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The Inside Out franchise may not be finished just yet. Inside Out 2 director Kelsey Mann and producer Mark Nielsen recently talked about the film at the Critics’ Choice Awards, hinting that there’s plenty of potential for another sequel.

‘This world is so rich. You can go down so many roads,’ Nielsen told. ‘There are so many emotions to explore. There are further stages in Riley’s life. You never know.’ That sounds promising, but before you get too excited, he also admitted that there’s nothing officially in the works yet.

‘There’s nothing in progress right now,‘ he said. But with how well the last movie performed, a third film seems like an obvious next step.

Inside Out 2 smashed records when it hit theaters in 2024. It raked in an unbelievable $1.699 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Disney is known for following the money,...

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No animated movie dominated 2024 quite like Pixar’s “Inside Out 2.” The sequel, which saw lead character Riley, now a teenager, dealing with brand-new emotions like Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), Envy (Ayo Edebiri) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser), was an instant sensation. The follow-up to 2015’s “Inside Out” (which won the Best Animated Feature Oscar) is now the top-grossing animated movie of all time and the eighth highest-grossing film ever and has appeared on a number of year-end best-of lists. For director Kelsey Mann, the only emotion he’s feeling is joy.

“To have the response be what it was for this film was beyond what I had hoped for,” Mann said. “I hoped that people would go to the theaters and see it. And man, did they show up. It was apparent from that first weekend that people were excited to see the next chapter in Riley’s life.

Walker Scobell’s Percy Jackson will get the chance to take on “The Sea of Monsters” just like Logan Lerman before him in the film version.

Disney+’s television series, based on Rick Riordan’s books, was renewed for a second season in February 2024.

Based on Riordan’s second book in the original “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” quintet, the second season of Disney’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” has already made some key casting announcements.

When will Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 come out?

Disney revealed at D23 2024 that the series will be streaming in 2025.

Is Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 in production?

Yes, the show has over a week of production under its belt as of D23, 2024. It shoots in Vancouver.

What is Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 about?

Season 2 of the book-based show will follow Rick Riordan’s The Sea of Monsters, in...

If you managed to get through Pixar's summer blockbuster, Inside Out 2, without actually or almost crying then consider yourself lucky. The animated hit follows Riley's (Kensington Tallman) five emotions from the first film — Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Liza Lapira), and Fear (Tony Hale) — as they meet four new additions to headquarters: Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser), and Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos). Joy and Anxiety clash for control of Riley's mind, and their conflict finally culminates in the film's most heartbreaking scene, when Riley has an all-out anxiety attack in the middle of hockey tryouts.

Inside Out gets a new fan-made, live-action concept trailer, imagining Sadie Sink and Jenna Ortega in lead roles. Released in 2015, Inside Out hails from directors Pete Doctor and Ronnie Del Carmen, with a story that follows Riley and her various emotions most notably Amy Poehler's Joy as she moves to a city and new school. After the first film was a major hit with audiences and critics alike, Riley's story continued in Disney's Inside Out 2, which hit theaters earlier this summer and introduced a handful of new animated characters.

Multiverse of Movies now imagines what Inside Out would look like if it made the jump to live-action with an AI-generated concept trailer. The trailer features a mix of new and familiar cast members, with some members of the franchise's voice cast becoming live-action versions of their animated characters. Bill Hader, for example, who voices Fear, is imagined as...

After the immense success of Inside Out 2, a fan-made concept trailer imagines how the story of the franchise would play out in a live-action film. It's the latest video to utilize AI to picture what a live-action adaptation of an animated movie may look like.

The video was posted on YouTube by Multiverse of Movies. It's the same channel that has previously shared live-action movie concept trailers for animated shows like The Simpsons, South Park, and Futurama, as well as video games such as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Other Pixar films have also gotten the treatment, including Toy Story and The Incredibles. Similarly, Inside Out has now gotten a concept trailer of its own, which was made with the assistance of AI-generated imagery.

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Inside Out 2 almost featured another emotion to stir Riley's internal conflict alongside Anxiety and Shame.

