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Given their near-death experience at the end of Toy Story 3, it might have seemed like Woody, Buzz and the rest of the gang were ready to ride off into the proverbial sunset after that third installment of the franchise, but Pixar quickly let it be known that was far from the case. Just a year later, a trio of shorts called Toy Story Toons began accompanying various Disney movies in theaters. Next up came the first Toy Story TV special, which featured Woody’s Roundup Gang venturing into a surprising new genre: horror.

First airing on ABC on October 16, 2013, Toy Story of Terror saw Woody, Buzz and Jessie take a trip to a hotel where toys quickly begin going missing, leaving only Jessie (Joan Cusack) to contend with a mysterious shadowy figure. After being isolated from the rest of the group, Jessie meets a lost toy named Combat Carl...

Is there room at the best picture table for more than one “part two?”

This year, several installments in established franchises are banging on the Academy’s door, hoping for a coveted slot in the category. With no clear frontrunner, this could be the season that more than one sequel secures a place in the race. That has happened only once, in 2022 (“Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Top Gun: Maverick”).

The Oscars have long hesitated to embrace anything with a Roman numeral affixed to it. Historically, only nine sequels have been nominated for best picture: “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945), “The Godfather Part II” (1974), “The Godfather Part III” (1990), “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (2002), “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003), “Toy Story 3” (2010), “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), “Avatar: The Way of Water” (2022) and “Top Gun: Maverick” (2022). Just two — “Godfather 2” and “Return of the King” — won.

Litmus Music said Thursday that it has acquired Randy Newman’s share of his recorded music and publishing catalog.

The deal includes rights to the scores of the composer-singer-songwriter’s Oscar-winning Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. movies and his decades of hits including “I Love L.A.,” which is still heard after every Los Angeles Dodgers home win.

No deal terms were provided by Litmus, which was co-founded by former Capitol Records and Warner Bros Records president Dan McCarroll and Hank Forsythe and is backed by Carlyle Group. The company has done similar transactions with Katy Perry, Benny Blanco and Keith Urban.

“Randy Newman is a unique and brilliant songwriter, composer, and performer whose body of work has proven him to be an artist for the ages,” said McCarroll. “There is absolutely no one like him, and his influence on the music world cannot be overstated. We couldn’t be more...

In its nearly 30 years of existence, DreamWorks Animation has had a remarkable trajectory marked primarily by the bulk of franchises it created, as much as through the quality of the films themselves. Consider that one of its chief competitors, Pixar Animation Studios, started making feature-length computer-animated films in 1995 and has made just 28 features in the intervening 30 years. DreamWorks? Well, it's made 49 features in just over 25 years. Some of these films are best left forgotten or have only been rediscovered over time courtesy of oddball memes (see: "Bee Movie"). But DreamWorks Animation, amidst the Trolls and boss babies, the chatty penguins of Madagascar, and silent horses who embody the spirit of the Cimarron, has made 10 genuinely solid movies. And with the arrival in late September of DreamWorks' "The Wild Robot," there's no better time than right now to rank those 10 films and see if the studio's latest title makes the grade.

Freeform is giving big Disney energy all November long with so much goodness one can’t afford to miss a night. 30 Days of Disney returns with themed weeks that make it easy to kick back and enjoy the magic of Disney with friends and family.

The programming event features a lineup of beloved films from the entire Walt Disney catalog, including Disney Animated classics like Lilo & Stitch, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast and Disney-Pixar titles, including a Toy Story movie marathon, Wall-e, Inside Out, and modern fan favorites Soul and Turning Red.

Disney’s most beloved musicals will have viewers singing along to favorite songs this Nov. 4-8, with films like Aladdin, Moana, Encanto, and Frozen/Frozen 2. Favorite Disney villains will take evil to new heights, and they are beloved for it. From Nov. 11-15, watch out for Ursula from The Little Mermaid, Scar from The Lion King, and...

The Oscars race is wide open this year, and so is the question of which film will win the coveted TIFF Audience Award.

With A-listers like Selena Gomez and Angelina Jolie and breakout stars like Mikey Madison and Gabriel Labelle, the 49th annual Toronto International Film Festival concludes on Sunday after screening 278 films over its 10-day run. Following Pedro Almodóvar’s stunning melodrama, “The Room Next Door,” taking the Golden Lion at Venice, attention shifts to the Canadian festival to see which film will get a significant boost in the early days of the best picture race.

While some films here scream awards potential, others are destined only for commercial success, while others are just blips in the massive lineup. Below are potential awards contenders from other films screened at the festival and Variety’s predictions on which film will win the TIFF Audience Award on Sunday, Sept. 15.

