Box Office: ‘Inside Out 2’ Passes ‘Lion King’ in Top 10, ‘Despicable Me 4’ Hits $900M

Summer’s big animation blockbusters continue their hot streaks at the box office even with fall just weeks away. Pixar/Disney’s latest smash hit Inside Out 2 is climbing up the Top 10 all-time movie rankings, reaching $1,667,145,541 worldwide after the holiday weekend. In the last frame, the sequel became the first animated movie ever to hit $1 billion in overseas box office, and is already the highest-grossing movie of all time.

The new total makes Inside Out 2 the ninth-highest-grossing movie of any genre of all time, edging past Disney’s “live-action” 2019 The Lion King ($1.662B) and edging up to 2015’s Jurassic World ($1.671B). The list is currently split between four $1B+ movies and six with over $2B, including Avatar (2009) at No. 1 with $2.923B.

Disney is toasting the success of both the Pixar flick and Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine, which are so far the only billion-dollar blockbusters to hit theaters this year.

In other animated box office news, Illumination sequel Despicable Me 4 has reached another milestone, mounting the $900M mark with $915.2M. Having helped push the franchise to infamy as the first animation collection to reach $5B, DM4 is the third highest-grossing Despicable Me movie and the fifth in the full Despicable Me/Minions roll call (so far). Domestically, the Gru revue was running for its 10th weekend over Labor Day, taking in an estimated $5.55M over four days.