Inside Out 2 is an excellent sequel that builds on the original films premise, as Riley (Kensington Tallman) hits puberty. An array of more complex emotions are added to the mix, with Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adle Exarchopoulos), and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser) joining original characters Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Tony Hale), Disgust (Liza Lapira), and Anger (Lewis Black). Though the emotions are brought to life impeccably, the film is missing something that elevated the originals emotional impact Bing Bong (Richard Kind).

Zia Anger first endeavored to make a film years ago, shooting a project titled Always All Ways, Anne Marie on a shoestring budget with friends. However, this debut feature was never completed. In My First Film, Anger revisits that unfinished work and creative period through a uniquely experimental lens.

Playing with fiction and nonfiction, the movie incorporates reenactments starring Odessa Young as Vita, a stand-in for Anger. Through Vita’s experiences directing that long-ago production and subsequent reflections, My First Film offers an artfully unflinching perspective on the difficulties of being a young female filmmaker.

By blending scenes from her actual first shoot with new material, Anger layers intimate retrospection over dynamic recreations. We watch as Vita navigates a chaotic set, dealing with inexperience, interpersonal frictions, and her own growing pains.

Between location sequences, her voiceover analyzes past decisions and outcomes with candid wisdom. Flashing between time periods, Anger crafts...

Paul Schrader is the latest “Joker: Folie à Deux” critic.

The auteur seemingly couldn’t find any semblance of his “Taxi Driver” or Martin Scorsese’s “King of Comedy” in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” despite director Todd Phillips saying both inspired the Oscar-winning first film, 2019’s “Joker.” Frequent Schrader collaborator Scorsese also executive produced “Joker” but did not return for the sequel.

Schrader told Interview magazine, while in discussion with Jeremy O. Harris, that he couldn’t even sit in the theater for “Folie à Deux” past a (non-consecutive) 25 minutes.

“I see who’s coming up. I go to the multiplex,” Schrader said of his pastimes when not writing and directing. “I saw ‘Joker: Folie à Deux.’ I saw about 10 or 15 minutes of it. I left, bought something, came back, saw another 10 minutes. That was enough.”

He added that “Folie à Deux” is a “really bad musical.”

In fact, Schrader...

There’s no two ways around it: “Inside Out 2” is a major hit for Disney. The film’s trailers wracked up millions of views on YouTube and other video-hosting sites, and the enthusiasm carried over once it was released in theaters. “Inside Out 2” is the highest-grossing movie of 2024 so far, and now Disney has announced it’s become the biggest film premiere on Disney+ of the year as well.

Key Details: “Inside Out 2” garnered 30.5 million views on Disney+ in its first five days of availability. Its predecessor was watched 121 million times since the teaser for “Inside Out 2” was released. The film’s records are likely to be broken by “Deadpool & Wolverine. Sign Up Now $7.99+ / month disneyplus.com

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“Inside Out 2” is already the highest-grossing animated film of all time, pulling in almost $1.7 billion at the global box office.

The animated sequel Inside Out 2 continues to find great success after its recent debut on Disney+. After dominating the box office as one of the highest-earning movies ever released, the film has become an instant hit on streaming.

Per ComicBook.com, Inside Out 2 pulled in 30.5 million views on Disney+ within its first five days of availability. This is the second-biggest opening for a theatrical film on Disney+ in the streaming platform's history, behind only 2021's Encanto. Notably, Inside Out 2 still set the record for the most-watched Disney+ title in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

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After its astounding box office success, Inside Out 2 has dethroned a Disney remake as one of the biggest movies worldwide.

During its run in theaters, Inside Out 2 became the highest-grossing animated film of all time.

The highest grossing animated movie of all time, Disney’s Inside Out 2, drew 30.5 million views worldwide on Disney+ in its first five days, not only becoming the No. 1 film premiere Ytd, but even more.

The sequel dropped on Disney+ on Sept. 25, repping a 104 theatrical window for the movie between cinemas and the streaming service.

Inside Out 2‘s viewership is the best film premiere on Disney+ since Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Encanto (2021), and the No. 1 film premiere of all time in Emea and Latam (Latin America).

Since the first Inside Out 2 teaser trailer premiered to record numbers, there have been more than 121 million views of Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out (2015) globally on Disney+.

The movie opened on June 14 in theaters to $295M WW, the third debut for an animated movie ever, returning Disney to its pre-Covid box office glory. That sequel directed...