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The 51st Telluride Film Festival officially kicked off Friday afternoon with the world premiere of Piece by Piece, an animated documentary about the innovative singer, songwriter and record producer Pharrell Williams, as the Patron Preview screening at the Werner Herzog Theatre. And the consensus of those in attendance was that the film is a truly original, outside-the-box, rollicking good time.

Directed by the great Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom), the taut 93-minute film — at the request of Williams, who experiences sounds visually, something known as synesthesia — employs Lego animations to illustrate Williams’ journey from the projects of Virginia Beach to the heights of showbiz, and the bumps he has experienced along the way. (Neville had never previously worked with animation.)

Williams is not only the film’s subject — and opens up as never before during interviews with Neville in which they are both Lego-ized — but also one of its producers.

After spending the entirety of last week’s show condescending to a lineup of confused children, Bill Maher’s most recent episode of Club Random featured an actual adult as a guest: Quentin Tarantino. This meant that Maher could once again spend the entire interview smoking pot and distractingly fiddling with liquor bottles as if his show were an elementary school production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Maher and Tarantino, the first return guest to Maher’s YouTube show/cry for help, ping-ponged through a headache-inducing assortment of topics, including the success of Taylor Swift, whether or not Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey was gay and why Kamala Harris will end up losing the presidential election (hint: it’s because she won’t appear on Maher’s HBO show).

But perhaps the most eyebrow-raising moment in the whole episode came when the subject of Jerry Seinfeld’s...

Quentin Tarantino thinks “Toy Story 3” is one of the greatest movies ever, which is why he refuses to watch 2019’s “Toy Story 4.” During an interview on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, the Oscar winner suggested that “Toy Story” could’ve been one of the great film trilogies had the animated franchise not continued with a fourth film. A fifth “Toy Story” is now on the way.

“I don’t watch all the animated movies and stuff, but I’m a big fan of the ‘Toy Story’ trilogy,” Tarantino said. “I think there’s only one trilogy that completely and utterly works to the Nth degree and that’s ‘A Fistful of Dollars,’ ‘For a Few Dollars More’ and ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.'”

“It does what no other trilogy has ever been quite able to do,” he continued. “The first movie is terrific, but...

Well, it seems like Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited 10th and final film will not be a “Toy Story” installment.

The director said during Bill Maher’s YouTube (video) podcast “Club Random” that the original “Toy Story” trilogy is one of the greatest trio of films of all time. According to Tarantino, the franchise overextended with the fourth installment. Well, he’s gonna hate this news: a fifth “Toy Story” was announced earlier this year with original director Andrew Stanton returning to the chair. “Toy Story 5” will center on children who become obsessed with technology; it is slated for a June 19, 2026 release.

“I don’t watch all the animated movies and stuff, but I’m a big fan of the ‘Toy Story’ trilogy,” Tarantino told Maher in the below video. “In the case of ‘Toy Story,’ the third one is just magnificent. It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most outstanding filmmakers in the entire entertainment industry, with his projects delivering such worthwhile experiences that continue to leave an indelible mark on their audiences, even after decades. A profound storyteller, he has a keen eye for exceptional works, which is why Tom Hanks’ Toy Story saga is one of his top favorites as well.

Quentin Tarantino in From Dusk Till Dawn. | Credits: Miramax.

Despite not being a massive fan of animation, this one family-adventure film franchise has long held a special place in the director’s heart. But this love is only restricted to the initial three installments of the film series, with Tarantino unhesitantly openly confessing how he has “no desire” to see the fourth film for a very valid reason while Disney is milking the lore for a fifth movie.

Quentin Tarantino Holds No Regard for Toy Story 4

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When you think about where to head for Halloween favorites, Disney+ probably doesn’t immediately spring to mind. But just because Disney+ is free from blood-and-gore extravaganzas doesn’t mean it can’t scratch your spooky itch. In fact, far from it! There is a pretty robust amount of Halloween (and Halloween-adjacent) fair on Disney’s direct-to-consumer platform, including a bunch of new stuff that was recently added and so many classics, for every age group. Here are our choices for the very best Halloween movies and shows on Disney+ right now.

Frankenweenie (2012) Photo: Disney

Unlike other Disney remakes, which start out in animation before transitioning to live-action, Tim Burton decided to remake his oddball live-action short film (one of his “after school projects” that kept him busy while animating for Disney) in the form of a feature-length stop-motion animated film. Talk about a curveball! One of his most emotionally resonant and overlooked films,...

