‘Inside Out 2’ crosses $1 billion worldwide, ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ has franchise’s biggest global opening

Inside Out 2 is shaping up to be not only the biggest movie of the year but one of the biggest movies of all time. In just three weeks, the Pixar sequel has crossed the global $1 billion mark, as per Comscore.

Domestically, Inside Out 2 dropped only 43 percent from last week, grossing $57.4 million, topping the box office for a third consecutive week. That brings its domestic cume to $469.3 million. So far, Inside Out 2 has become the 11th highest grossing animated film of all time, and the fastest animated film to cross $1 billion and the only film to do so this year.

Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly’s free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.

Any other week, A Quiet Place: Day One would have probably premiered at No. 1 with its $53 million take at the domestic box office, but everything belongs to Inside Out 2. Still, the prequel starring Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o as a woman named Sam who finds herself trapped in New York City with her cat Frodo during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing is off to a stellar start. Globally, Day One made $98.5 million in its debut, setting a franchise record for the biggest opening ,both global and domestic.

The names of Nyong’o’s character and her cat were very deliberate references to The Lord of the Rings, Day One director Michael Sarnoski told Entertainment Weekly.

“Sam and Frodo carry a lot of weight, and I think there is a real odyssey element to this, even though we’re contained within this city of New York,” Sarnoski said. “How people support each other through that journey is an important part of it.”

“He chose that name, and I thought it was really quite apt because [the cat] is that companion,” Nyong’o added. “Our relationship has a very steep arc.”

Faring less well at the box office, Kevin Costner‘s epic western Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 grossed $11 million. Directed, co-written, and largely self-financed by Costner, the films in the saga span the four years of the Civil War, 1861-1865, and explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won.

While the box office numbers may not be epic, Costner told EW he was proud just to make the movie he wanted to make after decades of trying.

“I’ve lived with movies and what happens to them on their opening weekend,” he said. “If we put so much pressure on that, we’re bound to be disappointed. I’m really happy that Horizon looks like what it’s supposed to look like, and that’s the way it’ll look the rest of its life. And that’s really important to me in this process.”

Bad Boys: Ride or Die continues its high-octane run, grossing $10.3 million in its fourth week of release, bringing its domestic cume to $165 million and its global cume to $332 million. Rounding out the top 5 at this weekend’s box office, the Indian Telugu-language epic science fiction film Kalki 2898 AD opened Thursday and earned $11 million over four days, domestically, while globally it’s sitting at $66 million.