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: the music videos from Zia Anger. What's in a name? Just like the emotion that is her last name, Zia Anger's music video protagonists seem on the edge of exploding. On the verge of bursting their emotion out in the open. It seems curious that Anger herself only recently made her first feature film, aptly named My First Film, as she herself has been taking a long build-up to the Big Explosion that is a first feature. It is only fitting that all her music videos to date seem like little bursts of energy. There was a reason why Anger, for the longest time, seemed your...

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The box office smash Inside Out 2, from Disney and Pixar, is confirmed for Disney+ UK at the end of this very month.

Currently sitting as the biggest film of the year at the global box office, the record-shattering sequel Inside Out 2 has given Disney, Pixar and multiplexes one hell of a shot in the arm this year. For Pixar in particular it’s been good to see, given how Disney has shortchanged so many of its films in recent years by letting them bypass cinemas and going direct to its Disney+streaming service.

In the case of Inside Out 2, it is going to streaming of course, but only several months after its cinema debut. In fact, we’ve got word now that Disney will be putting the film on its Disney+ service from 25th September 2024. That’s two weeks away from the point this story is being written.

Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is set to begin streaming on Disney+ on September 25, the studio announced via its social media channels on Thursday.

The film hits streaming following an astonishing theatrical debut in June, which has made it the highest-grossing film of the year at over $1.6 billion worldwide. Marking the feature directorial debut of Kelsey Mann, the sequel has also broken records to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, as well as the eighth highest-grossing film of all time, and the first animated feature to gross over $1 billion overseas.

The coming-of-age film follows up Inside Out, Pixar’s 2015 Oscar winner directed by Pete Docter, which won hearts with its depiction of a young girl named Riley and the complex emotions she faces, all of which are brought to life on screen. The sequel finds Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result.

Make room for new emotions when the top animated movie of all time, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2, makes its streaming debut on Disney+ on September 25. Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and celebrated by critics, the heartwarming sequel has already proven to be a blockbuster smash hit.

Inside Out 2 is the highest-grossing animated film of all time, the fastest animated film to reach $1 billion globally, and is currently the 8th highest-grossing film in global box office history. The sequel has grossed $1.675 billion at the worldwide box office, with $652 million coming from North American theaters and $1.023 billion from international markets.

Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions!

Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts,...

“Inside Out 2” is coming home.

The Pixar Animation Studios feature, which is now the highest-grossing animated movie of all time, has set a streaming release date on Disney+ for Sept. 25.

In “Inside Out 2” Riley, now 13 (and voiced by Kensington Tallman), goes away to hockey camp while the original emotions in her head are contending with the arrival of a group of new emotions – Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser). With Joy and the other original emotions kicked out of headquarters, they have to traverse Riley’s mind and regain control, while Riley, in the real world, is faced with major challenges herself.

In addition to the Disney+ date, the streamer launched its Blockbuster Offer where now through Sept. 27, new and returning customers can get Disney+ Basic for only $1.99/month for three months.

While initial estimates for “Inside Out 2” had...

Jimmy Kimmel doesnt pull any punches when it comes to taking shots at Donald Trump, and Tuesday nights presidential debate gave him the perfect opportunity to win the internet thanks to the debate streaming on Disney+.

Kimmel and Trump have sparred in public on many occasions, most notably when Kimmel read out one of the former presidents Truth Social posts while hosting the Oscars. The post by Trump called out Kimmel as the worst host in the history of the Academy Awards, and Kimmel basked in the laughter of the audience as he ridiculed Trump live on air. The late-night talk show host also weaponized his show's monologue following the result of Trump's recent criminal trial in May.

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The Apprentice premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and emerged as a potential awards season favorite for star Sebastian Stan.

Kamala Harris earned praise from Hollywood following her first presidential debate against Donald Trump, which many in the industry viewed as a resounding triumph for Harris’ campaign. Mark Ruffalo, for instance, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he was initially “anxious” for the debate but the results could not have been more positive.

“What is clear is that Kamala not only has a vision for the future and lifting America up but she is just so much even-tempered and so much smarter that Trump,” Ruffalo wrote. “She crushed him.”

