Box Office Report for the Week of June 21

With no major releases beyond Jeff Nichols‘ The Bikeriders this weekend, Inside Out 2 continued to save this year’s dwindling box office with a historic second weekend, a first seen since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame! With a $100 million tally in its second weekend, the movie has raked in over $724 million worldwide and is well on its way to cross the $1 billion mark very soon.

I will also admit that I was too conservative when saying Despicable Me 4 would be the only movie crossing $1 billion this year, but audiences have responded very strongly to Pixar’s latest theatrical offering, hopefully giving Disney a big sigh of relief after one of their worst-ever years in 2023 with one flop after the other.

Inside Out 2 is now the best-ever second weekend for an animated film, the seventh-best second weekend of all time, and the first to cross over $100 million in its second week since Endgame. It is now also the highest-grossing movie of the year, surpassing Dune: Part Two substantially. Director Denis Villeneuve recently said it was sad that no movie could beat him for quite the longest time, but he’s likely now breathing a sigh of relief. Clearly, the box office (or moviegoing experience)’s demise was greatly exaggerated, and the film Twitter bubble has once again been proven wrong.

How did The Bikeriders fare this weekend? After being sold by Focus Features once Disney pulled it off their release schedule, the studio mounted a sizeable campaign and snagged a $14 million worldwide opening against a $35 to $40 million budget. It’s a pretty decent start considering that the film could have the opportunity to leg itself out…that is, if Universal doesn’t release the movie on VOD 17 days later, which has become a recurring theme (and problem) for the studio.

Next week should be interesting. With Inside Out 2 competing against A Quiet Place: Day One, the film may very well upset the Michael Sarnoski-directed horror picture and hold its top spot, while Kevin Costner releases Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 to the public after announcing he will no longer return to Paramount+’s Yellowstone. Kinds of Kindness also expands, but I’m more interested in seeing how well Nag Ashwin‘s Kalki 2898 AD performs. Dubbed the most expensive Indian production of all time, the movie will hit over 200 IMAX screens as of June 26 and share venues with the latest installment in A Quiet Place. Pre-sales have already hit over $2 million in the United States, with more probably coming as the film begins to play. All of this is great news. The movies are back, everyone!

Here is the full list of the top ten films of the weekend:

1. Inside Out 2 (Disney): $100M (-35%) – 4,440 theatres
2. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Sony): $18.8M (-44%) – 3,781 theatres
3. The Bikeriders (Focus Features): $10.0M – 2,642 theatres
4. The Garfield Movie (Sony): $3.6M (-24%) – 3,013 theatres
5. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Disney): $3.6M (-35%) – 2,410 theatres
6. IF (Paramount): $2.8M (-23%) – 2,504 theatres
7. The Exorcism (Emick): $2.4M – 2,240 theatres
8. Thelma (Magnolia Pictures): $2.2M – 1,290 theatres
9. The Watchers (Warner Bros): $1.9M (-45%) – 2,243 theatres
10. GHOST: RITE HERE RITE NOW (Trafalgar Releasing): $1.5M – 756 theatres

Source: Comscore