Inside Out 2 Beats The Lion King at Worldwide Box Office

The 2024 Disney/Pixar sequel Inside Out 2 has overtaken Disney’s 2019 remake of The Lion King at the global box office. Inside Out 2 debuted in US theaters on June 14, 2024, and has since made more than $1.666 billion globally, surpassing The Lion’s King’s $1.6569 billion box office take.

Inside Out 2 overtakes 2019’s The Lion King in the worldwide box office

Inside Out 2 beat The Lion King remake last week at the worldwide box office. This comes as Inside Out 2 surpasses The Lion King’s total haul of $1.6569 billion from 2019. As of Sunday, September 1, Inside Out 2 has accumulated roughly $1.666.2 billion. The movie is now in ninth place on the list of highest-grossing films of all time. Avatar (2009) still holds the top spot with $2.923 billion. Avengers: Endgame is in second place with $2.797 billion. Avatar: The Way of Water is in third place with $2.320 billion. Other movies that come before Inside Out 2 on the list are Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Jurassic World.

Inside Out 2’s impressive box office returns come against a budget of $200 million. This means it was also cheaper to produce for Disney than their remake of The Lion King. The remake of the animated classic had a budget of $250–260 million.

The original Inside Out film came out in 2015 and made $858.8 million at the global box office. This was against a $175 million budget. The considerable improvement in Inside Out 2’s box office returns compared to that of the first film underscores how successful Disney’s overall plans for sequels, spin-offs, and remakes have been.

Summer 2024 has been a particularly great season for Disney. Besides Inside Out 2, the studio released Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (through 20th Century Studios), Young Woman and the Sea (Walt Disney Studios), Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel Studios), Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios), Kinds of Kindness (Searchlight Pictures), and The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Searchlight) in theaters. Standing out among those releases, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes made close to $400 million worldwide. Deadpool & Wolverine and Alien: Romulus are still in theaters like Inside Out 2. They have respectively made $1.258 billion and $283.5 billion as of last weekend. (via Deadline)