This week “Inside Out 2” set an all-time Juneteenth box office record, some $30 million, raced by “Dune 2” to become the biggest blockbuster of 2024 ($340 million+ by weekend’s end) and is on a pace to clear another $95 million+ this post-Juneteenth weekend, its second week of release.

It’s a global phenomenon, clearing some $724 million already. 

Think there’ll be an”Inside Out 3?”

“Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” is still holding audience and will clear the $150 million mark by Tuesday or Wed. of next week, with $18-19 million coming in this weekend. Not exactly a masterpiece, but that’s all money in the bank for the studio and its 50something stars.

Focus Features’ gamble on an aimless, tame and dull biker thriller/bio-pic, “The Bikeriders,” isn’t paying off. A $9.5 million opening weekend isn’t terrible. As Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer and Austin Butler aren’t box office stars, and director Jeff Nichols (“Mud”) is closer to his indie roots than anybody you make bank with, it’s looking like this won’t earn back its $40 million budget. Inexplicably, it got good reviews in some quarters.

That damned dirty apes of “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” are setting a franchise mark for box office, marching on with another $3.5-$4 million this weekend, closing in on the $170-175 million mark before this spring hit finally surrenders its screens.

Tiny distributor Vertical tried to pull a fast one with Russell Crow’s “The Exorcism.” He’s not playing “The Pope’s Exorcist,” a cute, roly poly priest tootering around Europe on a Vespa in papal livery. This isn’t a sequel. Vertical opened it wide betting that people wouldn’t figure that out. Crowe plays an actor in it, and he might have guessed that he was soiling his “brand” by doing another exoricism movie that isn’t a sequel. But whatever.

He and his movie and Vertical Releasing are facing utter audience indifference, as “The Exorcism” won’t clear $2 million by much.

June Squib’s action debut “Thelma” cleared $2 million in limited release.