“It was like watching Muhammad Ali: she baited him and then let him swing wildly until he sputtered out,” he added in a follow-up post on X.

“Parks and Recreation” favorite Nick Offerman was even more blunt in his assessment of the debate in favor of Harris: “That was a good old-fashioned ass-whupping”

“This man is weak, stupid and delusional!

Odessa Young knew right away she wanted to be a part of “My First Film,” director Zia Anger’s retelling about her first feature, 2010’s “Always All Ways, Anne Marie,” failing to be accepted to any film festivals.

Young plays a fictionalized Anger named Vita. The movie follows Vita making a scrappy independent film in her hometown, and her unraveling as she has to cope with a burdensome boyfriend who wants them to become first-time parents.

Young was first introduced to “My First Film” when Anger toured the story as a performance art piece. “I received an email from [producer] Taylor Shung and there was a script and a very nice letter rom Zia,” Young tells me. “I was already in it at that point because I’d been hearing whispers of the project and that they were interested in me so I was really excited about it.”

A week or two later,...

There has never been a movie like Zia Anger’s My First Film, which premiered at Cph Dox - although it is primarily a hybrid, leaning towards fiction - and which has just landed on Mubi after a tour of festivals. But is it a good thing? Many critics seem to be quite enthusiastic about it…

Its title pretty much answers the question of what it is about, but there is a bit of history to be dealt with here. Namely, Anger’s intended feature debut Always All Ways, Anne Marie was a very difficult production on the verge of being considered “haunted”, and, after it was finally finished, it failed to secure a festival premiere and any form of distribution. The filmmaker went on with her career, directing music videos and shorts. At one point she also converted her experiences with her haunted first film into a live performance piece.

Zia Anger’s My First Film blends documentary and feature style to create a personal visual essay about the exhausting yet exhilarating process of making a film. Anger’s first film, “Always All Ways, Anne Marie,” was rejected by over fifty film festivals. She then went on to create an interactive screenlife film, and the influence of the interactive style is visible in her recent work. It is difficult to say when Anger’s personal life ends and where Vita, the protagonist’s fictional life begins, and that is perhaps why we are repeatedly told that it is a true story—well, not entirely. Vita, a twenty-five-year-old passionate young director, travels to her hometown to shoot her first film with her friends and family. When you have watched hundreds of films, it is a challenge to find your own voice. Even if not consciously done, you end up borrowing styles from your favorite directors.

If you’ve already dived into our massive fall movie preview, then you have a strong sense of what to have on your radar over the next four months. Now let’s examine September a little closer, already including a few new additions since our fall preview went up. Of course, from Venice to TIFF to NYFF, much of the month will be dedicated to our festival coverage, which you can follow here.

12. The Featherweight (Robert Kolodny; Sept. 20)

With the never-ending glut of biopics, particularly those centered in the world of sports, it can often feel like there’s not much new territory to cover. While Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw recently showed how a singular vision can elevate the genre, another film taking place partially inside the ring breathes new life. Robert Kolodny, who worked on the cinematography team of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Procession,...

Filmmaker Zia Anger takes an innovative approach to exploring her artistic journey in the new movie “My First Film.” Rather than telling a straightforward narrative, the film blends behind-the-scenes footage, fictional scenes, and commentary to examine Anger’s experience making her debut feature over a decade ago. Starring Odessa Young as a character named Vita who represents Anger, the movie follows Vita’s struggles completing her movie amid personal and work challenges.

At its core, the film focuses on Anger’s unsuccessful first movie from long ago. That project never found success on the festival circuit. Now, Anger looks back on that time and her emotions through “My First Film.” She combines memories with new material to chronicle the messy process of creation. Young immerses herself in the role of Vita, blurring the line between acting and channeling real feelings.

Anger wanted to create a unique tapestry showing the experience of art-making.

On a Zoom with writer/director Zia Anger and actor Odessa Young to chat their new film, “My First Film,” the lovefest that exists between the two is immediately clear.

