Anecdotally, our theater had a lot of teens with their families. My daughter loved the first one when she was young and was so excited that she was 13 like Riley is in the 2nd one. I think this could feel like the Toy Story of this generation where the movies age with the fans.
It’s weird how Fury Road and Inside Out were released about one month apart then Furiosa and Inside Out 2 came out 9 years later almost the same amount of time apart but with drastically different box office results
@@ezravldina3467 Not a flop, but a $150million budget, with a $380million return, on a rated R movie, is well enough to get a sequel, with all the hype it got, snd how well it did streaming and selling Blu Rays. Furiosa, hasn’t even equaled its $170million budget, at the worldwide box office, yet. _That_ is a flop. Inside Out 2, made what Furiosa has, in its first weekend. It’s huge.
@@ezravldina3467 Flop isn't the word. It broke even at least, and it's effect on Pop Culture was a lot more palpable than most blockbusters of that time, hell, even now that is true.
Yeah here in Mexico it was crazy, since No Way Home there hadn't been a weekend where ticket lines were so big, there was basically no available tickets despite there being about 20 showings per theater, I knew Inside Out was liked but I didn't expect for it to be so universally beloved to garner this type of hype
Due to family pressure, I finally watched the first Inside Out last week, and loved it. So this single guy went solo to a Saturday 10 am showing of Inside out 2, with families mostly in attendance, and loved it even more than the first one. What great movies for all ages!
Love this show. I have followed weekend box office results for YEARS, and I patiently wait for these videos it to release every week. Such a great job, with fantastic, thorough breakdowns.
I will say this. I saw Inside Out 2 EVERYWHERE. On buses, signage in the shopping center/mall, bus stops, trailers, etc. The marketing has been on point.
I remember when I saw the luggage carousel at JFK airport completely wrapped in Inside Out 2 signage my thoughts we "Damn they are really going all out on marketing for this"
I didn't see any marketing in bus stops but in some toy stores near my house, it seems like they sell the merchandise quite a lot and people have been buying it in the last few hours
Last year there was also massive marketing for Elemental in my city, so I don’t know how much effect that really has on opening weekend. The types of people that see a movie because they saw it on a bus are also the types of people who don’t know what weekend it opens and likely end up seeing it later. I expect the legs on this film will be solid.
Inside Out is really popular and it holds up to this day, it even becomes more popular recently, this is why Inside Out 2 with enough marketing will draw a huge crowd.
I was really surprised by the huge number, we went to a Thursday IMAX screening and it was a pretty empty theater , but then my partner reminded me it was a school night.
@@joser1853you didn't ask for it. A lot of people did BUT they wanted Charlize Theron back. They saw a different actor and lost interest or didn't make the connection. Also, there was a time gap.
29:56 yes, In Mexico it was crazy, the 2 largest movie chains had a lot of problems with the website, you couldn't go in to buy tickets for any movie. Im going to see Inside Out 2, today because of that.
I was eagerly waiting the whole day for this episode (I'm from Europe). I think it's awesome you are doing the show on Mondays now, even though you need to work with the estimates. Keep up the good work 👍
I think stories like this are what makes this show work better on Mondays. Even if you need to correct based on final numbers, the story is still the same, so it’s worth getting it out earlier. Also if the final numbers for Inside Out 2 are drastically higher then it would be an example where it makes sense to mention the correction earlier in the show - if it actually adds to the story rather than just minor corrections.
After Even Seeing People Who Were Disney Critical Have Nice Things To Say About This, I Decided To Give It A Chance. Also, I Can't Wait For The Part Where Joy Says "It's Emotion Time" And Proceeds To Emote All Over The New Emotions.
Well, the good news there is that Pixar's next release is Elio. So if people want original ideas from the studio then that's their opportunity to show it.
I think Bad Boys is a perfect summer movie to enjoy as it’s simple and fun and plays well as a sequel to the other films that operated the same. Inside Out 2 is a great sequel to a film that’s 9 years old so audiences missed the characters. I think the lesson to be learned here is know your audience and let them make the demands of when/if a sequel is needed.
I think that’s also based on reviews because I saw reviews and that pushed me up to see it earlier than I would have. Seeing it Monday this week rather than NEXT week
I live in the capital city of a country, and go very often to the big theatre chain in the centre, but theatres, while busy enough considering the movie-going culture here, are NEVER full, or packed. But Inside Out screenings have been absolutely sold out. Its the first time I’ve seen it said on the website. Nice to see
My local theater was packed this weekend, hasn’t been this busy since Barbie & Oppenheimer last year. So I figured it was gonna be a big weekend. Almost entirely families
I think Memorial Day is a mediocre movie going holiday. But I was thinking something along the same lines. I think if bad boys and inside out had opened together any weekend, it would have been very barbenheimer-ish because they have such different audiences.
