‘Inside Out 2’ Excites Thursday With Best YTD Previews Of $13M As Pixar Movie Eyes $100M Opening; ‘Bad Boys’ Franchise Crosses $1 Billion WW

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We got a hit on our hands as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 clocked $13M from previews yesterday that began at 3PM, the best so far in 2024 beating Dune Part Two‘s $12M. The current Rotten Tomatoes scores are a 93% Certified Fresh rating from critics and 95% from moviegoers, setting up the movie for a potential $100M+ opening weekend. The running overseas cume is $22.3M. Look for Inside Out 2 to blow past its $135M global opening projection.

You can easily say that when it comes to Pixar brands, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and also remember to largely bring back the entire voice cast (unlike Lightyear; also most of the actors and actresses are back for this sequel except for Bill Hader). Out of the gate, Inside Out 2 is 4 1/2 stars with Thursday preview audiences on Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak with 57% general audience, 23% parents and 21% kids under 12. Parents gave it fives stars and kids 4 1/2, the latter being girl heavy at 52%, and parents being mom heavy at 73%. Overall definite recommend is 72%. See people and jaded Wall Street media, moviegoing is still a lucrative past time!

Comps for Inside Out 2 are The Little Mermaid ($10.3M previews, $96M 3-day), Minions: The Rise of Gru ($10.8M, $107M 3-day), Toy Story 4 ($12M previews, $120.9M), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($17.4M previews, $120.7M 3-day). The record previews for a Pixar movie belong to Incredibles 2 at $18.5M which resulted in a $182.7M opening.

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Inside Out 2‘s previews bury that of the 2015 installment which did $3.7M off of previews that began at 7PM, which yielded a $90.4M opening.

Inside Out 2 is booked at 4,400 theaters with all the hormonal power of PLFs, Dbox, Dolby, Imax, etc.

In more good news for moviegoing, Sony’s Bad Boys franchise is crossing the $1 billion global threshold today. Thursday stateside was $4.475M bringing its running cume, and first week, to $79.237M at 3,885 theaters.

The rest of the week and Thursday’s box office happened as follows:

2. The Garfield Movie (Sony) 3,959 theaters, Thursday $890K (-24% from Wed), -24%, Wk $14.9M/Total $73.5M/Wk 3

3. IF (Par) 3,582 theaters Thur $711K (-28%) Wk $11.9M, Total $97.4M/Wk 4

4. The Watchers (NL) 3,351 theaters, Thur $610K (-8%), Wk $10M/Wk 1

5. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th/Dis) 3,155 theaters, Thur $615K (-2%), Wk $8.2M, $152.6M/Wk 5