Inside Out 2 Box Office Previews Impress for Pixar Sequel

The moment Pixar revealed the first new characters in Inside Out 2, fans of the animation studio started arguing about the film’s basic conceit. 2015’s Inside Out centered on five characters who represent the basic emotions of an 11-year-old girl named Riley: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. In the sequel, Riley hits puberty on her 13th birthday, and new emotions suddenly take form in her head: Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment, and Ennui. Fans of the first film had a lot of questions and complaints: Aren’t these emotions just minor variants of the existing ones? Why are they all negative? And above all, why weren’t any of these emotionsaround in the first movie?

is currently eying an opening box office weekend of over $200 million.

The problem with iterating on a movie as perfectly complete as Pete Docter’s 2015 Pixar feature Inside Out is that a neatly closed narrative loop doesn’t leave a lot of obvious next steps for the story. Inside Out is half a world-building exercise in establishing an elaborate visual metaphor and testing its flexibility, half a coming-of-age story about an 11-year-old navigating a big life change. But its real point is confirming to the audience that sadness — an element that’s core to Pixar’s best movies — isn’t just an inescapable part of life, it has an important purpose. So what’s left for a sequel? Reiterating that sadness still isn’t all bad? Moving down the list of characters to express the importance of anger and fear?

Some exciting plans for Season 2 were unveiled by the series’ co-showrunners, Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, who announced that the second part of the post-apocalyptic drama will explore the world of . 

The developers of PUBG Mobile, KRAFTON, are getting ready for a fresh Closed Beta Test, or CBT for Dark and Darker Mobile. If you didn’t try the Beta launched in April, you might want to give it a shot now. This test is for gamers in South Korea, Turkey, Japan, and the United States and will start in early August. We don’t have any word on the exact release date, yet.

is set to release in just a few days, and early box office projections point to the Disney sequel being another strong movie to perform this summer.

Live service kart racer Disney Speedstorm is continuing to expand on its extensive character roster, with the upcoming Inside Out season adding a further five racers from 13th June – with two more mystery additions to be added later on. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness will all be suiting up to join the race, ahead of the new movie later this month.

It's always nice to highlight a really promising indie project, and we like to think that The Precinct fits the bill. We actually wrote about this one a whole 12 months ago, but now it has a PS5 release date. The top-down police sim arrives on the 15th August.

Intel has pledged to break NVIDIA's dominance over AI markets by collaborating with big tech companies, consolidating its position against NVIDIA.

Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die made mincemeat of the competition in this week’s box office results, collecting a robust $56 million in its first week of release. That’s slightly less than the $62.5M debut of 2020’s Bad Boys for Life but a notch above the $46M collected by Michael Bay’s Bad Boys II in 2003 (unadjusted for inflation).

Square-Enix and Deck Nine Games have revealed, a direct sequel to the original game, which will be released this October.

Samsung has been making quite the buzz lately, and it seems that repair services are a hot topic for all kinds of controversies. First, the company's anti-consumer repair policies led to quite a stir. Then, Samsung's demand for customer information from third-party repair shops received much backlash and raised serious concerns regarding consumer rights. Additionally, iFixit ended its partnership with Samsung because of the different approaches to customer repair service. Now, Best Buy is said to be parting ways with Samsung and is no longer part of their service program.