Vice-Versa 2 is the first film to cross the billion dollar mark at the box office in 2024.
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As the band Aerosmith sings: “Sweet Emotion“. Two weeks after its release, Vice-Versa 2 does not reduce its sails and signs a third weekend at the top of the American box office. An exceptional maintenance, which allows this sequel to reach the billion dollar mark worldwide, a first in 2024.
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Pixar back on top of the world
The latest production from the Luxo lamp house earned $57.4 million for its third weekend in the United States. The film once again shows a good retention of spectators (-43% compared to last weekend), after a second weekend which had already declined very little (-34% only).
Vice-Versa 2 breaks records.
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This brings the US total to Vice-Versa 2 at $469 million. The film is on track to become Pixar’s second-highest grossing film in the United States, aiming to surpass the domestic record held by The Incredibles 2 (608 million). For the moment, it has already done better than Toy Story 4 (434 millions), The Lion King (423 million) and Shrek 2 (445 millions).
The success is even more obvious on an international scale, where the feature film smashed the billion dollar mark in just 17 days. It thus becomes the animated film to have reached this impressive milestone the fastest in history, as well as the first film of the year 2024 to reach this milestone. From now on, Vice-Versa 2 can dream of fetching Frozen 2 (1.4 billion) or even The Lion King 2019 version ($1.6 billion) to become the highest-grossing animated hit of all time.
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Box office records are also being broken in the sequel, as the prequel A Quiet Place: Day 1 opened with $53 million, marking the best start of the horror franchise, beating the 2018 debut ($50 million) and its sequel ($47 million).
This is also the second best start for actress Lupita Nyong’o after Us by Jordan Peele (71.1 million), if we do not take into account his Star Wars and Marvel films. The franchise has already generated $730 million worldwide, and a Without a sound 3 is planned for 2025.
Lupita Nyong’o in Quietly: Day 1.
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But it’s not a party for everyone, especially not for Kevin Costner. The first part of Horizon, his epic western self-financed at 100 million dollars, debuts in third place in the ranking, with only 11 million in his bag. A major failure, this opus having failed to extricate itself from its status as an anachronistic production.
Released in 2003, Open RangeCostner’s last western (and last film), had generated 68 million worldwide. As a reminder, the actor-director had enjoyed public and critical acclaim in 1990 thanks to the cult film Dancing with the wolves, which grossed 424 million worldwide and won seven Oscars. Another era.
Kevin Costner in Horizon.
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US box office for June 28-30, 2024 (estimates)
| FILM | WEEK-END | UNITED STATES CUMULATION | WORLD CUMULATION | WEEK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vice-Versa 2 | 57 400 000 $ | 469 306 043 $ | 1 014 806 043 $ | 3 |
| 2 | Quietly: Day 1 | 53 000 000 $ | 53 000 000 $ | 98 500 000 $ | 1 |
| 3 | Horizon: An American Saga, Chapter 1 | 11 000 000 $ | 11 000 000 $ | 11 000 000 $ | 1 |
| 4 | Bad Boys: Ride or Die | 10 335 000 $ | 165 250 016 $ | 331 950 016 $ | 4 |
| 5 | Kalki 2898 AD | 5 475 000 $ | 5 475 000 $ | 5 475 000 $ | 1 |
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