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The 2024 Sundance Film Festival: Asia held its opening press conference today (August 20) in Taipei, announcing that the event will take place from August 21 to August 25. Over 40 Hollywood professionals will gather in Taipei for this five-day event, which will feature the premieres of 15 award-winning films, 6 short films competing in the competition, and a series of prestigious master panels and workshops. This year, the number of panels and workshops has expanded from last year’s 4 to 14. Highlights include a “Sound Workshop” featuring Skip Lievsay, known as the father of Atmos, in conversation with Taiwan’s top sound designer Tu Duu-chih.

The official announcement at D23 of Pixar’s Andrew Stanton writing and directing “Toy Story 5” is a big deal. Stanton has co-written the previous four “Toy Story” films, receiving Oscar nominations for the original and the third film.

But now as a director, he finally gets to be in total control of the franchise he helped establish. So if there was going to be a fifth “Toy Story,” he’s the perfect director for a couple of reasons.

The first is that, since “Wall-e,” Stanton has been fascinated with science fiction and the dangers of ubiquitous technology. The story for the fifth “Toy Story” allows him to double down on that fascination.

“Let’s be real,” Stanton told the packed Honda Center in Anaheim on Friday night. “Toys have some serious competition these days with phones, tablets, and technology everywhere. So, this time around, it’s toys vs. tech.

Disney has confirmed that its $2 billion-plus Frozen IP will get a three-quel in 2027. Disney exec Jennifer Lee, who is also one of the directors of Frozen and Frozen II, released a concept art of the film at the ongoing D23 event. The film was inspired by Christian Andersen’s old fairy tale The Snow Queen. The two films grossed a total of $2.76 billion at the box office.

A still from Frozen | Walt Disney Pictures.

Lee also hinted at a potential fourth film in the franchise, which obviously draws a comparison to Pixar’s seminal four-part film franchise, Toy Story. From the numbers and the success of Inside Out 2 & Despicable Me 4, the Frozen franchise is likely to surpass the $3 billion-grossing franchise.

Disney Announces Frozen 3 And The Franchise Is All Set To Overthrow Another Pixar Film Series Anna and Olaf from Frozen II | Walt Disney Pictures

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To infinity and beyond!

Woody and Buzz will be back for Disney Pixar’s “Toy Story 5.”

Andrew Stanton will direct the next installment of the franchise. Speaking at D23, Stanton said this time around, the toys who have always been there for the kids will find their job cut out for them when they go head to head with electronics.

The premise of the new #ToyStory is revealed by Andrew Stanton at #D23. pic.twitter.com/lzI0lR9WFo

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Disney CEO Bob Iger first confirmed that a sequel was in the works back in February 2023, along with new installments in the “Frozen” and “Zootopia” franchises. No further details were provided at the time, only that it seemed like the new film would not be another spinoff like the Chris Evans-starring “Lightyear,” but a return to the core story centered on Woody and Buzz.

A few months after Iger’s announcement,...

With “Inside Out 2” blowing the roof off the summer box office, Disney and Pixar are all steam ahead on the sequel train. Next up on the slate is a return to the IP that reshaped the world of animation, “Toy Story 5.” Disney CEO Bob Iger announced development on the new installment in early 2023, with a release date later being set for June 19, 2026. At the same time as Iger’s announcement came, Buzz Lightyear star Tim Allen also shared via X, formerly known as Twitter, that he would be lending his voice to the iconic character once again. Though it had been rumored Pixar brain trust member and creative mainstay Andrew Stanton would be directing the 5th entry in the long-running animated film series, his involvement was confirmed at D23 today, in addition to new details being revealed.

Stanton has contributed to every “Toy Story” script since the inception of the inaugural Pixar film,...

Descubre las 10 películas animadas más taquilleras. © Disney

Tras seis semanas en cartelera, “Del Revés 2” ha logrado superar a “Frozen 2” y se ha convertido en la película de animación más taquillera de la historia. La secuela de la aclamada película de Pixar ha recaudado cerca de 1.500 millones de dólares a nivel mundial, alcanzando una impresionante cifra de 1.460 millones de dólares.

Walt Disney Animation Studios ha felicitado a Pixar por este logro, siguiendo la tradición de los estudios de festejar cuando se baten récords de taquilla. La imagen conmemorativa, compartida en redes sociales, muestra a los personajes de “Frozen” pasando la antorcha a los de “Del Revés”.

