Toy Story 5 Opens to $160 Million, the Biggest Debut of 2026

Update, June 26: it crossed $200 million in five days

The opening number held up, and then some. Toy Story 5 passed $200 million domestically on Tuesday, its fifth day in theaters, and it got there on the back of a $23.7 million Tuesday. That is the biggest single Tuesday any movie has posted in 2026, clearing the $14.7 million the Super Mario Galaxy Movie put up earlier this year. It reached $200 million at the same clip as Inside Out 2 and Moana 2, and quicker than last fall's Zootopia 2, which took eleven days to get there before going on to $1.86 billion worldwide.

The hold is the real news. Trackers now have the second weekend landing somewhere between $88 million and $96 million, a slide of about 40 to 45 percent. For an opening this size, that is a healthy drop, and it keeps Pixar comfortably on top through the weekend. The two newcomers are not close: Supergirl is eyeing a $40 million to $50 million debut and Jackass: Best and Last around $10 million, and neither is positioned to take first.

The original opening report follows.

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Pixar's toys just posted the biggest opening weekend of the year. Toy Story 5 took in $160 million domestically over its first three days, the largest debut any movie has managed in 2026 and a record for a franchise that has been printing money for three decades.

That number does a few things at once. It tops Toy Story 4's $120.9 million opening from 2019, which had stood as the series high. It gives Pixar its strongest start since Incredibles 2. And it dragged the whole box office up with it: this was the first Friday-to-Sunday frame of 2026 to clear $200 million across all titles without a holiday doing the heavy lifting.

Where it lands in the record books

Among animated movies, only one opening has ever been bigger. Incredibles 2 started with roughly $183 million back in 2018. Toy Story 5 slots in at number two, nudging Inside Out 2 ($154.2 million) down to third. Audiences handed it an A CinemaScore, which is exactly what every Toy Story before it earned, and critics are in line too at a Certified Fresh 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The opening day told you where this was going. The film pulled around $71 million on Friday, then held through the weekend the way family movies do when parents decide the whole household is going. Overseas it added enough to push the global tally past $312 million in three days.

A little history, because the franchise's curve is worth seeing laid out:

Thirty years and the line still points up. The franchise, not counting the Lightyear spinoff, has now crossed $3 billion worldwide.

The part Disney is actually watching

A $160 million opening is the easy headline. The harder question is what the next month does to it, and Pixar drew a tough schedule.

In under two weeks, Illumination's Minions & Monsters arrives to fight for the same family ticket. Roughly ten days after that, Disney's own live-action Moana shows up hoping to repeat what Lilo & Stitch pulled off last summer. Compare that to Incredibles 2, which had a clear four-weekend runway in 2018 before another family film came near it and finished north of $608 million. Toy Story 5 does not get that room.

History says it should still be fine. Of every film that has opened above $150 million, almost all of them crossed $400 million. The honest read is that TS5 is built to join the billion-dollar club globally, but how high it climbs at home depends on whether it holds before Minions and Moana start splitting the audience. The early returns, a $200 million week and a soft second-weekend drop, point the right way.

Why it worked

Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E) directed, working from his own script, and this is the first main Toy Story made without series co-creator John Lasseter involved in any form. Randy Newman came back to score it, his tenth go with Pixar. The pitch Pete Docter has been using is blunt: "Toy meets Tech." Bonnie is eight now and glued to a frog-shaped tablet named Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee), which is bad news for a roomful of analog toys whose entire job is getting played with.

It is a premise with some teeth, and the trailer that sold it already broke records of its own, racking up more than 140 million views in its first day online. Whatever the movie is doing, people showed up to find out. They are still showing up.