Jennifer Lawrence and Nostalgia
Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Inside Out blowout, Sam Neill is untamed, Jennifer Lawrence is a horror, A24's Planet and a hummingbird.
Let’s go!
THE INDUSTRY NEWS
Inside Out 2 continues to lead the 2024 Box Office with a joyous $100 M domestic 2nd weekend, making it the highest-grossing film of the year.
Here’s the breakdown:
Inside Out 2 (Pixar)
$355 M domestic
$724 M global
$200 M budget + $100 M + marketing
Best 2nd weekend for an animated film
1 of 7 films to make $100 M in 2nd weekend
Tracking to be the biggest Pixar film of all time
100-day theatrical window
Inside Out 2 crushed expectations and topped Inside Out 1’s box office opening ($90 M) by a major margin. Inside Out 1 ended with a $859 M global theatrical gross.
Here’s the domestic breakdown for some of the other films we’ve been tracking:
$10 M The Bikeriders (Focus Features)
$13.9 M Global
Overperformed
Best opening for dir: Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special)
$2.4 M The Exorcism (Vertical)
$3.98 M worldwide
Underperformed the other Russell Crowe exorcism movie, The Pope’s Exorcist ($9 M opening)
$2.2 M Thelma (Magnolia)
June Squibb, the 94-year-old star of Thelma, also voiced Nostalgia in Inside Out 2, making her the actress with the total highest-grossing films of the weekend.
Going wide next week are Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness, which took $350 K across 4 screens, and A24’s Janet Planet, which grabbed 49K across 2 screens.
The box office outperformed the 2023 box office for the second weekend in a row, up by 31.8%.
Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence to produce and star in The Wives, a murder mystery film co-produced by Apple Studios and A24.
It is no surprise to Lawrence fans that she is attached to the project as she has openly expressed her love for all things Bravo, with this new horror film said to be in the vein of “The Real Housewives” franchises while all other plot details are currently being kept under wraps.
Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley (Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical) will write the script.
Lawrence previously worked with both Apple Studios and A24, in the New Orleans-based heartbreaking indie film Causeway (2022) (trailer), with her performance as well as her screen partner’s, Brian Tyree Henry, widely praised.
The Wives is a big win for Apple, which acquired the rights in a highly competitive situation. Their next release will be the Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum-led romcom Fly Me to the Moon in theaters on July 12th.
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