El nuevo ranking de películas animadas más taquilleras queda así:

Del Revés 2 (2024) Frozen II (2019) Super Mario Bros.: la película (2023) Frozen (2013) Los Increíbles 2 (2018) Minions (2015) Toy Story 4 (2019) Toy Story 3 (2010) Gru 3: Mi Villano Favorito (2017) Buscando a Dory (2016) © Disney

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Worldwide box office July 19-21 Rank Film (distributor)3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Twisters (Warner Bros/Universal) $107.6m $123.2m $27.1m $42.7m 77 2. Successor (various) $85.2m $211.7m $85.2m $211.7m 1 3. Despicable Me 4 (Universal) $75.8m $574.4m $52m $315m 80 4. Inside Out 2 (Disney) $47m $1.44bn $34.2m $846.9m 52 5. Longlegs (various) $17.2m $56.1m $5.5m $11.5m 28 6. A Place Called Silence (various) $15.6m $152m $15.6m $152m 1 7. A Quiet Place: Day One (Paramount) $11.3m $241.4m $5.2m $113.8m 68 8. Your Name (2017) (Crunchyroll) $11.3m $390.9m $11.3m $390.9m 2 9. Fly Me To The Moon (Sony) $7.1m $30.7m $3.8m $14.3m 59 10. Bad Boys: Ride Or Die (Sony) $5.9m $338m $3.2m $198.7m 64

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Whoopi Goldberg admitted she broke Disney’s cardinal rule. This is shocking since she works for ABC, part of Disney Entertainment, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Whoopi has a long-running relationship with Disney.

In 1994, she voiced Shenzi in the Disney animated film The Lion King. She returned to the character in the 2004 midquel The Lion King1 1/2. Whoopi also voiced Miss Mittens in Snow Buddies and Stretch in the Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 3.

She recently shared one of the cardinal rules she broke in an interview with Seth Meyers. Keep on reading to learn more.

Whoopi Goldberg Breaks Disney’s Rule

You could get banned from Disney‘s theme parks if you break this rule. Whoopi Goldberg warned others not to do it as well.

The View host is making the talk show rounds this week. She’s promoting her new book, Bits and Pieces: My Mother,...

Sustaining the magic of a franchise is not an easy feat for filmmakers and producers, especially in the ever-evolving and competitive landscape of Hollywood. But few film series like the Despicable Me franchise are doing wonders, even after being animated films with a compact audience base.

Gru (Steve Carell) and Gru Jr. in Chris Renaudʼs Despicable Me 4 | Universal Studios, Illumination

Therefore, after releasing their fourth installment recently, the Despicable Me 4 director offered an intriguing update about the future of the franchise. During a recent Variety interview, filmmaker Chris Renaud stated the possibility of another sequel, after the whirlwind opening for Illumination’s latest.

Despicable Me 4 Director Hinted at Another Potential Sequel

Following the iconic opening for Illumination’s latest installment Despicable Me 4, filmmaker Chris Renaud sat for an interview with Variety. Addressing the franchise’s roots in France, especially after introducing a French villain in the latest sequel,...

Während „Ich – Einfach unverbesserlich 4“ am Wochenende vor seinem Deutschlandstart am weltweiten Boxoffice insgesamt die 200-Mio.-Dollar-Marke geknackt hat, ist „Alles steht Kopf 2“ in der Top 25 der erfolgreichsten Filme aller Zeiten angekommen.

Die Nummer 25 der weltweit erfolgreichsten Filme aller Zeiten: „Alles steht Kopf 2” (Credit: Disney/Pixar)

Mit einem Einspiel von 78,3 Mio. Dollar in 45 Märkten – ein Minus von 31 Prozent im Vergleich zur Vorwoche – war „Alles steht Kopf 2“ am vergangenen Wochenende der erfolgreichste Film außerhalb Nordamerikas, wo er sein Gesamteinspiel auf 683,1 Mio. Dollar schraubte. Damit überholte der Pixar-Hit Filme wie „Die Unglaublichen 2“ (635 Mio. Dollar), „Toy Story 4“ (640 Mio. Dollar) und „Toy Story 3“ (652 Mio. Dollar) und ist damit aktuell die Nummer zehn unter den erfolgreichsten Animationsfilmen aller Zeiten außerhalb Nordamerikas.

Meilensteine setzte der aktuelle Spitzenreiter der deutschen Kinocharts in Lateinamerika, wo er insgesamt aktuell der zweiterfolgreichste Film aller Zeiten hinter „Avengers: Endgame“ ist, sowie in Mexiko, Chile,...

Updated: The global and international box office were extra animated this weekend with the expansion of Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 to domestic as well as another 52 overseas markets. At the same time, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 continues to jump for joy having reached $1,216.9M globally. It’s also now the No. 5 animated film of all time worldwide and No. 10 internationally. A notable new record places IO2 as the biggest film of all time in Mexico.

DM4, which began a staggered overseas release pattern a few weeks back, now counts $229.5M globally with several key majors still to come including France, Germany, China, UK, Japan, Korea and Italy. The international cume to date is $107M.