The amount of respect and admiration between the filmmaking and star is palpable as they talk about undertaking Anger’s “My First Film,” based on her 2019 multimedia art project of the same name, which was itself about her lost film “Always All Ways, Annie Marie.” Young plays Vita, a filmmaker who looks back at making her movie — about a woman played by her friend Dina (Devon Ross) — who gets pregnant and decides to leave home. It also looks at Vita’s own history with her queer parents and extraordinary conception story, as she was raised by two mothers and a gay father, who brought over his sperm during a blizzard for Anger’s mothers to use to conceive her. “My First Film,...

Summer’s over. Looks like it’s time to get back to work. And by work, we mean some serious movie watching. Luckily September doesn’t disappoint. We have everything from the highly-anticipated Megaopolis, the self-funded opus from Francis Ford Coppola, to the star-studded Netflix affair His Three Daughters, to the return of the king of tight, gnarly thrillers, Jeremy Saulnier, with his new one, Rebel Ridge. Oh, and a doc about psychics from a Fast-Track alum, with Lana Wilson’s Look Into My Eyes. Looks like the fall is shaping up to be quite the movie season. Now get out there and start watching!

A Different Man

When You Can Watch: September 20

Where You Can Watch: Theaters (Limited)

Director: Aaron Schimberg

Cast: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Adam Pearson

Why We’re Excited: Yet another selection in this month’s Film Independent Presents series, writer-director Schimberg’s latest offering is...

All movies are made by people, but few feel as guided by the hand of fate as Zia Anger’s My First Film. A certain subset of plugged-in cinephiles might recognize the name of the project from its many years as a performance piece, starting in 2018 at Brooklyn’s Spectacle Theater before going on tour and eventually evolving to be a shared online experience during the pandemic. Using the footage from her would-be directorial debut, Always All Ways, Anne Marie, which IMDb declared “abandoned,” Anger constructed an interactive screenlife film that interrogated her fraught relationship with the material.

This initial iteration of My First Film channeled Anger’s frustration with the filmmaking and festival ecosystems into something that could establish a more honest connection with an audience. With her back to the audience and a TextEdit document open alongside QuickTime files of her aborted freshman feature, Anger provided an unflinching...

Zia Anger’s name has not broken into the mainstream; it’s instead been a kind of totem for underground film artistry, to whatever extent that even exists anymore. Her presentation-based My First Film earned traction as the ultimate vision / confession of artistic failure and regret, making somewhat peculiar the existence of My First Film, a feature debut-of-sorts that details her younger self’s failure to launch a filmmaking career. Or someone like her: the lead character is Vita, a shortsighted and temperamental young director failing to control cast, crew, ideas, or impulses; but present in the film, too, is Zia, who reflects on this difficult time in the character’s (her?) life.

Fear not any risk of complication. Conceptually fluid and nimbly assembled, My First Film makes legible––dare I say universal?––thwarted dreams and personal embarrassment vis-à-vis its interplay of Anger’s actual work and Vita’s staged endeavors.

Inside Out 2 is still going strong on the big screen, out-grossing new films and climbing domestic chart. The sequel surpassed the original's earnings with impressive slim declines each weekend, surpassing Pixar's all-time best. The potential is there to climb even higher on the domestic gross chart, possibly beating Jurassic World for 10th place all-time.

Even though it's been in theaters two months, Disney's Inside Out 2 is still raking in the cash, as evidenced by the fact that, in its eighth weekend, it out-grossed newcomer Harold and the Purple Crayon. The Pixar sequel netted $6.7 million this weekend, making yet another slim weekend-to-weekend decline of just 22.3%. This puts it at $626.9 million which, according to Box Office Mojo, 12th on the all-time domestic gross chart, a little over $3 million ahead of 2012's fellow Disney film The Avengers.

That's not adjusted for inflation, but wildly impressive nonetheless. This is especially true...

Emotions are riding high at Pixar Studios as Inside Out 2 overtakes The Avengers as one of Hollywood’s Top 10 highest-grossing movies worldwide! Several weeks into the animated sequel’s release, Inside Out 2 feels joyous. With a global total of $1.524B, it surpasses Furious 7 ($1.515B) and The Avengers ($1.521B) to claim the 10th spot on the all-time list.

Inside Out 2 is earning plenty of domestic dollars but is also a smash overseas with $905.1M. It’s the highest-grossing film ever in Mexico. Astonishingly, the international total does not include Japan, where the film opens today. In other words, a whole different market is waiting to experience Inside Out 2 and add to Pixar’s coffers.

