Toy Story 5 Powers Up With Strongest Preview Opening of 2026 So Far

Toy Story 5 looks primed to go different immense deed for Pixar and Disney, aft a lucrative preview period.

The animated sequel has notched up $17.5 cardinal successful home previews, Variety reported, besting euphony biopic Michael's caller $12.6 cardinal full to gain the year's biggest preview show to day (or, successful different words, until adjacent month's Spider-Man: Brand New Day).

Industry analysts task Toy Story 5 to gain a further $150 cardinal this play astatine the precise least, importantly much than the $130 cardinal raked successful by Toy Story 4 implicit its opening fewer days, and each connected apical of a further $135 cardinal expected from overseas.

Released backmost successful 2019, Toy Story 4's container bureau yet topped retired astatine $1 billion, a fig that lone 1 movie this twelvemonth has managed: Nintendo and Illumination's ain Super Mario Galaxy Movie. But with the supra figures expected for Toy Story 5's opening, it looks similar Woody and institution volition dethrone Mario arsenic this year's biggest animated movie soon enough.

Toy Story 5 summons income person reportedly been boosted by reviews for the movie, which person been mostly affirmative — indeed, IGN's ain verdict returned a 7/10. "With a fistful of caller characters adding immoderate caller batteries to the mix, and sidelining the close bequest characters astatine the close time, the 5th installment of Pixar’s main lawsuit finds different bully mode to wrapper up," we wrote successful IGN's Toy Story 5 review. "At slightest until the inevitable Toy Story 6…"

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