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By India McCarty
TOY STORY 5 just scored the franchise’s biggest opening weekend ever.
“The fifth installment in the Pixar film series tallied $160 million during its opening weekend, the highest in franchise history,” CNBC reported.
Internationally, TOY STORY 5 earned $152 million, bringing the total estimated global box office to $312 million. TOY STORY 4 held the previous record, with $120.9 million for its 2019 opening weekend.
TOY STORY 5 also scored the second-highest opening for an animated feature, only coming in second to INCREDIBLES 2, which made $182.7 million domestically in 2018.
Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Rentrak, a company that analyzes media performance and response, spoke to CNBC about why TOY STORY 5 has been such a hit with audiences.
He explained that the movie “had appeal across every imaginable audience demographic and thus became the ultimate four-quadrant movie,” adding, “Disney and Pixar orchestrated a perfectly timed, flawlessly marketed film that charmed audiences and critics alike that is now set up for weeks of solid playability in movie theaters as it powers toward $1 billion and beyond at the worldwide box office.”
TOY STORY 5 sees the toys tackle a new enemy — technology. Woody, Buzz, Jessie and their friends must reckon with their owner Bonnie’s latest toy, a tablet called Lilypad.
“It’s about little girls and how little girls behave to each other and cliques and what tech does to little girls and how you can be mean and keep kids out, and it’s so great,” Joan Cusack, who plays Jessie, told Fandango. “I can’t believe they took it on.”
Tom Hanks, who has voiced Woody in every TOY STORY movie, spoke to PEOPLE about the latest installment, calling it “a vibrant and proper chapter in the TOY STORY canon.”
“None of us can believe that we’re still a part of it,” he added.
Lori Alan, who voices Bonnie’s mom, told Mama’s Geeky, “Every time I talk about the movie, I just can’t…I’m serious. I can’t stop crying.”
“I think it’s the right movie at the right time that is just hitting everybody’s hearts in this way that is just unexplainable,” she continued. “The world right now just needs a lot of positivity and joy.”
Movieguide®’s +1 review of TOY STORY 5 reads, “TOY STORY 5 is a wonderful ride that recreates and expands upon the joys and emotions from TOY STORY 2 in a great new adventure. Everything leads to a delightful third act that generates loads of cheers, laughs and tears. Also, the ending is very redemptive and concludes with another wedding. So, TOY STORY 5 strongly promotes traditional marriage. It also promotes friendship, good parenting, repentance, making amends, helping children, and church weddings.”
TOY STORY 5 is now playing in theaters.
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