Toy Story 5 has crossed $1 billion worldwide and moved ahead of every other 2026 release at the global box office. The milestone arrived during its sixth weekend in theaters, after another $34 million from audiences around the world.
TheWrap reported that it is Pixar's sixth billion-dollar movie. Three of those six are Toy Story films: Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, and now Toy Story 5. The new sequel has also passed this year's other billion-dollar releases, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Michael.
The Biggest Movie of 2026, for Now
Calling Toy Story 5 the biggest movie of the year refers to worldwide ticket sales. It does not mean every viewer preferred it, and the 2026 calendar is not finished. Spider-Man: Brand New Day and other major releases still have time to take the top position. At this moment, Woody, Buzz, and Jessie are leading the year.
The movie opened with $312 million worldwide and kept selling tickets after the first weekend. Family films often depend on repeat visits, school breaks, and audiences choosing a convenient date instead of rushing to the first Thursday night. Six weeks of steady business pushed the total past $1 billion.
Worldwide box office counts the value of tickets sold in every reported market. It is not the amount Pixar and Disney keep, since theaters receive part of the money and the studio still pays for production and marketing. Crossing $1 billion remains a rare public measure of how many people chose the movie in theaters instead of waiting to watch it at home.
The result also shows how strongly the Toy Story name still connects with parents and children. The first movie arrived in 1995, so adults who grew up with Woody and Buzz can now take their own kids. Pixar did not have to introduce the characters again. The challenge was giving returning viewers a new conflict that felt familiar without copying the previous endings.
Toy Story 5 puts the toys against Lilypad, a tablet that takes Bonnie's attention away from traditional play. The story uses a problem many families already discuss at home: how much time children spend with screens. That subject gave the sequel a current idea while keeping the emotional focus on toys worrying that they are no longer needed.
Toy Story 4 Is the Next Record
Toy Story 4 finished its theatrical run with about $1.07 billion worldwide. Toy Story 5 is now close enough to pass it and become the highest-grossing movie in the franchise without adjusting older totals for inflation. A few more strong weekends would be enough.
Passing Toy Story 4 would carry more weight than the $1 billion headline alone. The fourth movie was widely presented as another ending for Woody, and a fifth film faced immediate questions about whether Pixar was continuing the series only because the name was valuable. The box office shows that a large audience was willing to return anyway.
This is not a complete measure of how people felt about the movie. Ticket sales tell us how many people paid to see it, not whether every scene worked for them. They do answer the business question that surrounded the sequel before release: Toy Story is still one of Pixar's largest worldwide franchises.
Pixar now has six films above $1 billion, including Finding Dory, Incredibles 2, and Inside Out 2. Sequels make up that entire group. Original movies remain important to the studio, but familiar characters continue to bring the largest theatrical audiences.
The Toy Story series has been especially consistent. Its third, fourth, and fifth movies all reached $1 billion without adjusting their totals for changing ticket prices. Very few animated series can keep producing that level of business across releases separated by many years.
Toy Story 5 holds the 2026 box-office lead today and is approaching a new franchise record. The ranking may change before December, but the billion-dollar total will remain. After five movies and more than three decades, audiences are still buying tickets to spend time with these toys.
