'Toy Story 5' Eyes $275M Global Franchise Record Box Office Opening - Deadline

We’ve seen Woody’s origins tale in Toy Story 2, Buzz Lightyear’s in spinoff Lightyear and all the toys nearly getting incinerated in Toy Story 3, but the fifth time around, it’s Jessie’s story. In an already-vibrant summer marketplace that’s at nearly $1.6 billion in North America — the best since 2019, per Rentrak — Disney Pixar’s Toy Story 5 will keep this bull box office season going with what’s expected to be the biggest domestic start of 2026 and franchise-best of $140M at 4,425 theaters. Of course, Toy Story 5 will have the action figure kung-fu grip of all PLFs and Imax. Worldwide, though, the Andrew Stanton-directed fifthquel is expected to be a record opening for the franchise but the second-best 2026 bow globally with $275M, $135M of that coming from an 87% footprint abroad including China. Japan is going later on July 3 and Germany is going late on July 23 after Illumination/Universal’s Minions & Monsters (where that slapstick animated comedy rallies). Germans prefer their Minions over heartwarming toys. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article1-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article") .addSize(,,,,,,,,]) .exemptFromSleep() .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; });