As a bit of a Tudor history nerd, I just want to add, Catherine parr wasn’t the only surviving wife of Henry, Anne of Cleves also outlived him, and in fact outlived Catherine parr as well as Henry’s son Edward. Probably helped that she seemed to avoid drama.
Incredible numbers, given its excellent audience scores will gross close to $500m domestic & get to $1bn worldwide! D&W's projected $200m domestic opening for an R-rated movie is insane!
I have one tiny suggestion regarding the road to recovery graph - It would help viewers see the graph better if the red and blue lines are dotted and the black one is a solid line.
YYYYEEEESSSSS!!! So happy for Pixar. It's an awesome movie. I like some of the other stuff out this year but Inside Out 2 had me feeling things to a degree I don't think any movie has done for awhile. Good for the box office too but the win goes to Pixar. Turns out people are willing to go to the theatres for the right film. Let's hope there's more of them on the horizon.
Another sequel takes a win. Gonna say it every time. Wallets are louder than mouths. Y'all buy tickets to sequels because they're a safe bet for a good movie. Studios make sequels because they're a safe bet for an investment. Stop complaining about no original movies.
Was this every in doubt? Take a look at the top movies this year. It's practically all sequels. Just because Mad Max failed doesn't mean people don't wanan see sequels. That was obvious when Fall Guy failed
@@terrymcginnis01 A sequel failing doesn't imply originals do well. I will say it again: Madame Web did better than Challengers. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the modern audiences. As expected, Oppenheimer was an anomaly. Nothing like that will happen this year.
I heard this won't be on streaming for awhile. I can wait, more excited about Deadpool, but a lot of people don't want to. If that's the lesson they take, it's a good one for theaters. Quality over content also helps, and gives another reason to actually want to go out to the movies. And yeah, it's a sequel, but the 1st one was such a good concept, and I hear this takes things in a pretty interesting direction. Definitely going to watch it on streaming.
What would they take away from this beyond making more sequels, putting your youngest actors on the forefront and putting up big bright colors on all the promotions?
@@sfdko3291That not all sequels work and audiences genuinely care about the premise of a sequel? I don't know what you people think, as if we're going to move away from franchises? That's never going to happen. At least hope good sequels get made more than reflexively hating on sequels l
Ghostlight was great!! Loved your anecdote about Kelly O’Sullivan-I saw the movie at the music box in Chicago and she did a Q&A with the cast afterwards. A really special, intimate movie-I hope you get to see it soon!
The problem with labeling The Lion King(2019) as animated means they would have to label films like Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes or Avatar The Way of Water as animated. Yes both those films contain live-action elements but the screen time for those elements is so minimal or being minimized or the elements are replaced with digitized versions, that they really are just animated films at a certain point.
I wonder what the effect weather (summer heat) has on box office returns. With the heat dome across the US, maybe the Inside Out 2 walk up sales was families looking for some air conditioned entertainment.
Glad I predicted Inside Out 2 as the biggest movie of the summer. But I definitely didn’t predict it grossing over 500M domestic which is what it seems on its way towards
Except Deadpool 3 isn't REALLY a Deadpool movie: it's a comic book team up movie (a highly anticipated one at that). It's like how Captain America 3 was more like Avengers 2.5, more people went to see it to see Tony Stark and Steve Rodgers duke it out than to see Captain America work with the Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Similarly more people are excited about Hugh Jackman returning as Wolverine and his interactions with Ryan Reynolds than they care about the conclusion to Deadpool's trilogy.
Inside out 2 had great one day ticket sales because it had great word of mouth BECAUSE it's just a goddamn great resonant movie. That's something no one can track until they put it out.
Went to see Tuesday this weekend and I was shocked by the crowds for Inside Out. My theater had opened their second concessions stand, which is never open, and I still had to wait in line about 10 minutes to get my popcorn. Good thing they don't start playing the movie until after 20 minutes of ads. Honestly, I'm not in love with Tuesday as a movie, but you have to give it credit for doing its own thing, and it got a couple tears out of me by the end. I wanted to find a showing of In A Violent Nature, but since its opening, I haven't found any theaters near me doing a showtime that starts earlier than 9pm, and I just can't justify being out that late for a movie... some of us horror fans have day jobs and bed times!
Wow! Just wow! Did not see IO2 making that much money. Thank you for the charts Dan. Also, thank you for the recommendation for "Tuesday". Will try to check it out. Finally, I think "Untouchables” is a brilliant film. Just rewatched it a few weeks ago.
Hopefully Elemental breaking even alongside Inside Out 2 being a success is a good sign for Pixar’s next original film Elio if the momentum continues to build in that movie’s favor.