Although Inside Out 2 had a slightly bigger overseas weekend ($78.3M) than DM4 ($73M), let’s start with the latter as there were a host of new openings.

In a total 73 markets,...

The other night I was having dinner with a couple of industry veterans, both Oscar voters, who told me they had been talking to a top producer-financier who had seen two big studio movies coming out later in the year and both were fantastic.

The producer very enthusiastically praised Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, said Paul Mescal was terrific and Denzel Washington extraordinary in it. He also saw the new Robert Zemeckis film Here, which stars and de-ages Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, also reuniting them from the 1994 Zemeckis film Forrest Gump. Both that one and Scott’s 2000 Gladiator took Best Picture and now it appears both veteran directors will be back in the race — big time. Scott still has yet to win an Oscar, having been overlooked four times in the director race.

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Paramount releases Gladiator II in November, the same month...

“Inside Out 2” roared into cinema in June, becoming Pixar’s highest-grossing film in a debut weekend of all time, while its current worldwide haul at this time of writing stands at just over one billion.

The first movie — one of the most ingenious films of this century — took audiences inside the head of young Riley as she navigated a move to a new city while her emotions tried to guide her through the move in her head. This second film brings back those emotions as Riley goes through her teenage years. But Joy and Sadness and the gang have to deal with several new emotions in headquarters, including Anxiety, Embarrassment, and Ennui.

But while the film marches towards $1 billion at the box office, could it also be marching towards awards glory? Well, animated flicks don’t get the justice they deserve when it comes to the Academy Awards. So often,...

Updated: There’s joy all around as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has crossed the coveted $1B milestone at the worldwide box office. With $1,014.8B through 19 days, this is the quickest time to the mark for an animated movie ever, besting the previous record holder, Frozen 2, which got there in 25. Only 11 animated films have ever crossed the $1B threshold, and of those, Disney and Pixar combined now have eight.

Directed by Kelsey Mann, Inside Out 2 is also the first film of the year to get to $1B.

The 3rd international box office session was an estimated $108M, a 37% ease in the holdover markets, with continued No. 1s in most majors. The overseas cume is now $545.5M across 45 markets. This weekend saw Inside Out 2 pass Shrek Forever After ($514M), Madagascar 3 ($531M) and Finding Dory ($543M) to become the No. 18 animated release of all time internationally.

The running domestic total is $469.3M.

In a career that lasted four decades, the great character actor Ned Beatty worked with a number of the greatest film directors in history, starting out with John Boorman and 1972’s “Deliverance,” in which he made his spectacular screen debut. From there, he went on to work with such screen legends as Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, John Huston, Mike Nichols and Spike Lee.

Beatty was nominated for an Academy Award for 1976’s “Network,” directed by Lumet, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination for portraying an Irish tenor in 1991’s “Hear My Song.” Beatty did not appear in films until he was 35 years old and was immediately pegged as a character actor, a category in which he flourished. His other film credits include “Nashville,” “Superman,” “Wise Blood” and “Toy Story 3.” He died in 2021.

Tour our photo gallery ranking his 12 greatest screen performances from worst to best.

Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has passed another milestone in its hugely successful box office run, becoming the tenth highest grossing animated film ever in North America after just 12 days on release.

The Disney-distributed animated feature’s domestic gross reached an estimated $387.8m on Tuesday (June 25), surpassing the $382m of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, the previous number ten in the domestic animation chart.

At the same time, Inside Out 2’s international gross reached $411.9m, taking the film to the verge of another milestone with a global total of $799.7m.

In key international markets Inside Out 2 has now reached...

Worldwide box office June 21-23 Rank Film (distributor)3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Inside Out 2 (Disney) $264.4m $724.3m $164.4m $369.2m 45 2. Bad Boys: Ride Or Die (Sony) $42.8m $289.1m $24.1m $142.2m 67 3. Moments We Shared (various) $19m $19m $19m $19m 1 4. The Bikeriders (Universal) $13.9m $13.9m $3.9m $3.9m 50 5. Despicable Me 4 (Universal) $9.3m $9.3m $9.3m $9.3m 4 6. The Garfield Movie (Sony) $7.3m $230.6m $3.7m $145.5m 62 7. Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (Disney) $5.6m $385.1m $2m $220.8m 54 8. If (Paramount) $4.1m $181.3m $1.4m $74.7m 60 9. Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now (various) $3.9m $5m $2.4m $2.4m 50 10. Fuiriosa: A Mad Max Saga...

