Toy Story 5 crossed $764 million worldwide and is now on pace to become the franchise's highest-grossing movie

Three weekends in, the number that matters for Toy Story 5 is no longer the opening. It is the finish line.

Disney and Pixar's sequel crossed $764.3 million worldwide over the July 4th frame, and the studio's own math now has it running toward somewhere between $1.05 and $1.2 billion before it leaves theaters. If it lands in that range, it passes Toy Story 4 and its $1.073 billion to become the biggest movie the series has ever produced. For a fifth entry in a franchise that has said goodbye to Woody at least twice, that is a strange and impressive place to be.

The domestic side did the quiet work. Toy Story 5 added $31 million over the three-day weekend, a 56.2% drop that reads worse on paper than it plays. It came in second only because Minions & Monsters opened into the holiday, and Universal's newcomer edged it $36.4 million to $31 million. Second place with a hold like that, against fresh family competition, is the kind of week that turns a big opener into a long earner. Its running domestic total sits at $366.3 million.

Where the money is coming from

The overseas run is carrying the trajectory. Toy Story 5 has pulled $398 million from international markets, a hair below its domestic haul, and it is still opening in places rather than fading out of them. It added $69.3 million from 50 markets this weekend alone.

Japan is the headline. The film scored the biggest opening weekend a Hollywood release has ever had in the country, with $14.6 million, a market that does not automatically hand American animation that kind of debut. Mexico, the U.K., and China have all become nine-figure or near-nine-figure contributors.

International market cumes per Variety's July 5 studio estimates.

Why it is holding

Part of this is the release date. Toy Story 5 opened June 19 to $159.7 million, the biggest debut of 2026 and a franchise opening record, then had the summer more or less to itself for families until this weekend. Part of it is that the movie is simply working with audiences.

Andrew Stanton, who wrote the first four films and directed Finding Nemo and WALL-E, took this one over, with Kenna Harris co-directing and Randy Newman back for his fifth Toy Story score. The pitch Pete Docter has used is "Toy meets Tech": Bonnie is eight now and glued to a frog-shaped tablet named Lilypad, voiced by Greta Lee, and the toys are stuck doing the thing the whole series has always been about, which is figuring out what happens to them when the kid stops needing them. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Joan Cusack are all back. It is a premise that could have curdled into a lecture about screens. That it did not is most of the reason the holds look like this.

What it means for the summer

A billion-dollar animated sequel is not a shock. Toy Story 3 and 4 both cleared it, and Inside Out 2 reset the ceiling in 2024. The wrinkle is the summer around it. Franchise returns have been uneven, and Minions & Monsters just posted the worst opening in its own series' history the same weekend Toy Story 5 held second with a drop this soft. Audiences will still turn out in enormous numbers for one of these. They will not do it on the logo alone.