A Quiet Place: Day One opened with big numbers this weekend, but it had to settle for #2 at the box office behind Inside Out 2 . The Inside Out sequel held onto the #1 spot for a third weekend with $57.4 million, down just 43% from last weekend’s $101.
2 million take. The numbers add up to the eight-best third weekend of all time at the box office, just short of The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s $59.
9 million third weekend from April of last year. Inside Out 2 is continuing to pace ahead of all other Pixar films; the highest-grossing Pixar movie of all-time, The Incredibles 2 , was at $440 million at this point, while Inside Out 2 has $469.3 million domestically and has passed the billion-dollar mark worldwide with $1.
014 billion. That strongly suggests that the movie will be able to top Incredibles 2’s $607.9 million domestic total, though it’s not a sure thing yet.
Either way, this is a massive hit for the studio against a $200 million budget. Meanwhile, A Quiet Place: Day One wasn’t far behind. The horror prequel scared up $53 million, passing the first film’s $50.
2 million start for the best opening for the franchise to date. It’s an overperformance for a film that was expected to take in $45 million to $50 million heading into the weekend and speaks to the strength of the franchise’s goodwill with moviegoers. There were reasons to suspect that Day One might open a touch lower.
Prequels don’t often outperform the originals, especially when there’s an entire.