Inside Out 2 is one of the biggest Hollywood successes of all time for many factors. In addition to being a family-friendly affair, the film taps into what Pixar does best: create...

Animated motion picture history is upon us, friends! Pixar‘s Inside Out 2 is the highest-grossing animated film ever after surpassing Disney’s Frozen 2 at the global box office. The emotionally charged sequel achieved this milestone after six weeks of release, with a total domestic value of $601 million and $861 million internationally, totaling $1.46 billion! This astonishing achievement unseats Disney’s Frozen 2 after the sing-a-long sequel banked $1.45 billion at the box office. Disney’s The Lion King remake made an astounding $1.65M, but the Jon Favreau-directed film is technically a live-action CGI hybrid.

Looking at the numbers, Inside Out 2 beat Greta Gerwig’s Barbie in ticket sales, becoming the 13th-biggest movie ever. It is also the fastest animated movie to surpass the $1 billion mark after 19 days of release. Moreover, Pixar’s sequel is the highest-grossing film of 2024.

Inside Out 2 is one of the biggest Hollywood successes of all time for many factors.

Disney is jumping for Joy. That’s because the studio’s emotion-laden “Inside Out 2” has surpassed “Frozen II” to stand as the highest-grossing animated film in history.

After six weeks of release, “Inside Out 2” has generated $601 million domestically and $861 million internationally, bringing its global tally to a staggering $1.46 billion. “Frozen II” was bigger than the very successful original 2013 film and collected a mighty $1.45 billion during its theatrical run in 2019.

In terms of global ticket sales, “Inside Out 2” just overtook “Barbie” ($1.446 billion) as the 13th-biggest movie of all time. Among its many records, the Pixar sequel is the fastest animated film to cross the $1 billion benchmark, having done so in 19 days. It’s also the highest-grossing movie of 2024 to date, and the only one this year to join the billion-dollar club.

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Joy must be working overtime in the minds of Disney’s higher-ups, because Inside Out 2 continues to make money. Heading into Fourth of July weekend, the film has stayed at number one and looks to drop off small again, even with challenger Despicable Me 4. But before the film released, fans had to deal with one of the new emotions introduced in the film: anxiety. And that’s because Disney Pixar was messing with the formula that made the first film so wonderful by switching out the voices for two of the central character.

The first Inside Out from 2015 focused on Joy (Amy Poehler) and her opposite Sadness (Phyllis Smith), two of the emotions living inside the head of pre-teen Riley. The two learn to deal with one another as Riley moves with her parents from Minnesota to California, which upsets her otherwise calm life.

But they aren’t...

Talk about a mood booster. Disney and Pixar’s emotion-laden “Inside Out 2” is the first film of the year to hit $1 billion at the global box office.

After 19 days of release, the animated sequel has grossed $469.3 million in North America and $545.5 million internationally for a worldwide tally of $1.015 billion. It’s one of 11 animated films to join the billion-dollar club (eight of which are Disney titles), and it’s the fastest animated release to do so.

When “Inside Out 2” opened in theaters on June 14, the film shattered expectations with $151 million domestically and overtook “Dune: Part 2” ($711 million) as the biggest opening of the year. It was also the first movie since last July’s “Barbie” ($162 million) to debut above $100 million. Since then, the second “Inside Out” has retained the top spot on box office charts for three consecutive weekends and became the highest-grossing movie domestically and globally of 2024. Earlier this week,...

Inside Out 2 surpasses Dune: Part 2 at the box office, earning $835 million worldwide in its first two weeks. Amy Poehler, who voices Joy, constantly pushed Pixar for a sequel, which explores universal experiences of adolescence. Inside Out 2 follows Riley through high school, introducing new emotions like Anxiety, Envy, and Nostalgia.

Inside Out 2 became the biggest film of the year last week, surpassing Dune: Part 2 at the box office with a staggering $835 million dollars earned worldwide in its first two weeks, and its a sequel that star Amy Poehler says she constantly pushed Pixar to make. Released in 2015, the first Inside Out film took in $857 million worldwide, making it the seventh highest grossing movie of the year. With Inside Out 2 still in its theatrical infancy, theres no doubt the sequel, which stars Poehler as Joy, will easily surpass its predecessor.