The ongoing struggle to elevate animated features to the same level of best-picture recognition as live-action films will undoubtedly resurface by year’s end. This time, the spotlight will be on Pixar’s highly successful sequel, “Inside Out 2,” a film that could bring joy and success amid a dark cloud hovering around Hollywood studios.

With debut director Kelsey Mann taking over from Pete Docter, the second installment follows Riley (Kensington Tallman) during her teenage years. Along with her core emotions — Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear, and Disgust — she begins encountering new emotions, notably Anxiety (Maya Hawke).

The first film had a budget of $175 million and made $858 million worldwide. It received two Oscar noms for original screenplay and animated feature, winning the latter. However, during the era when the Academy recognized 5-10 movies for best picture, it didn’t land among the eight that included...

Following the grand success of “Inside Out 2” at this weekend’s box office, TheWrap thought it wise to look back at the animation studio’s other most successful films from over the years.

In its opening weekend, “Inside Out 2” raked in $155 million at the domestic box office and $295 million worldwide, making it the highest global weekend launch ever for an animated film.

On top of that, the sequel is also the second highest three-day box office opening for nearly any film in the last 18 months, coming up just behind the “Barbie” opening ($162 million”).

From hundreds of millions to bank-rolling in the billies, here are Disney-Pixar’s Top 10 highest-grossing flicks:

“The Incredibles” (2004) — $631 million “The Incredibles” (Disney-Pixar)

The family of superheroes flew into the box office charts and pulled in a whopping $631 million.

“Up” (2009) — $735 million “Up” (Disney-Pixar)

Every Disney-Pixar films brings you to tears, but “Up” requires at least two tissue boxes.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (June 14-16)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Inside Out 2 (Disney) £11.3m £11.3m 1 2. Bad Boys: Ride Or Die (Sony) £1.9m £7.1m 2 3. If (Paramount) £414,673 £11.4m 5 4. Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (Disney) £389,000 £15m 6 5. The Garfield Movie (Sony) £354,829 £7.9m 4

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Disney’s Inside Out 2 stirred up plenty of emotions at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend after its £11.3m debut made it the biggest opening of the year so far and the third-highest of all time for an animated feature.

The Pixar sequel opened in 684 sites, for an impressive £16,520 location average.

Don’t be afraid to catch feelings. Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” just scored the biggest box office opening day of the year so far, earning a spectacular $62 million across Friday and preview screenings from 4,440 locations. It will have no trouble blasting past the $82.5 million debut earned by “Dune: Part Two” to overtake it as the biggest domestic opening of 2024. It’ll also be the first release to notch a nine-figure domestic opening in nearly 11 months — the last one to get above $100 million was “Barbie” last summer.

It’s a welcome bounce back for Pixar Animation Studios, which has struggled at the box office in recent years after Disney sent films like “Turning Red,” “Soul” and “Luca” directly to Disney+ during the Covid pandemic, a decision that Pixar head (and the director of the original “Inside Out”) Pete Docter says “trained” audiences to watch the studio’s features on streaming.

This article contains spoilers for "Inside Out" and "Inside Out 2."

When "Inside Out" premiered in 2015, adults admitted without shame that the Pixar movie where emotions have emotions melted them into giant puddles. I was no different. I caught the film during a weekday matinee and had the entire theater to myself. No screaming kids, no teens texting, and I had the best seat in the house.

This also meant that I was a sight for the poor minimum-wage worker who found an adult woman crying so hard she was dry heaving, alone, after a family film.

Bing Bong's death is typically what reduces adults to tears, but after the devastation of "Toy Story 3," the (at the time) trilogy conclusion of the very first movie I saw in the theater, I was immune to anything dealing with the devastating personification of growing beyond childish wonders. For me, it's...

Clockwise from left: Inside Out 2, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story, Wall-EImage: Disney/Pixar

Although Pixar has had its fair share of disappointments and missteps, at its height, there was no one doing it better. For nearly three decades the studio has been creating crowd-pleasing features and taking audiences into imaginative new worlds.

Inside Out 2 Image: Disney/Pixar When it comes to sequels, Pixar’s track record has been mixed, to say the least. At the upper end of the quality scale there’s Toy Story 2, not only one of the best sequels to come from Pixar, but one of the best sequels ever made.

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When it comes to sequels, Pixar’s track record has been mixed, to say the least. At the upper end of the quality scale there’s Toy Story 2, not only one of the best sequels to come from Pixar, but one of the best sequels ever made.

There was a time when Pixar could do no wrong. As a result, everyone was shocked when Toy Story spin-off Lightyear underperformed, though that did come after former Disney CEO Bob Chapek made the controversial decision to dump titles like Luca, Soul, and Turning Red on Disney+ during the pandemic.

