Pixar Animation Studios‘ Inside Out 2 is continuing its box office dominance. The sequel grossed $22.2 million on Monday, the second highest Monday ever for a Pixar movie after 2018’s Incredibles 2, which grossed $23.6 million in 2018.
Inside Out 2 has grossed a worldwide total of $333.8 million and is already the fifth highest-grossing movie of the year right behind Disney’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which is currently in theaters and is sitting at $375.2 million worldwide. Additionally, the film has already outgrossed Pixar’s Lightyear and The Good Dinosaur and by next weekend is expected to pass A Bug’s Life, Toy Story, and Cars 3.
The film is expected to remain number 1 at the box office next week with its only new competition The Bikeriders, which was originally a Disney project, comes out. Inside Out 2 should have a few more weeks of nice legs until Despicable Me 4 debuts on July 3.
Directed by Kelsey Mann (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Mark Nielsen, from a screenplay written by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein, and a story conceived by Mann and LeFauve. The film stars Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Diane Lane, and Kyle MacLachlan reprising their roles from the first film, with Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira, Ayo Edebiri, Lilimar, Grace Lu, Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Paul Walter Hauser joining the cast.