Speaking with People, Poehler says that...

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Inside Out 2 is the latest offering from Pixar Animation, expanding on the story told in the original 2015 film. Set a few years after the events of Inside Out, the sequel follows Riley Andersen as she prepares to begin high school, where she worries she won't fit in. Audiences reunite with Riley's core cast of basic emotions, including Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale), and Disgust (Liza Lapira), who all try to help her navigate this difficult new era of her life. However, they are challenged by a series of new, more complex emotions, led by Anxiety (Maya Hawke), who tries to totally reimagine Riley's personality.

After only a short time in theaters, Inside Out 2...

Inside Out 2 Box Office (Italy): Beats Avengers: Endgame(Photo Credit – Instagram)

Inside Out 2 is now the highest-grossing film of 2024 as it has surpassed Timothee Chalamet’s sci-fi saga Dune: Part Two. The box office performance of this Pixar animation for Disney is insane in one word. It is doing equally well overseas. The film has beaten Avengers: Endgame in Italian cinemas and emerged as the biggest Monday of all time for Hollywood locally. Scroll below for the deets.

The sequel to the 2015 movie Inside Out featured Amy Poehler as Joy, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, Bill Hader as Fear, Lewis Black as Anger, and Mindy Kaling as Disgust. In the sequel, Amy, Lewis, and Phyllis returned to reprise their roles, while Bill and Mindy were replaced by Tony Hale and Liza Lapira. As Riley becomes a teenager and hits puberty, four new emotions are introduced in the movie.

2024 has been a terribly slow year for the box office, with only a few films becoming worthy of being called a blockbuster. Disney-Pixars tentpole release, Inside Out 2 has blown previous hits out of the water and is this years most commercially successful film.

Per Variety, Inside Out 2s opening weekend has already surpassed some of 2024s best-selling films like Dune: Part Two and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. In the first 8 days since its release, the sequel to Inside Out has made $285.6 million in the domestic box office. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire topped out at $132 million domestically and Dune: Part Two, the previous reigning film, couldnt overcome the $282.1 million mark. Inside Out 2 has now reached $724 million worldwide, overtaking the $711 total of Dune: Part Two.

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Pixar's newest release, Inside Out 2, officially had one of the studio's highest-grossing opening weekends, achieving the success that Pixar has now come to expect. This long-awaited sequel is all about growing up and mental health, focusing on Riley's (Kensington Tallman) emotions as she matures. The film introduces Anxiety (Maya Hawke) into the mix, as Riley tries to figure out who she is and loses parts of herself literally her Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale), and Disgust (Liza Lapira) which are all pushed away by the overwhelming nature of Anxiety. The story shows Riley growing up and navigating new situations as new emotions join the team, forcing the group in her head to learn to work together despite their differences.

Following the theatrical debut of Inside Out 2, Pixar boss Pete Docter finally gave a major update about Disney+s Inside Out spinoff series, which was first reported over a year ago. Docter, whos best known for his works on Monsters, Inc., Up and Soul, originally directed and co-wrote Pixars Oscar-winning 2015 movie Inside Out.

During a recent interview with EW, Docter shared the first details regarding the untitled Inside Out series. He revealed that the show would center around the crew responsible for creating Rileys dreams, which was first teased during the first installment. Docter also confirmed that theyre currently targeting a Spring 2025 release date for the Disney+ spinoff, since theyve already completed post-production work on the upcoming project. "We have finished. It's coming out next spring," he said. "I'm not sure that there's been a specific release date, but in the first film, remember we go to Dream Production...

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Kelly Mann has reflected on why so many of the emotions in Inside Out 2 otehr than Joy seem negative. The director says that he considers them to be positive emotions after doing research on how they are psychologically trying to help. The director's realization mimics the character arc of the original Inside Out.

The director of Inside Out 2 has weighed in on how he changed his mind about the seemingly negative emotions joining the fray in the new movie. The new movie, which is already a record-breaking smash hit, is a sequel to the 2015 Pixar movie, which followed the lives of the anthropomorphized emotions inside the head of a young girl named Riley, specifically Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. The new roster of Inside Out 2 emotions that arrives to shake things up once Riley enters puberty in the sequel include Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment.

