‘Inside Out 2’ surpasses ‘Dune 2’ as the highest-grossing film of 2024

Sorry, Dune: Part Two — the reign of Paul Atreides is officially over. The new box office queen is… a temperamental teenager.

Inside Out 2 has cinched its position as the highest grossing film of 2024 so far. Only two weeks into its release, the Pixar sequel has managed to draw in a record-breaking crowd, earning an additional $100 million for a domestic total of $355 million, per Comscore. This puts the animated pic well above the $282.1 million domestic gross of Dune: Part Two. 

On a global scale, Inside Out 2 has earned a grand total of $724 million to counter the Dune sequel’s $711 million.

Inside Out 2 returns audiences to the mind of a now teenage Riley, just as her emotional headquarters are undergoing a demolition to make room for some unexpected newcomers. Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale, replacing Bill Hader), and Disgust (Liza Lapira, replacing Mindy Kaling) must all learn to cope when Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser) arrive to takeover Riley’s teenage brain.

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The sequel to the 2015 Pixar film is now one of 7 titles to cross the $100 million mark in only its second week of release. The other movies include Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Jurassic World, and The Avengers.

Coming in second at the weekend box office, Bad Boys: Ride or Die fell another 44 percent but maintained its second place spot, earning another $18.7 million for a domestic haul of $146.9 million ($289 million global cume). The fourth entry in the Bad Boys franchise reunites Will Smith and Martin Lawrence for yet another action-packed, buddy-cop-comedy adventure.

Sitting pretty in third is The Bikeriders, a 1960s-set motorcycle gang drama from director Jeff Nichols. The star-studded film sees Austin Butler playing Benny, a strong but silent member of a Chicago motorcycle club who becomes torn between his allegiance to his wife, Kathy (Jodie Comer) and the club’s founder Johnny (Tom Hardy). Thus far, the film is revving up its engine to the tune of  a $10 million domestic gross. The Bikeriders earned another $3.9 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $13.9 million.

Elsewhere, The Garfield Movie held its No. 4 spot by adding $3.6 million to its $85 million total ($230 million globally). Rounding out the top five, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes dropped 35 percent, adding $3.6 million to its domestic haul of $164.3 million ($385 million globally).