Elemental struggled at the box office last year (even if it managed to shake off "flop" status once its theatrical run concluded) and all eyes are on Inside Out 2 to now "save" Pixar.

The sequel is currently eyeing a $135 million global debut and early reviews could help it exceed expectations at the box office.

As we write this, the Inside Out follow-up sits at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes with 114 reviews counted. According to the Critics Consensus, "Spicing things up with the wrinkle of teenage angst, Inside Out 2 clears the head and warms the heart by living up to its predecessor's emotional intelligence.

Plot: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust have been doing a good job managing the emotions of their beloved human, Riley. But, as she enters her teenage years, they have their hands full dealing with a whole new slate of emotions, including the obstructive, controlling Anxiety.

Review: Ever since the pandemic, Pixar’s been struggling to recapture the zeitgeist its animated films were once so easily able to dominate. For a long time, it was almost uncanny how each film was hailed as a masterpiece, only for the company to fall off when suddenly their films became more commonly viewed via streaming than in theatres. Some say the movies got to be too specific, although for me I’d take a highly personal story like Elemental over the more generic Lightyear any day. At any rate, the company is said to be undergoing a pivot towards more universal stories, although...

Pixar has recently been making sequels to some of its most acclaimed films, and their success with fans has been decidedly mixed. For every Toy Story 3, there’s a Cars 2. This year sees the release of Inside Out 2, a sequel to one of the studio’s most acclaimed movies in the past decade. Although the sequel is mostly inferior, it’s still plenty funny and heartwarming enough to be worth watching.

Inside Out 2 picks up with Riley as a 13-year-old when she begins puberty and encounters a new set of complex emotions during an important transition in her life from middle school to high school. For a film that is supposed to be about the complexity of emotions, it’s a bit underwhelming that the story and emotions are so simplistic, but there’s still plenty to praise here.

The area where Inside Out 2 is...

Tom Hanks is known as the ‘Dad of Hollywood’ due to his penchant for choosing good-guy roles in his movies. The actor has worked with acclaimed directors such as Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Robert Zemeckis, and more in his extensive filmography. He even won the Oscar twice in a row for his performances in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.

Having established himself as a legendary actor in Hollywood history, Hanks has extensive knowledge in performing and even gave a small exercise for this generation’s most beloved ‘Tom’, Tom Holland. The Spider-Man: Homecoming star was given an exercise that tested his skills by the veteran actor while on The Graham Norton Show.

Tom Hanks Tests Tom Holland On His Acting Skills Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan | Credits: Amblin Entertainment/Mutual Film Company

Tom Hanks became one of the most beloved stars of Hollywood when he starred in romantic comedies such as Big,...

With Inside Out 2 hitting theaters soon, I figured that now would be as good a time as any to look back at the 2015 original nearly a decade later. When Inside Out first released, Pixar was in arguably the studio’s first slump period. After 15 years of universal acclaim and box office dominance from 1995’s Toy Story to 2010’s Toy Story 3, the studio put out the critically reviled Cars 2 and the middlingly received Brave and Monsters University all in a row.

All three films still made money and Brave even took home the Best Animated Feature Oscar that year, but it nevertheless felt like Pixar had lost some of that original spark. But then came Inside Out; a completely original story from Pixar veteran Pete Docter, who had previously helmed Monsters Inc. and Up that took the studio’s “What if x had feelings?” formula to its logical...

Kevin Feige had a far crazier idea for Avengers: Endgame climax inspired by the Toy Story 3 ending. Feige wanted to kill off all the six Og Avengers at the end of the film and proposed the idea to directors Russo brothers and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. However, they shot down the idea since the directors believed that they could not do justice to all these character deaths.

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Moreover, too many deaths would’ve left the audience in a disappointed and confused state. The sacrifices of Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow and Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man were the only ones required to create an emotional impact on the viewers. With Captain America’s fitting happy ending, fans were overwhelmed with emotions while leaving the theaters.

Kevin Feige’s Original Plan For Avengers: Endgame Couldn’t Have Had The Same...

If anyone’s created any animated magic in the West, it’s Disney and Pixar. Although connected since 2006 (Pixar started off as an independent studio before being acquired by Disney), the two studios have had different policies for a while, but while they still release films somewhat independently, a balance has been found and it is now more difficult to tell a Disney production from a Pixar one; two decades ago, which is not t along, it was very easy to do. But, regardless of the magic and the historical importance, both studios have been struggling for a while now in the financial sense. Workers have been laid off, projects have been put on hold and their overall number has been reduced, while those that have been released are not doing that well at the box office.

This is an issue for both Disney and Pixar in general as the...

