Already the most successful worldwide theatrical release of 2024, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is now the highest-grossing animated film of all time, with $1.462 billion to date at the global box office.
In addition to surpassing Disney’s Frozen 2 (2019) on the animated chart, the film has also moved into the #13 spot in the all-time industry global box office rankings.
Now in its 6th week of release, the film also crossed $600 million in the US box office and has remained in the top 3 titles throughout its run.
The film achieved a cumulative income of over $371.4M at the EMEA box office, making it now the biggest EMEA animated release of all time. Is is also the fastest animated film to achieve $1 billion globally, in 19 days; the highest-grossing movie of 2024 to date (and the only one to cross $1 billion).
It is the biggest global animation opening of all time ($292 million), and the second-biggest animation opening ($154 million) in the US. With the blockbuster success of Inside Out 2, Disney holds 4 of the top 5 and 9 of the top 12 highest-grossing animated films in history.
Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as Headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety, Envy, Ennui and Embarrassment show up.
The voice cast includes Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Ayo Edebiri, Lilimar, Grace Lu, Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Paul Walter Hauser and Yvette Nicole Brown.
Inside Out 2 is directed by Kelsey Mann, produced by Mark Nielsen and executive produced by Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera and Dan Scanlon. The film features a screenplay by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein, story by Mann and LeFauve, and music by Andrea Datzman.