‘Inside Out 2’ Becomes Highest-Grossing Animated Film Of All Time Worldwide As It Skates Past ‘Frozen II’ With $1.462B+
- Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing animated movie ever at the worldwide box office, surpassing Frozen II with $1,462.8M.
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 $1,462.8Mthrough 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 by Kelsey Mann, Inside Out 2 has also moved up the overall all-time global chart, now at No. 13, behind Top Gun: Maverick , and having surpassed Barbie ($1.446B) on Monday.
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The current international box office cume through Tuesday is $861.8M, landing it at No. 20 on the all-time overseas chart. IO2 still has Japan to release, on August 1.
IO2 has been on a tear since it began offshore rollout on June 12, and domestic on June 14. At the time, the launch weekend logged the biggest opening for an animated movie worldwide at $295M (when using current exchange rates and in like-for-like markets).
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In short order, it topped the $1B global milestone , getting there in just 19 days — the quickest time to the mark for an animated movie ever. It is the highest-grossing film of 2024 to date, and the only one to cross $1B so far. In early July, IO2 became Pixar’s highest-grossing film of all time worldwide.
It is also the overall No. 1 film in industry history in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay.
The Top 5 overseas markets through Tuesday are: Mexico($98.6M), Brazil($73.9M), UK($61.2M), Korea($56.5M) and France($52.3M).
As we have previously noted , Disney’s 2019 The Lion King is not considered an animated film by the studio which made it under the Disney Live Action umbrella, rather than either of its animated labels.
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