The box office continues to run hot as Disney/Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” has become the fastest animated film to gross $1 billion worldwide, hitting the mark after just three weekends in theaters.
Meanwhile, Paramount’s “A Quiet Place: Day One” is providing theaters with exactly the sort of variety it needs, earning a $53 million domestic opening weekend that tops its two predecessors in the horror franchise.
“Inside Out 2” earned $57.4 million domestically to take its third No. 1 weekend. While it will cede that top spot next weekend to Universal/Illumination’s “Despicable Me 4,” it is still on pace to pass “Incredibles 2” as the highest grossing animated film ever at the North American box office and will have a strong chance of also passing the $1.36 billion total earned by “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” last year.
Currently, “Inside Out 2” stands fifth on the all-time domestic animated films list with $469.3 million while the international total stands at $545 million. It is now the 11th animated film to cross the $1 billion mark, and the eighth from Disney/Pixar.
Meanwhile, “A Quiet Place: Day One” is setting its own franchise high with a $53 million domestic opening and $98.5 million worldwide. The domestic start surpasses the $50 million opening of the first “Quiet Place” before inflation adjustment, and excluding China, the global start is 20% ahead of the global start for “A Quiet Place — Part II” in 2021.
Like “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” before it, “A Quiet Place: Day One” is providing the box office with the critical secondary support needed for a healthy box office and should continue to serve as a solid alternative offering to the animated films on offer this Fourth of July weekend. Audience reception for the film has been consistent with past “Quiet Place” films, earning a B+ on CinemaScore, 4/5 on PostTrak, and 73% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The big misfire of the weekend is Warner Bros.’ “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1,” which earned just $11 million from 3,334 theaters. Warner Bros. is only handling distribution on the film, which has a $100 million production budget financed by foreign sales and investors, along with $38 million directly from writer-director Kevin Costner.
That opening is consistent with pre-release tracking for “Horizon,” which is banking on strong word-of-mouth to allow it to leg out. But audience reception hasn’t been particularly strong with a B- on CinemaScore and a 69% RT audience score. A second installment of “Horizon,” which Costner planned as a four-part saga, is set for release in August.
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