{"id":508267,"date":"2026-05-29T07:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/508267\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:18:17","slug":"toy-story-5-expected-to-break-franchise-record-with-150m-u-s-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/508267\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Toy Story 5&#8217; Expected to Break Franchise Record with $150M U.S. Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The return of Woody, Buzz and the playroom gang is heading for big box-office numbers, according to\u00a0Deadline. Disney-Pixar\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Toy Story 5<\/strong> is projected to score a U.S. opening total of\u00a0<strong>$150 million<\/strong> when it debuts in theaters on Friday, June 19. The pic was ranked as the No. 1 most-anticipated movie of this summer by Fandango\u2019s 2025 trends study. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animationmagazine.net\/2026\/05\/toy-story-5-unboxes-ticket-sales-with-new-trailers-voices-cast-featurette\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets are on sale now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the prediction comes true,\u00a0TS5 will be the film franchise\u2019s biggest domestic debut since\u00a0Toy Story 4 ($120.9M), which was released pre-COVID in 2019, and will overtake Universal\/Illumination\/Nintendo\u2019s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($131.7M over three days) as the biggest opening of 2026 to date. The $150M figure is pulled from three-week tracking; similar methods overestimated the launch total for\u00a0TS4. <\/p>\n<p>A great deal of\u00a0Toy Story 5\u2018s pull is the strong track record and broad fanbase for the 31-year-old Pixar franchise. Moviegoer surveys show the quinquel is polling as a first choice for women and men under 25, with overall first choice ratings in all quadrants surpassing those of TS4 and Inside Out 2 ($154.2M, 2024), but slightly below The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disney-Pixar hold the record for biggest domestic box office opening with 2018\u2019s\u00a0Incredibles 2, which pulled $182.6M in its debut weekend and currently ranks No. 8 on the all-time global highest grossing animated pics list (No. 7 excluding the photoreal Lion King\u00a0remake, No. 6 further refined for MPA titles only). Disney and Pixar hold eight out of the top 10 spots for MPA animated feature titles, led by last year\u2019s Zootopia 2,\u00a0which grossed $1.87 billion. Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2 (2025) is tops overall with $2.2B.<\/p>\n<p>Toy Story 5\u00a0is directed by Academy Award winner Andrew Stanton (WALL\u2022E,\u00a0Finding Nemo,\u00a0Finding Dory), co-directed by Kenna Harris (Ciao Alberto), produced by Lindsey Collins (Turning Red,\u00a0WALL\u2022E,\u00a0Finding Dory), and features an original score by Academy Award winner Randy Newman, who has scored all five\u00a0Toy Story\u00a0films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0The toys are back in Disney and Pixar\u2019s\u00a0Toy Story 5, and this time it\u2019s Toy meets Tech. Woody (voice of\u00a0<strong>Tom Hanks<\/strong>), Buzz Lightyear (voice of\u00a0<strong>Tim Allen<\/strong>), Jessie (voice of\u00a0<strong>Joan Cusack<\/strong>) and the rest of the gang\u2019s jobs are challenged when they come face-to-face with Lilypad (voice of\u00a0<strong>Greta Lee<\/strong>), a brand-new tablet device that arrives with her own disruptive ideas about what is best for their kid, Bonnie. Will playtime ever be the same?<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Deadline]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of Woody, Buzz and the playroom gang is heading for big box-office numbers, according to\u00a0Deadline. 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