How quickly times change. There once was an era when Pixar didn’t think it needed sequels and could just go from original story to original story. In fact, in 2016, Pixar’s president Jim Morris said there were no Pixar sequel plans after Brad Bird’s “The Incredibles 2,” something of a response to the underwhelming reception to “Cars 2” and, to a lesser degree, “Toy Story 3.

Continue reading Pixar Considering Reboots For All Its Titles Including ‘The Incredibles’ & ‘Finding Nemo’ at The Playlist.

At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, there’s something about the purity of great animated storytelling that can shatter your heart and then make it whole again. (Think Toy Story 3.) Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’ captivating second feature, Flow, is that kind of marvel, a vividly experiential white-knuckle survival adventure that takes place in a world on the brink of ruin. Told entirely without dialogue, this tale of a cat that evolves from self-preservation to solidarity with a motley crew of other species is something quite special.

Acquired out of Cannes for North America by Sideshow and Janus Films, Flow is of a piece with Zilbalodis’ lauded 2019 debut Away; both are essentially silent movies and both owe a debt to the painterly canvases of animation master Hayao Miyazaki. The new work drops characters designed in classic cartoon style into ravishing photo-realistic environments, at times recalling the woodsy landscapes of Danish artist Peder Mørk Mønsted.

Whether you like Quentin Tarantino's wild and idiosyncratic approach to filmmaking or not, it's hard to deny that his work has made an immeasurable contribution to the development of pop culture as we know it today. But none of this would be the case if Tarantino weren't arguably one of the biggest movie buffs in the modern film industry. So if you haven't seen these 20 movies personally recommended by Quentin Tarantino, we suggest you do so as soon as possible!

20 Great Movies Tarantino Recommends Watching

20. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

19. Apocalypse Now

18. The Bad News Bears

17. Black Sabbath

16. Dazed and Confused

15. Deep Red

14. Easy Rider

13. Enter the Void

12. Frances Ha

11. The Great Escape

10. Mad Max: Fury Road

9. Rio Bravo

8. The Skin I Live In

7. The Social Network

6. Sorcerer

5. There Will Be Blood

4. Top Gun: Maverick

3. Toy Story 3

2. Unfaithfully Yours

1. West Side Story

The filmmaker's oeuvre is characterized by...

Ryan Reynolds leads an all-star cast in a sweet, if a little messy, tale of imaginary friends reconnecting with the grown-ups who once bid them goodbye

If, the new kids comedy from John Krasinski, has all the elements of a family friendly hit: a healthy dose of sentimentality, a heavy emphasis on the power of a child’s imagination and a prerequisite of tragedy undergirding on a girl’s journey. Also, an expensive mix of live-action and animation and an all-star cast of voice actors – among them, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Amy Schumer, Bradley Cooper, Maya Rudolph and Krasinski’s wife, Emily Blunt – playing a roster of Imaginary Friends (Ifs) forgotten by their grown-up creators and companions.

On paper, Krasinski’s first kids film as a writer-director checks the boxes, though in practice it’s not quite as cuddly as Blue, the giant purple bear hug of an If hammily voiced by Steve Carell,...

The majority of Pixar films are not to be watched without tissues. From the furnace farewell in Toy Story 3, to the ‘Married Life’ sequence in Up, to the ‘Remember Me’ scene in Coco, the studio tends to have one hand placed firmly on your tear-ducts. And that’s not to mention Inside Out, perhaps the most emotionally effective of any Pixar film. The ‘death’ of Bing Bong, the first foray through young Riley’s mind, the reconciliation of Joy and Sadness… it’s a non-stop heart-squeezer. And that’s a tough act to follow for this year’s Inside Out 2, following Riley through puberty as a raft of new emotions – chiefly Anxiety, plus Envy, Embarrassment and Ennui – come into play.

According to incoming writer Dave Holstein, the newly-developed ‘Belief System’ in Riley’s mind isn’t just a cool environment for the sequel to explore – it’s going...

Whoopi Goldberg Opens Up About How Her Mother Couldn’t Recognize Her After Shock Therapy. (Photo Credit – Instagram)

American actor Whoopi Goldberg is a multifaceted woman who has won multiple honors, including an Oscar, Emmy, and a Grammy award. She is in the news for her upcoming new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me,” where she opens up about a tragic time in her childhood when her mother forgot Goldberg. Keep scrolling for the deets.

For the unversed, Whoopi was born Caryn Elaine Johnson and is one of the few entertainers to win the Egot, short form for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards. She got her breakthrough in acting with the movie The Color Purple. She received her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the fantasy film Ghost. Goldberg is also an accomplished voice actor who has lent her voice in 1994’s The Lion King and Toy Story 3.