Pixar’sInside Out 2has become the highest-grossing movie of 2024 by a wide margin, but exactly how much money did it make, and which box office records has it broken? Following on from the 2015 original’s story about recognizing the positive role of sadness,Inside Out 2sees a teenage Riley contending with a bunch of new emotions, primarily anxiety, as she prepares to start high school. After an epic 14-week run in 4,440 theaters around the world,Inside Out 2has arrived on Disney+. But before its streaming debut, it made a massive splash at the box office.
As impressive asDeadpool & Wolverine’s box office runwas,Inside Out 2managed to outgross it and become the biggest movie of the year. Although it was initially projected to underperform,Inside Out 2quickly emerged as a bona fide blockbuster. A perfect storm of families looking for family-friendly entertainment and young adults who grew up with the original madeInside Out 2the top-grossing animated movie of all time. During its theatrical run, it broke all kinds of box office records, and those records got more and more impressive as it raked in more and more money.
Inside Out 2’s Total Box Office
Inside Out 2 Has Become The Highest-Grossing Movie Of 2024
Since its theatrical release on June 05, 2025,Inside Out 2has grossed $652,882,941 at the domestic box office and $1,034,389,122 in international markets for a worldwide total of $1,687,272,063(viaBox Office Mojo). This has made it the highest-grossing movie of 2024 by a margin of more than $300 million, with a different Disney release –Deadpool & Wolverine– taking second place. Being a PG-rated movie that appeals to audiences of all ages gaveInside Out 2a major advantage overDeadpool & Wolverine, whose R rating prevented a lot of younger viewers from getting to see it in theaters.
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The domestic gross makes up 38.7% ofInside Out 2’s total worldwide haul, while the international gross makes up the remaining 61.3%. This is a healthier domestic-to-international ratio than domestic-heavy 2024 releases likeTwistersandBeetlejuice Beetlejuice, which have been much more popular among American viewers than audiences overseas, suggestingInside Out 2has more global appeal. WhereasTwisters’ tornadoes andBeetlejuice Beetlejuice’s small-town suburban horror tackle uniquely American subjects,Inside Out 2deals with the universal topic of human emotion. Not everyone can relate to a tornado attack, but everyone can relate to teenage angst.
Inside Out 2’s Opening Weekend Box Office
In its opening weekend,Inside Out 2grossed $154.2 million at the domestic box office and an estimated $140 million from 38 international markets. Combined,this made for a worldwide total of $294.2 million, making it the biggest opening weekend in Pixar’s history.Inside Out 2’s initial box office projectionswere much, much lower. Industry experts expected the sequel to gross around $80–90 million in its domestic box office debut. This still would’ve made it Pixar’s best opening in five years, but anything below $100 million would’ve been considered a disappointment for such a high-profile sequel.
Inside Out 2had the fourth-best opening for a PG-rated movie afterThe Lion King,Incredibles 2, andBeauty and the Beast.
These experts were basing their low expectations on various factors. Pixar’s audience had gotten accustomed to waiting for a Disney+ release after the straight-to-streaming releases ofSoul,Luca, andTurning Red. Pixar’s last two theatrical releases – 2022’sLightyear, which had ties to Pixar’s most popular franchise, and 2023’sElemental– both underperformed at the box office. On top of that, a number of 2024 releases flopped at the box office, likeArgylle,Madame Web, andHorizon: An American Saga. Based on all that evidence, it seemed unlikely thatInside Out 2would break out the way it did.
10 Reasons Inside Out 2 Just Destroyed The Box Office: Explaining Its Record-Breaking $295M Opening
Inside Out 2 has enjoyed a record-shattering $295 million opening at the box office. But why has the Pixar sequel been so ludicrously successful?
After grossing $63.6 million on its first day, including $13 million from Thursday night previews,Inside Out 2’s box office projections were raised to predict a $140–150 million bow for the weekend. The sequel ended up earning even more than that with its $154.2 million domestic total. It surpassedDune: Part TwoandGodzilla x Kong: The New Empirefor the biggest opening of 2024 and became the first movie of the year to open to more than $100 million. It was Pixar’s second-biggest domestic opening (behindIncredibles 2) and Pixar’s biggest ever opening at the worldwide box office.
How Inside Out 2’s Box Office Compares To Inside Out & Other Pixar Movies
Inside Out 2 Made Nearly Twice As Much As The First Movie
Inside Out 2is the highest-grossing Pixar movie ever made(viaThe Numbers). It surpassed the previous record holder,Incredibles 2, which grossed $1,242,805,359 worldwide. Along withIncredibles 2,Toy Story 3,Toy Story 4, andFinding Dory,Inside Out 2is one of five Pixar films to cross the $1 billion mark. TheInside Outsequel is a couple of tens of millions of dollars shy of doubling the lifetime gross of the first movie: $850,309,035. Of course,inflation is a big factor here:Finding Nemogrossed $936 million in 2003, but that would be worth $1.6 billion today.
Inside Out 2 Box Office Records Explained
Inside Out 2 Is The Highest-Grossing Animated Movie Ever Made
Since its release,Inside Out 2has broken plenty of box office records. Most impressively, it’s become the highest-grossing animated movie ever made. It surpassed the 2019 remake ofThe Lion King, which was always a controversial contender for the record, since its animation is photorealistic. It was also dubbed a “live-action” version of the Disney classic. Now thatInside Out 2has taken the crown, the highest-grossing animated movie ever made is indisputably an animated movie. But the 2024 sequel’s records don’t stop there. Thebox office records thatInside Out 2has brokenare as follows:
Incredibles 2was the previous holder of the records for both the highest-grossing Pixar movie and the highest-grossing animated movie at the domestic box office. If history repeats itself,Inside Out 2will be dethroned by another long-awaited Pixar sequel in a couple of years. TheInside Outsequel scored the biggest domestic opening weekend since Greta Gerwig’sBarbieback in 2023, making it the biggest of 2024 so far. In addition to these records,Inside Out 2is also the fastest animated movie to gross $1 billion at the box office, crossing that threshold just 19 days into its theatrical run.
What Inside Out 2’s Box Office Means For Pixar
It Probably Means More Pixar Sequels Are On The Way
The double whammy ofElemental’s underperformance at the box officequickly followed byInside Out 2’s blockbuster run will probably lead to a lot more Pixar sequels. Disney CEO Bob Iger wasted no time gettingMoana 2,Frozen 3,Incredibles 3, andToy Story 5into development when he returned to the company, making it clear that he was hoping to revive the studio by focusing on its most reliable franchises. Sadly, the success ofInside Out 2likely means it’ll be a while before Pixar gets back to telling original stories.
Inside Out 2
Cast
Inside Out 2 is the sequel to the 2015 original film, which starred a young girl named Riley with a head full of emotions. - literally. With Amy Pohler as Joy, Bill Hader as fear, Mindy Kaling as Disgust, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, and Lewis Black as Anger, the all-star cast brought to life the emotions that adolescents face as they grow, change, and adapt to new situations. This sequel, currently in development, will bring Amy Pohler back as Joy, with Riley, now a teenager.
