Toy Story 5 posts franchise-best opening weekend

Toy Story 5 breaks franchise records with a $312M global opening weekend See how Disney and Pixar powered a huge Father’s Day debut and premium turnout

Disney and Pixar’s "Toy Story 5" opened to $160 million in domestic ticket sales over the weekend, setting a new franchise record. The film also added $152 million overseas, bringing its estimated global threeday total to $312 million. The result gives the fifth installment the secondlargest opening ever for an animated movie, behind only "Incredibles 2." It also outperformed the previous Toy Story franchise record set by "Toy Story 4," which opened to $120.9 million in 2019. The strong start came during Father’s Day weekend, with about 11.5 million people seeing the movie, according to EntTelligence. More than a quarter of viewers chose premium largeformat screenings, and IMAX said it generated $11.5 million domestically and $18.4 million globally.