The dazzling global box office performance of “Vice-Versa 2” is expected to take the new animated film well beyond $1 billion in revenue, and could even make it Pixar’s biggest hit of all time.
Pixar on the road to a billion
This is a performance that will replenish Disney’s coffers and relieve Pixar studios, which have never seen such a success since a long time. Released on June 14 in the United States and June 19 in France, Vice-Versa 2 surpassed on Thursday, June 28 the performance of Vice-Versa (2015), which grossed $858.8 million at the end of its run. And with a global box office total of 863,1 millions,this new feature film is already a huge success.
As Deadline notes, this performance of the new Pixar animated film is all the more remarkable given that it is not being distributed in Russia, and will not be distributed in Japan until August. Those two territories had grossed around $50 million on Vice-VersaThis is to say how important and dazzling the success is.
According to projections, Vice-Versa 2 should thus pass the bar of billion dollars in revenue ce week-end.
Vice-Versa 2 stronger than The Incredibles 2 ?
As of today, the new film is at the 6e position of Pixar’s biggest box office hits, behind The world of Nemo. On his solid momentum, he will quickly overtake him and probably also overtake his suite, Finding Dory ($1.02 billion of global revenue). With, in line of sight, Toy Story 3 et Toy Story 4and the biggest Pixar success, The Incredibles 2. This one, released in 2018, reported $1.24 billion au box-office mondial.
Vice-Versa 2 can it exceed The Incredibles 2 ? If we compare their performances on North American territory, after 14 days, their behavior at the box office is similar, with respectively 400 millions et 407 millions dollars collected. So we will have to wait a few days to see if Vice-Versa 2 changes its progress, or if on the contrary it will confirm its success to become thePixar’s biggest hit of all time.
In all cases, Vice-Versa 2 is already one of the biggest successes of the Disney animation subsidiary, and marks its return to the forefront after very slow years.