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Disney and Pixars Inside Out 2 has got cinemagoers right in the feels! The sequel to the 2015 original movie, the second installment takes audiences back to the mind of Riley Anderson (Kensington Tallman), now a spunky 13-year-old ready to take her new middle school by storm. Teetering on the edge of puberty, Rileys emotional headquarters faces a full-blown riot as her trusty childhood emotions - Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale), and Disgust (Liza Lapira) - receive unwanted visitors.

Everyone is getting emotional about Pixar‘s Inside Out 2 and its outstanding box office performance. Shining bright with $334M+ worldwide after one weekend in cinemas, fans of Pixar’s latest trip into Riley Andersen’s mind are already wondering when we’ll get another film in the series. While Pixar has not mentioned Inside Out 3, that’s not keeping Paul Walter Hauser, who voices Embarrassment in the movie, from sharing who he thinks should play a new emotion in a sequel. According to Hauser, Jon Hamm should join the cast of Inside Out 3 as the voice of Competition.

“I wanted Jon Hamm to voice Competition or a competitive nature.” Hauser said while speaking with CinemaBlend about Pixar’s latest smash hit. “That dude [Hamm] is a real player. He can be thrown into anything.”

Sitting next to Hauser during the interview is Lewis Black, who reprises his role as Anger in Inside Out 2.

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Inside Out 2 is a box office hit. Not only did it mark the first $100+ opening weekend of the year and helped turn around the doom and gloom of the summer box office, but it has also been a hit with critics and audiences as it has a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes and scored an A CinemaScore. With $155 million, it is the...

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Friendship replaces Family Island as Riley's biggest emotional focus in Inside Out 2. Teenage Riley prioritizes friendships over family in the sequel, reflecting a common adolescent feeling. As Riley's core memories change, her personality islands and external relationships also shift, illustrating Inside Out 2's ability to make abstract concepts more accessible.

A sequel to Pixar's 2015 hit, Inside Out 2 has bucked 2024's disappointing box-office trend, garnering a whopping $295 million globally over its opening weekend. Not only is the Inside Out follow-up positioned to be the 2024 movie that dethrones Dune 2, but it's also the best theatrical opening weekend since 2023's Barbie, which went on to gross $1.446 billion. While Inside Out 2 has struck gold, both financially and narrative-wise, by revisiting the inventive world inside Riley's mind, the Pixar sequel has also prompted viewers to wonder about some key differences between the Inside Out films.

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With debut director Kelsey Mann taking over from Pete Docter, the second installment follows Riley (Kensington Tallman) during her teenage years. Along with her core emotions — Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear, and Disgust — she begins encountering new emotions, notably Anxiety (Maya Hawke).

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There’s a lot to unpack psychologically in “Inside Out 2” (currently in theaters), which adds more emotional complexity to the franchise. This provided Pixar with imaginative visual opportunities along with a lot more screen time for teen Riley (Kensington Tallman).

Which means puberty literally takes a wrecking ball to Riley’s emotional stability, signaling the arrival of Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser). Anxiety sees herself as an agent of change in reshaping Riley’s future in high school, and hockey camp offers the first opportunity to test her ideas. When Joy (Amy Poehler) and her front-line team of Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale), and Disgust (Liza Lapira) refuse to cooperate, Anxiety throws away Riley’s crystal-shaped Sense of Self and banishes them to her Vault of Secrets as suppressed emotions.

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Back in 2015, Pixar's "Inside Out" brought us into the mind of Riley, a young girl living with her family in Minnesota. We watched as Riley grew up through the eyes of her core emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader), and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). Each of the emotions helped shape Riley's life experiences, but as she got older and dealt with the challenge of moving from Minnesota to San Francisco, it brought a lesson for both Riley and Joy. 

While Joy was always trying to make sure Riley was happy, the energetic emotion had to realize that sometimes it's okay for Riley to be sad, and experiencing sadness can ultimately bring us right back to happiness. But as we left Riley on the cusp of her becoming a teenager at the end of "Inside Out," there were still many more lessons for Riley and Joy to learn.