Inside Out‘s $91 million domestic take this weekend (based on early estimates) was Pixar’s second biggest opening weekend ever, behind Toy Story 3‘s $110.3 million in 2010, but wasn’t enough to make it the weekend’s number one movie. Jurassic World‘s $102 million was number one, its gross down only 51% from its record-breaking opening last weekend, giving it the second biggest second weekend ever behind Avengers. That’s kind of a weird stat but the point is, Jurassic World has made a lot of money.
If making $91 million in a weekend and not being number one sounds strange, that’s because it is. In fact, this was the first weekend ever on which two movies both made more than $70 million.
[Jurassic World has earned] $398.23 million in America after ten days of domestic play. That crushes the old 10-day record of The Avengers, which earned more in it second weekend ($103m) but had comparatively weaker weekdays and earned a mere $377m over its first ten days of domestic play. [Forbes]
In 12 days, Jurassic World is just shy of the $1 billion mark worldwide, looking like a lock to break Furious 7‘s record of 17 days to reach three commas. People like dinosaurs.
What is startling about Inside Out‘s weekend is that it is the highest opening weekend ever for an original property (that is to say one that is not a sequel or a non-sourced work), passing Avatar, which made $77M on its December 18-20, 2009 bow. [BoxOfficeMojo]
Early tracking numbers had Inside Out going as low as $60 million, proving tracking numbers are mostly bullsh*t anyway.
Inside Out received an A Cinemascore from audiences, to go along with its 98% RottenTomatoes rating, meaning those few critics who didn’t love it should probably be flogged and poked with sharp sticks and have all of their chevrons and fancy blazer seals removed. Dirty, heartless, emotion-hating bastards, all of them.
The other new movie of the weekend was Dope, which earned $6 million, which was slightly disappointing and below expectations. But Open Road films only spent $7 million on it, meaning it could still make out okay if it continues to play for a few weeks.
This weekend brings Ted 2 and Max, about the dog that’s also a Marine, which looks amazing. Of course, I might have to skip that one, because I lost a dog not too long ago and already cried my dick off during the dog scenes in Far From The Madding Crowd, of all things. If a movie about fancy English wieners falling in love can make me cry about a dog on accident, I’d hate to see what a movie about a dog trying to make me cry on purpose can do. So yeah, maybe Inside Out would’ve gotten to me more if it had been about a dog, and not about a little kid who moved and was kind of sad for half a day. We all have our triggers.