The weekend was a bit heartbreaking for the two players who picked The Bikeriders, as the widest of the new releases stalled out to a sub-$10M opening. Their summers are now basically over as they’ll get run over in any kind of Deviation tiebreaker.

No, this weekend was not about any new movies; it was about the juggernaut that is Inside Out 2. $101M in its SECOND weekend brings the new Pixar sensation to a ridiculous $356M… which already equals what the first movie earned in 2015. IO2 just had the best Second Weekend ever for an animated film (last year’s Super Mario Bros. Movie did $92M), and is now the highest grossing movie of 2024 both domestically and globally (Dune: Part Two did $282M / $711M). And for good measure, IO2 just became only the 7th film all time to earn $100M in its second weekend:

YearMovie2nd WkndTotal
2024Inside Out 2$101M???
2019Avengers: Endgame$147M$858M
2018Avengers: Infinity War$114M$678M
2018Black Panther$111M$700M
2015Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens$149M$936M
2015Jurassic World$106M$652M
2012The Avengers$103M$623M

With the best second weekend hold of the summer (-34.4%), IO2 now sits atop our Top 10. Based on the above data we could very well be looking at the next $600M movie, of which there are currently 14 total. Below are what each of them earned in their 2nd weekends (ranked by Total box office):

YearMovie2nd WkndTotal
2015Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens$149M$936M
2019Avengers: Endgame$147M$858M
2021Spider-Man: No Way Home$84M$814M
2009Avatar$75M$785M
2022Top Gun: Maverick$90M$718M
2018Black Panther$111M$700M
2022Avatar: The Way of Water$63M$684M
2018Avengers: Infinity War$114M$678M
1997Titanic$35M$674M
2015Jurassic World$106M$652M
2023Barbie$93M$636M
2012The Avengers$103M$623M
2017Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi$71M$620M
2018Incredibles 2$80M$608M

Top 10 IN

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Top 10 OUT

  • none

Holdover News

  • Excellent holds all around for the remaining Top 10 movies, as only Strangers and Tarot didn’t do sub-50%.
  • Other than the #1 and #2 flip flop, every other movie held position.
  • Another $3.8M for Apes, but with IO2 quickly doubling up its total, Apes is no longer King and now sits at #2.
  • Bad Boys is still at #3 after another $18M, and could be one spot higher after next weekend.
  • IF had an amazing hold of -24.7% and is close to crossing $110M.
  • Fall Guy crossed $90M as expected, and it should be noted that aside from weekend #2 (-50.6%) every other weekend has been a sub-50% hold.
  • Garfield had the best hold of the weekend with $3.7M at -20.9% and now sits at $85M. It’ll have no problem moving past Fall Guy.
  • Furiosa continues to make millions and should eventually scratch its way past $70M. Still so sad.

Next Weekend: The final weekend of June should be explosive as we get both A Quiet Place: Day One (picked by 37 players) and Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (11 players). While Quiet Place doesn’t yet have any reviews, Horizon 1 is unfortunately getting crushed early with poor critic reviews (47% overall with 27% from the Top Critics). Uh oh.

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