Battle at the Box Office 7/1/24
Inside Out 2 remained on top of the box office for a third weekend, but A Quiet Place: Day One was a close second-place finisher.
Inside Out 2 took in another $57.5 million, bringing it to $469.4 million domestically and over $1 billion worldwide, the first movie of 2024 to pass that mark globally. Inside Out 2 is currently tracking ahead of Incredibles 2 domestically. If it continues its pace, it will top that movie to become Pixar’s highest-grossing film of all time and make over $600 million domestically. The only hurdle is the direct competition from Despicable Me 4 this coming holiday weekend, so we’ll have to see what kind of impact that has on Inside Out 2.
A Quiet Place: Day One almost topped Inside Out 2 but opened shy in second place with $52.2 million. It’s the best opening for the A Quiet Place series, coming in $2 million higher than the original A Quiet Place in 2018. It’s also around $19 million more than the opening of IF, which came from the mastermind behind the A Quiet Place series, John Krasinski, who ceded directing duties for Day One to Michael Sarnoski. A Quiet Place: Day One has just over $97 million worldwide.
Horizon: An American Saga opened in third place with $11 million. It got a B- CinemaScore, which doesn’t bode well for its legs for the next few weeks. Both chapters of the Western epic cost a combined $100 million, with a huge chunk coming from star and director Kevin Costner personally. The runtime was probably a significant factor in limiting the number of times it could run at theaters and probably keeping a big chunk of the audience home waiting for it to stream. It’s unclear if Chapter 1 will still be in theaters when Chapter 2 arrives in August, but if this first part dies quickly in the next week or two, Chapter 2 could be a disaster.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die and Kalki 2898 AD rounded out the top five. Bad Boys grossed just shy of $332 million worldwide and is the ninth biggest movie of the year globally. Kalki 2898 AD is an Indian sci-fi action epic that opened with $5.2 million in 1,049 theaters and has $12 million worldwide.
Further down the list, The Bikeriders had a fairly steep dropoff from last week’s opening, falling 66% to seventh place with $3.3 million, totaling $16.2 million for two weeks out. Kinds of Kindness expanded significantly and moved up into the top 10 in ninth place with $1.5 million and just over $2 million domestically for two weeks out.
A Quiet Place: Day One actually took the Per Theater average getting beaten in total gross by Inside Out 2. The film made $14,078 in each of the 3,708 theaters it played in over the weekend.
