Toy Story 5 opened to an estimated $312 million worldwide this weekend, including $160 million domestically and $152 million internationally, marking the biggest global opening of 2026 and the largest opening weekend in the franchise’s history.
The domestic number surpassed the Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s $130.9 million three-day opening from April, making Toy Story 5 the biggest domestic debut of the year so far. It also crushed the franchise’s previous best, Toy Story 4’s $120.9 million domestic opening in 2019, and topped that film’s $238 million worldwide debut by a wide margin. Zootopia 2 still leads as the biggest opening weekend with $560.3 million
Audiences gave Toy Story 5 an A CinemaScore, and the film’s biggest overseas markets were Mexico at $26.6 million, the United Kingdom at $20 million, China at $18 million, and France at $7.2 million. It ranks as the second-highest international debut in Pixar history behind Inside Out 2.
Andrew Stanton, the Pixar veteran behind Finding Nemo and WALL-E, directs Toy Story 5 alongside co-director Kenna Harris. The film reunites Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, and Joan Cusack as Jessie as the gang confronts Lilypad, a new tablet voiced by Greta Lee that pulls their owner Bonnie’s attention away from her toys. For everything revealed about Jessie’s expanded role in this installment, see our previous Toy Story 5 coverage.
Disney noted that in the lead-up to the film’s release, the first four Toy Story films drove more than 60 million hours of viewing on Disney+, the largest pre-release streaming lift the company has tracked for an upcoming theatrical release. The four existing films have generated more than $3 billion globally, with two individually crossing the $1 billion mark, setting the stage for Toy Story 5’s record debut.
If you are headed to see it this weekend, every theater chain’s exclusive Toy Story 5 popcorn buckets and collectibles, including the AMC Buzz Lightyear bucket, Cinemark, Regal, and Marcus exclusives, plus the Bullseye bucket now available at Disneyland and Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios, are covered in our Toy Story 5 popcorn bucket guide and our Bullseye popcorn bucket guide.
Our Take: We really enjoyed Toy Story 5. The movie is excellent and shows just how far Pixar and digital animation have come since the original Toy Story, but it falls into the pattern Disney has leaned into across its recent films, where there isn’t a real villain, just a “thing.” This time the thing is technology, which is a genuinely real issue between parents and kids and deserves to be talked about. Our biggest issue is with Jessie. We get her story continued from where Toy Story 2 left it, playing out right in front of us, but Pixar and Disney could have leaned into that so much harder than they did. Right as you get the payoff of her arc, the film takes a 90-degree turn back to the technology storyline, and you never get the chance to actually sit in that moment and feel it. The whole film has a slightly disjointed quality, almost like three separate stories were written independently and then figured out how to combine into one movie afterward. To be clear, this is not a bad movie. It is fine. It is good. But it had the ingredients to wreck the audience emotionally and leave parents reflecting on their entire lives in a meaningful way, and at the end, Pixar shied away from that.
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