Toy Story 5 just had the biggest box office opening of 2026, and it isn’t even close
$160 million domestic, a franchise record, and a $312 million global start. Pixar’s toys are still the most reliable money in the building, and the rest of the summer is now fighting over the leftovers.
Pixar pointed at the prized June weekend it’s owned for thirty years, dropped Toy Story 5 on it, and the toys did exactly what the toys always do.
The film opened to $160 million domestically, according to Disney’s Sunday estimates, the single biggest opening weekend any movie has managed in 2026. Add $152 million overseas and the global start lands at $312 million.
For a fifth entry in a franchise that started in 1995, that’s not a victory lap. That’s a land speed record.
The records it broke on the way up
There are a few, and they stack.
It’s a franchise best, clearing Toy Story 4‘s $120.9 million opening from 2019. It’s the biggest domestic debut of the year, knocking off the $131.7 million that the Super Mario Galaxy movie posted back in April. And it’s the second-biggest opening ever for an animated film in the U.S., trailing only Pixar’s own Incredibles 2 and its $182.6 million from 2018.
Audiences handed it an A CinemaScore and a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, the franchise’s fourth A-grade in five movies.
It got there fast, too. Toy Story 5 pulled $17.5 million in Thursday previews and a near-record $71 million on Friday, the best single day at the box office since Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024.
Disney had a friend in Taylor Swift
One late addition is worth singling out, because it’s the kind of move that quietly nudges a number.
Pixar got a song out of Taylor Swift for the soundtrack, “I Knew It, I Know You,” and slotted it into the campaign late. Deadline figures it pulled any on-the-fence Swifties through the door. Pair that with the franchise’s built-in multigenerational hook, grandparents and parents and kids all buying the same ticket, and you get the walk-up business Disney saw on opening day: nearly half of buyers grabbed their tickets the same day they went.
That’s the part that should worry the competition. Toy Story 5 isn’t only selling to its own fans. It’s selling to everyone’s.
What it means for everyone opening after it
Here’s where it stops being a Pixar story and becomes everyone else’s problem.
An A CinemaScore and a 93% audience score are the markers of a movie that holds, the kind that barely dips in week two because word of mouth keeps doing the work. Which loops right back to the film opening next.
Supergirl hits June 26, the same weekend Toy Story 5 takes its second lap, and a movie this beloved isn’t going to step aside to make room. Run a normal Pixar hold and Toy Story 5‘s second weekend alone clears what Supergirl is tracking to open with.
So the likeliest picture next Friday is Kara Zor-El debuting at number two, behind a cartoon that’s already been out a week. That’s not a knock on Supergirl. It’s the cost of standing next to the most dependable franchise in the building during one of its best weekends ever.
The toys came back, the whole family turned up, and the rest of the summer is suddenly centered around a movie about a sentient spork.
Pixar still owns June, and everyone else just got the reminder.
Hat Tips:
Deadline (June 21, 2026), verified for the $160 million domestic opening, the $312 million global start, the $71 million Friday and $17.5 million previews, the A CinemaScore, the 93% audience score, the same-day-ticket walk-up data, and the Taylor Swift soundtrack detail
Variety and The Hollywood Reporter (June 21, 2026), verified for the franchise-record framing, the biggest-2026-opening claim, and the comparison to Toy Story 4’s $120.9 million debut
Box Office Mojo, verified for Incredibles 2’s $182.6 million animated opening record and the Super Mario Galaxy movie’s $131.7 million 2026 debut
Box Office Theory (June 2026), verified for Supergirl’s tracking and the June 26 calendar overlap with Toy Story 5’s second weekend