Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler) protects her pals in 'Inside Out 2'. Photo: Pixar Margot Robbie starred as Barbie in the smash-hit movie, which pulled in over €9.9m in Ireland last year Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is on track to be Ireland’s box-office smash-hit of the year.
It has taken in more than €6.2m here, while global sales of over €1.5bn have already made it the highest-grossing animated picture of all time.
According to industry experts, it is now all but certain that the coming-of-age film will be the best-performing movie of 2024, in what is proving to be a lucrative year for the cinema industry. Last year, box-office receipts topped €100m for the first time in four years, as Barbie pulled in over €9.9m in Ireland to become the biggest box-office hit of all time in this country.
Industry watchdogs have predicted that a string of upcoming releases — including Gladiator II in November, with Irish star Paul Mescal — will help secure another bumper year for the big screen. Cassandra Joyce, group sales director at Pearl & Dean Ireland, said: “2024 has been the year of family blockbusters, with five of the top 10 movies so far this year being family releases. Margot Robbie starred as Barbie in the smash-hit movie, which pulled in over €9.
9m in Ireland last year “Inside Out 2 is strongly positioned as the biggest film of the year to date, and is now ranked just outside the top 10 films of all time in Ireland. It will be hard to knock it off the number one spo.