Overview
- Three-week box-office tracking reported Thursday by Deadline places Toy Story 5 at roughly a $150 million domestic opening weekend, with tickets now on sale and a new trailer released.
- If that projection holds, the start would top Toy Story 4’s $120.9 million debut and be the biggest U.S. opening of 2026 so far, surpassing Super Mario Galaxy’s $131.7 million.
- The projected launch still falls short of Pixar’s all-time domestic animated opening of $182.6 million set by Incredibles 2, showing a ceiling for what Toy Story 5 can achieve.
- Early tracking shows especially strong first-choice interest from under-25 moviegoers and broad family appeal, and the film’s plot pits the toys against a tech device called Lilypad.
- Studios have stepped up marketing with a new trailer and ticket sales, the cast includes Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack with Greta Lee as Lilypad, and analysts warn early tracking can change before the June 19 release while noting potential upside for summer box office and related merchandise.