This week on the business, Meglifove and Dave Holstein co-wrote Pixar's Mega Hit, Inside Out 2,

the biggest movie of the year with a box office gross of more than $1.6 billion.

That's a welcome relief after Pixar and Disney animation hit some rough waters in the past few years.

But while she was working on the film, the Fov says she felt no pressure.

I never, while I was writing this movie, was ever asked or talked to about, you know, box

office or success. It always is a question of, is this the best story?

Meglifov co-wrote the first Inside Out. For the sequel, she worked with Dave Holstein. We talked

about the importance of putting

animated movies in theaters instead of only on the streamer, as former Disney CEO Bob Chappick

did during his tenure. I also asked whether the Pixar culture has changed since John Lasseter

departed among misconduct allegations in 2018. But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from

KCRW. Hi, I'm joined by my partner in banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So, we are

winding to the end of the summer. Studios don't usually put something big on the Labor Day weekend

because it is thought that people are busy getting ready to go back to school and not running

out to the movies. But all in all, the summer, after a lot, a lot of hand-wringing at the beginning,

a couple of things didn't work, and people were like, oh, my God, the end is near. And then

it turned around. And It wasn't the biggest

ever, but it was not bad. Yeah. Overall, the box office this summer is down about 19, 20 percent,

from 2023. Not great, but it's actually up from 2022. So, and if you looked at those numbers in May when movies like,

The Fall Guy and Furiosa came out and just did very little business, there was a sense

that the sky may be falling because the strike, the strike really hampered a lot of the

output this summer.

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