Animation is the shining star at the box office this week, as it’s revealed that Pixar‘s 31st feature film, Toy Story 5, has enjoyed the biggest opening weekend of the smash-hit family franchise, overtaking previous record holder Toy Story 4 in the process.
Toy Story 5, the latest installment in Pixar‘s beloved film series, has grossed a global amount of $312 million at the box office, obtained from a domestic opening of $160 million and an international opening of $152 million, reports Variety. This tops Toy Story 4‘s record-breaking opening box office gross of $244 million worldwide, comprising a domestic gross of $124 million and an international gross of $120 million. At the time, this was the biggest-ever opening for an animated film, and it later went on to surpass the $1 billion mark.
The exact difference between the two films’ opening grosses is $68 million globally. This breaks down as $36 million domestically and $32 million internationally.
Pixar‘s current highest-grosser is 2024’s Inside Out 2, which grossed $1.69 billion globally, composed of $652 million domestically and $1.045 billion internationally. This sequel to the 2015 film saw an opening gross of $295 million globally, thanks to a domestic gross of $155 million and an international one of $140 million, placing it $17 million behind that of Toy Story 5 ($5 million domestic difference and $12 million international difference).
These numbers place Toy Story 5 as the ninth highest-grossing release of 2026 so far, $40 million ahead of Backrooms ($272 million globally) and $9 million behind Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu ($321 million globally). Toy Story 5 is currently $693 million behind the highest-grossing film of the year, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which has amassed a global gross of $1 billion.
Toy Story 5 is directed by Pixar veteran Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) and sees Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Joan Cusack return as voice actors, alongside Conan O’Brien, Scarlett Spears, Greta Lee, Shelby Rabara, Mykal-Michelle Harris, and Craig Robinson. The film sees our beloved band of old toys deal with their owner Bonnie becoming addicted to a LilyPad tablet and abandoning them in the process.
Elsewhere, hot topic horrors Obsession, directed by Curry Barker, and Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons, continue to storm the box office with the former crossing the $300 million mark globally against its budget of $750,000. Barker’s supernatural cautionary tale of male desire added another $10.9 million internationally to its gross over the weekend, and Parsons’ surrealist adaptation of his own successful Backrooms YouTube series grew by $8.5 million internationally.
Additionally, with $41 million left to go to hit the $1 billion mark, Antoine Fuqua’s musical biopic, Michael, earned $3.8 million internationally and $2.1 million domestically for an additional global gross of $5.9 million. Charting the beginnings and solo breakout of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, the film is now the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time.
To become the highest-grossing biopic ever made, Michael would have to gross another $16 million-$16.8 million globally to beat the current record-holder, Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer, thanks to the latter film’s enormous grosses of $330.1 million domestically and $645.7 million internationally. Nolan’s new movie The Odyssey, is released on July 17th.
Toy Story 5 is in cinemas now.
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