Overview
- Friday box‑office indicators showed a $17.5 million preview haul and roughly $71 million in early Friday receipts that have lifted weekend projections.
- Industry trackers most commonly place the U.S./Canada opening between about $145 million and $175 million, with some user‑reported forums projecting $160–170 million or more.
- Those projections remain provisional and could shift as actual daily totals close, so official weekend and international numbers are still pending.
- Reporting cites a production budget figure near $250 million plus tens of millions in marketing, and analysts say global performance and weekend holds will decide real profitability.
- For context, Toy Story 4 opened to about $120 million domestically and grossed roughly $1 billion worldwide, making this weekend a key test of Disney/Pixar’s summer tentpole strategy.