It was a big weekend globally for animated movies as Disney and Pixar’s “ Inside Out 2 ” and Universal and Illumination’s “ Despicable Me 4 ” cleaned up at the international box office . “Inside Out 2,” already the biggest hit of 2024, continued to climb up the list of all-time animated releases, passing “Minions” to become the fifth-highest grossing film in the genre with its $1.22 billion global haul.
Over the weekend, “Inside Out 2” earned $78.3 million from 45 major markets. Running slightly behind, “Despicable Me 4” earned an impressive $73 million over the weekend across 73 markets.
That pushes the Universal and Illumination film’s foreign grosses to $106.9 million and its worldwide haul to $229.5 million.
In the U.S., the animated sequel, which sees Steve Carell return as Gru, and pits him against his “Anchorman” co-star Will Ferrell, playing a French supervillain, topped the Fourth of July box office , earning $122.
6 million stateside. Looking around the world, it also played well in Mexico, where it opened to $12.6 million, as well as Brazil ($5.
9 million), Spain ($5.7 million), the Netherlands ($2.6 million), Indonesia ($2.
6 million) and Poland ($2.5 million). Universal said that the film is performing roughly in line with “Despicable Me 3” and just off of the foreign results for “Minions.
” It wasn’t just family films making a killing. Paramount’s “A Quiet Place: Day One” added $21.4 million from 67 territories, incl.
