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'Toy Story 5' bags biggest opening weekend for 2026 with $160-M haul

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JESSIE AND BULLSEYE

Agence France-Presse

<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17820799911142026062123060_TOYSTORY5-ONLINE-USE_t610_210f.pub16.460.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960" alt="Jessie and Bullseye are on a brand new adventure in &quot;Toy Story 5.&quot; Handout"/>Jessie and Bullseye are on a brand new adventure in &quot;Toy Story 5.&quot; Handout</div><div> </div><div> </div>LOS ANGELES - Disney&#x27;s &quot;Toy Story 5&quot; romped to the best opening weekend of the year, raking in $160 million in North America, industry estimates showed Sunday, a record for the much-loved Pixar franchise.The sequel, which debuted over Father&#x27;s Day weekend, features Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear and their gang of toys fighting for survival against competition from technology, particularly a tablet.&quot;This is prime family moviegoing season and &#x27;Toy Story&#x27; is delivering,&quot; said industry analyst David A. Gross.Gross called it &quot;another sensational opening for a Pixar series sequel,&quot; noting that &quot;Toy Story 5&quot; had the best starting weekend for any film in the franchise, an estimated 37 percent higher than &quot;Toy Story 4.&quot;That will likely make it the second-biggest animated movie opening of all time, behind Disney unit Pixar&#x27;s &quot;Incredibles 2,&quot; which made $182.7 million in June 2018, he said.&quot;Family moviegoing has been leading the industry since it came roaring back from the pandemic in 2023,&quot; Gross added. &quot;A lot of the genre&#x27;s success is coming from sequels, live-action remakes of animation pictures, and hybrid combinations.&quot;&quot;Toy Story 5&quot; -- which returns with Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack voicing key characters -- opened on 4,425 screens across the United States and Canada over the weekend, Exhibitor Relations&#x27; estimates showed.Runner-up in the weekend box office take was the Stephen Spielberg-directed sci-fi thriller &quot;Disclosure Day,&quot; which debuted the previous weekend.With an ensemble cast led by Emily Blunt and Josh O&#x27;Connor, the action-packed Universal film follows an effort to reveal a decades-long coverup of extraterrestrial visitations.It brought in an estimated $17 million, lifting its total to $78.2 million, according to estimates.In third place was Focus Features&#x27; indie horror hit &quot;Obsession,&quot; which took in another $14 million in its sixth week out for a total domestic haul of $215.8 million, data showed.A24&#x27;s horror film &quot;Backrooms&quot; remained in fourth place with $7.3 million, taking its domestic total to $175 million in its fourth week out.Coming in fifth was Paramount&#x27;s &quot;Scary Movie,&quot; a reboot of the parody franchise, earning $6.7 million in its third week out.Rounding out the top 10 were:&quot;Masters of the Universe&quot; ($5.6 million)&quot;Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu&quot; ($3.9 million)&quot;Leviticus&quot; (debuted at $2.7 million)&quot;The Death of Robin Hood&quot; (debuted $2.6 million)&quot;Michael&quot; ($2.2 million)mjf/jgc

Disney's "Toy Story 5" romped to the best opening weekend of the year, raking in $160 million in North America, industry estimates showed Sunday, a record for the much-loved Pixar franchise.

Disney's "Toy Story 5" romped to the best opening weekend of the year, raking in $160 million in North America, industry estimates showed Sunday, a record for the much-loved Pixar franchise.