4-Week Tracking: Pixar’s INSIDE OUT 2 Pacing for Strong $75M+ Father’s Day Weekend Start, FURIOSA Trends Upward Following Cannes Premiere

Despite GARFIELD Trending Down, Tracking and Pre-Sales Point to 2024's Summer Box Office Starting to Warm Up

May 16, 2024

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This week’s long range outlook takes a look at Pixar’s latest anticipated sequel, Inside Out 2, as the follow-up to 2015’s original blockbuster courts family audiences of all ages over Father’s Day weekend.

Nine years after the original took the box office by storm and and became the fourth-highest grossing movie of 2015, the sequel will have some added microscopes on it in the wake of Disney’s recent box office stumbles during the post-pandemic and post-peak-streaming era.

Meanwhile, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga‘s tracking has ticked upward as pre-sales and very positive reviews out of the Cannes Film Festival amp up its buzz ahead of next week’s debut.

Unfortunately, though, The Garfield Movie is trending in the opposite direction for now as Furiosa increasingly appears to be the favorite to win Memorial Day weekend.

Our full analysis and latest tracking:

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