I think that if you have live elements (actors, environments, etc) you can’t really claim it’s an “animated” movie. A live action/animated hybrid like Space Jam (or more recently, Sonic) isn’t exclusively one or the other. If the original Toy Story is considered “first entirely computer-animated feature film” and it’s 100% animated, the Lion King (with only 1 non-animated shot?) is essentially 100% animated, unlike Avengers movies. If Avengers 5 has all the characters as CGI and environments and everything CG, then that’s definitely more like an “animated” film like Pixar and The Lion King.
Technically "The Jungle Book" could also be seen as an animated movie, since Mowgli was more of less the only thing that was live action. So I, too, see "The Lion King" as live-action, since Disney tried to position it that way. A grey zone for sure, but still.
Stay strong Dan against the Lion King truthers. It was a live action remake that they had to "animate" by virtue of the fact that you can't have any "real" actors as a practical matter. They could've Pixar'd the film but chose to film it the way they did to evoke realism, which we don't associate with traditional animated cinema.
Way better than the first one. The first was basically an angry girl who wants to run away. Barely enough to make a full movie. This movie actually had stakes for the main character besides being angry. Also, the nostalgia emotion was a slam dunk.
The love of the first one is the reason that this new one had the hype that it did. Yes, the word of mouth helped on this one and that's cool if you didn't like the first, but the first one got a 98% on rotten tomatoes with and 89% audience score. It's universally loved.
I'm surprised at how many same day sales there were. I took my family, and I decided to get the tickets ahead of time by just a day, and multiple showtimes and different theaters were sold out of any decent seats.
I agree about Tuesday!! I saw it Saturday and I was immersed and emotional. It was great to see the theater a buzz during that weekend. Even my screening had five rows of people
My only knowledge is just from one Friday showing, but I was very surprised from the younger audience number. My showing definitely felt like a 30+ crowd.
Seeing Inside Out 2 tomorrow, looking forward to it a lot and happy to see it do so well. I wonder if Disney should have held out releasing Soul, Luca and Turning Red until they could get to theaters. You can argue quality and mass appeal and a lot of things about Pixar’s Post-Covid years, but I think people were trained a little to watching new Pixar and Disney movies at home and the cost and comfort differences from going to a theater. It took a movie they were excited to see to bring back big numbers for Pixar, but I wonder if they wouldn’t have been as hamstrung if they hadn’t put 3 new movies straight to D-Plus.
You know it's a busy weekend at the box office as you enter the theater at 10pm, from purchasing your tickets and every single cash register at the concession stand has a crushing line of parents and kids waiting to purchase their popcorn, candy, drinks, and more. LOL! We saw IF, which was a stunner! To me it's more adult oriented than kid oriented, though I totally get that kids would be enamored with all the imaginary friends. The story, however, seems to be more on the adult level and for that reason it builds from a confusing slow start to a magical, majestic, and amazing finish. Once it gets rolling, it is some kind of powerful story. So, I get why this has slowly built into a $100 million domestic take. But anyway, a great weekend at the box office. Don't know if this weekend's new films, The Exorcism, and Bikeriders, can continue the big wave of people into theaters, but A Quiet Place: Day One should deliver a nice punch. At my last check of the box office forecast list, two weeks ago, it was clocking in at a +40 million opening, so that number could be a lot higher by the time it actually opens.
With the audience of the biggest movie of the year ( so far) skewing female and the biggest movie of last year being female carried is it maybe time the studios stop assuming the male audience is the de facto movie audience? I’m not asking for more "strong female characters" as thin as cardboard, just a variety in the kinds of movies that get decent budgets and releases.
I would love if you did one video where you tried to guestimate the standard revenue percentage made outside the theatrical window. I know it varies a lot by movie and we don't really have hard numbers on this stuff, but maybe you can try to guestimate by genre and type of movie or something. Then whenever you reference that you're only talking about profits in the theatrical window, you can mention that you put out a video where you did your best to guestimate what all the other sources of revenue would add up to.
Hi Dan. Interestingly.. here in Czech Republic Inside out 2 didn’t released. It releases in 30 days. I don’t know why, usually movies are opening even earlier then in US (maybe like 4 days..). It’s interesting that it has such a big opening despite that (not like CZECH is a big market but to me it seems strange that it is so big and we have to wait :(
I’ve seen some people restart the conversation of “a movie saving theaters” and I have to say I think it’s misguided even if meant for the right intentions. The box office isn’t that only thing that’s going to save theaters there are many other things needed to be done to help. Yes, Inside Out 2, potentially Despicable Me 4, and then now with Deadpool and Wolverine also maybe going to have one of the biggest openings ever will help but it’s not the only thing that will help.
Thanks again for your insightful analysis! Quick question, when you look at the "days between 100M$ openings" what exactly does adjusting to inflation mean? Does it mean looking only at openings that are equivalent to 100M$ today?
