‘Toy Story 5’ unboxes the 2nd biggest opening weekend in Pixar history

Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of June 19-21, 2026.

1. Toy Story 5

Weekend gross: $160M
Total domestic gross: $160M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA

We’re still waiting for the first $200 million opening weekend of 2026 (I’m guessing that’ll be Spider-Man: Brand New Day later this summer), but Toy Story 5 easily scored the biggest debut of the year this weekend. The fifth Toy Story movie’s $160 million easily blew away The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s $131.7 million from April.

Toy Story 5’s $160 million is the second biggest opening weekend in Pixar history, trailing only Incredibles 2’s $182.7 million first weekend back in 2018.

This performance continues the trend of Pixar operating on two very different box office tracks. The studio’s sequels have been massive hits, with all of its $100M+ opening weekends coming solely from sequels. An original Pixar story hasn’t debuted higher than the $50 million range since 2015’s Inside Out opened with $90.4 million.

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2. Disclosure Day

Weekend gross: $17M
Total domestic gross: $78.3M
Last weekend: 1st
Percent drop: 62

The vibes around Disclosure Day going into the movie’s second weekend definitely felt like this film was going to drop off. While the early social media reactions were expectedly enthusiastic — that’s how it works when you want to make sure you’re invited back for future set visits and chats with the stars of a movie — I began to see honest and disappointed posts about Disclosure Day.

A 62 percent weekend-to-weekend drop for the Steven Spielberg film makes sense.

3. Obsession

Weekend gross: $14.2M
Total domestic gross: $215.8M
Last weekend: 2nd
Percent drop: 25

Obsession had already slipped past the $200 million mark in North America before even going into the weekend, and with just a 25 percent drop, the Curry Barker film continued its absurd box office performance.

4. Backrooms

Weekend gross: $7.3M
Total domestic gross: $175.2M
Last weekend: 4th
Percent drop: 37

I think Backrooms will also join Obsession in the $200 million club? Maybe. This horror film definitely slowed down after its ridiculous $81.4 million debut. With a $7.3 million fourth weekend, does Backrooms have the momentum to add another $25 million to its domestic haul?

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5. Scary Movie

Weekend gross: $6.7M
Total domestic gross: $97.6M
Last weekend: 3rd
Percent drop: 53

The confusingly titled Scary Movie keeps climbing the franchise’s box office ranks. At $97.6 million, the sixth film in the series should soon join the original Scary Movie ($157 million) and Scary Movie 3 ($110 million) in the $100 million club. Scary Movie also joins Scary Movie as the only other Scary Movie movie to cross $200 million at the global box office. (I promise that sentence makes sense.)

Box office numbers via The Numbers and Box Office Mojo based on Sunday estimates.

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