This weekend was enough to make a Pixar executive experience all the emotions at once. Inside Out opened to $91 million at the domestic box office this weekend, the studio’s second best debut behind Toy Story 3 ($110.3 million), making the tear jerking journey inside the mind a bona fide smash hit by any measure. That honor belonged to Jurassic World, which made a towering $102 million in its second weekend, following up last week’s record-wrecking $207.4 million debut. Pixar roared back to life after a more than two-year dormancy with a brainy masterpiece, soaring well above the $60 million-plus projections; while Jurassic World became only the second movie to ring the $100 million bell in back-to-back weekends. And here’s something Inside Out has over Jurassic World: The Pixar film was the highest weekend opening gross in history for a wholly original film, meaning it’s not based on something else, e.g. a comic book or previous movie.
