M in 42 markets, and global to $438.7M. The half a billion worldwide
Disney/Pixar‘s Inside Out 2 grossed $29.1M stateside yesterday, repping a Tuesday record for an animated movie. That beats the first Tuesday gross of 2018’s Incredibles 2 at $27M. The haul flies the Kelsey Mann directed movie past the double century point at the domestic B.O. in its fifth day with $205.7M making it the second
Sources tell us that Disney/Pixar‘s Inside Out 2 is heading for a near $30 million Wednesday at the domestic box office — as big, if not bigger, than its $29.1M Tuesday, which was a record for an animated movie. Disney had no comment. As we always report, take the projection with a grain of salt,
In the wake of Inside Out 2’s massive $295M worldwide debut last weekend, Disney Head of Global Theatrical Distribution Tony Chambers kicked off the studio’s CineEurope presentation this evening thanking exhibitors in attendance for their part in the historic start — and was met in kind by enthusiastic and clearly appreciative applause. He noted too that midweek numbers have been
Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 had its first full day of play at the international box office on Wednesday with No. 1 starts in each of its eight material markets, including strong debuts in majors Korea and Germany as well as the Philippines. The total through day one overseas is $4.9M. Majors joining through Friday include
After the overperformance of Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die, summer’s big wheels keep on turnin’ as Disney/Pixar‘s Inside Out 2 is looking at what could be the biggest stateside opening of the year to date with $85M, and another $50M abroad for a $135M global launch. Legendary/Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two owns the biggest
EXCLUSIVE: Disney/Pixar‘s Inside Out 2 came on tracking this AM and sources are telling us it’s bound to be the highest opening at the domestic box office year-to-date, inching out Dune Part Two ($82.5M) and Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire ($80M) with a 3-day between $80M-$85M. Inside Out 2 opens over the Pixar tried-and-true
Disney Marvel Studios’ first R-rated release, Deadpool & Wolverine, is already heating up eight weeks before its debut, having already collected some $8M in first day ticket sales. $8M is pretty remarkable for an R-rated movie two months before release. The Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman-starring threequel directed by Shawn Levy opens July 26. While
In July of 2023, recently returned Disney CEO Bob Iger shocked the media industry by indicating he might be open to divesting the company’s declining linear assets. By last fall, he’d changed his mind, declaring them not for sale. On interviews and earnings calls since, he’s explained why — most recently at the MoffettNathanson media
EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is beating its chest towards a $125M global bow this weekend. At the international box office, we understand the Wes Ball-directed installment is at around $31M through Friday. As Anthony has reported, domestic is looking at a $52M-$55M start for the full frame. Overseas,
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company will limit its output of Marvel movies to “two good films” a year — three maximum — from about four and also cut the numbers of TV series spinoffs for the franchise. Speaking on a conference call with analysts Tuesday after quarterly numbers, Iger took questions about the
The first Planet of the Apes movie under the Disney regime after absorbing Fox hits theaters this weekend with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes poised to do $50M+ domestic, and $130M WW. After the dull opening of Universal’s Fall Guy, Jesus, God, Saint Mary and Joseph, let’s hope those projections stay steady. Apes
Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering
Fanboys will have to wait until San Diego Comic Con to see footage from Marvel Studios‘ 2025 release Captain America: Brave New World, but exhibitors do not. On Thursday during Disney‘s closing CinemaCon session, the studio showed off the new Anthony Mackie movie that picks up after the events of the 2021 Disney+ series The
Disney truly saved the best for last at CinemaCon — and that’s Dwayne Johnson. You can’t call it a CinemaCon without the action star, who is a regular here. Before he stepped onstage, a group of Hawaiian dancers and percussionists performed. They were shortly joined by the man who voices the film’s demigod, Maui. Exhibitor
Two months after Disney CEO Bob Iger‘s surprise announcement that Moana 2 was in the works at the studio and scheduled to hit theaters on Nov. 27, the animated sequel took center stage at CinemaCon. Disney debuted an exclusive sneak peek of footage of the David Derrick Jr.-directed film in front of theater owners with
All due respect to Godzilla, but the first quarter of this year was a bust for Hollywood. There’s no getting around it. The news read like an April Fool’s joke without a punchline. Disney gave up its fight with Florida, better to face its battle with investor Nelson Peltz (which reminds the ancient among us
Has it been that long? George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is getting a 25th anniversary re-release by Disney on May 3. That’s in time to celebrate Star Wars day, May the 4th. As part of the “The Phantom Menace” screenings, fans will be treated to an exclusive look at Disney+/Lucasfilm new series
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour broke records on Disney+ with 4.6 million views, making it the No. 1 music film ever on the platform per the studio. Swifties watched 16.2 million hours of the blockbuster 3.5-hour concert film this past weekend. These viewership numbers are based on 3 days of streaming; views released for other movie premieres
Harvey Guillén is “optimistic” we’re headed toward a world with a queer Disney princess. The What We Do In The Shadows and Wish actor said this week he thinks “we are in the lifespan of that potentially happening.” “I think they’re making strides in the right direction,” Guillén told ComicBook.com of Disney’s queer representation. “I
Marvel Studios said Wednesday that it has moved the release date for Thunderbolts to the start of summer on May 2, 2025, while pushing back Fantastic Four to July 25, 2025. The news comes the same day it confirmed the cast for its long-awaited reboot of Fantastic Four, which will star Pedro Pascal as Reed
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