‘Despicable Me 4’ Rises To $438M WW, ‘Inside Out 2’ Grins With $1.35B, ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Tops $200M & ‘Twisters’ Starts Swirling Early Overseas – International Box Office

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Refresh for latest…: Animation domination continues at the global and international box office with Universal/Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 leading the pack this frame, and Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 still positively on fire after five sessions. At the same time, we’re seeing encouraging numbers for all major titles in release. And that’s a great thing; yes, there is reason to be positive.

Already this week, Inside Out 2 became Pixar’s highest grossing movie ever globally, and the Despicable Me/Minions franchise became the first to reach $5B global. Neither of the current films in release are close to done. To wit: DM4 still has Japan, Korea and Italy on deck. 

IO2, meanwhile, is going to Japan on August 1 — and that market may just help propel the Pixar sequel past Frozen 2 to become the biggest animated film of all time worldwide. 

Outside the family-centric sphere, we’ve got Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Day One making noise as it crosses $100M overseas and $200M global. And, new this weekend is Twisters, via Warner Bros, with an early start of $11.5M in 38 markets including Australia, Mexico and Brazil. Uni has this one domestically and starts release on July 19.

Before we dig down into the nitty-gritty, here’s a snapshot look at the cumes for DM4 and IO2.

Despicable Me 4 had an $88M weekend in 78 overseas markets, a 38% drop from last frame’s holdovers. The international total is now $226.7M for $437.8M global.

Inside Out 2 did $50.2M in 47 material markets (-38% versus last week), to raise the offshore cume to $777.5M and global to $1,350.1M. 

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