Toy Story 5 steamrolls the summer box office as rival blockbusters sputter
Toy Story 5 is steamrolling the summer box office, racing toward $600 million worldwide with $585 million banked by weekend two as rival tentpoles stall. Here are the weekend’s winners and losers from a wild run at the movies.
If you thought Toy Story 5 might flag a bit at the box office this summer, think again. It’s absolutely eating the competition alive while other big studio projects can barely get out the gate. Let’s dig into who’s winning (clue: a talking cowboy doll) and who’s crashing and burning (there’s plenty of those).
Toy Story 5: Still on a Tear
Right, so Toy Story 5 is closing in on that magical half-a-billion-dollar mark and then some. By the end of its second weekend in cinemas, the Disney/Pixar juggernaut had wrangled $585 million worldwide. In its second frame alone, it raked in $159.1 million more globally. Not shabby for a fifth film.
In the US, Toy Story 5 is now sitting pretty at $297.2 million after picking up another $70 million over the weekend. The sequel, directed by Andrew Stanton (if that name rings bells, he’s the bloke behind Finding Nemo and WALL-E), dropped 56% from its opening haul, but that’s perfectly respectable – basically on par with Incredibles 2, which holds the record for biggest animated opening ever.
Internationally, Toy Story 5 topped virtually every territory in its second week. Here’s a quick look at where the overseas cash is coming from:
- Mexico: $48 million
- UK: $37.8 million
- China: $29.8 million
- France: $15.7 million
- Brazil: $12.6 million
- Australia: $12.6 million
Current total: $585 million, halfway to a billion and not slowing down.
Supergirl Can’t Get Off The Ground
Not everyone’s winning this month. Warner Bros. launched Supergirl and, quite frankly, the numbers are not looking heroic. Worldwide opener? $68 million, which is rough given reports the production budget was somewhere between $170 million and $186 million. In the US alone, it managed just $38 million, and internationally another $30 million spread across 77 different countries. Even compared to Joker: Folie à Deux, which made $114.8 million its opening weekend, Supergirl is lagging massively.
More Big Names, More Box Office Faceplants
Actually, Supergirl’s in good company. 2026’s seen a string of high-profile movies stumble out the blocks:
- Masters of the Universe (Amazon MGM) – $29.4 million in its US debut
- The Mandalorian and Grogu (Disney) – $175.2 million domestic after six weekends (not great by recent Star Wars standards)
- Mortal Kombat 2 (Warner Bros.) – another early-year struggler
The Market Overall: Summer Surge
All that said, the general box office health is actually pretty solid. The year-to-date domestic haul is now $4.7 billion, which puts 2026 up 15% compared to this point last year. Summer numbers are even better – $2.1 billion and counting, about 17% above last summer’s pace.
As for what’s raking in the real money: Super Mario Galaxy is king with $1 billion worldwide, followed by the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, which is just behind at $977.4 million globally. Universal’s Minions and Monsters has just started its run, pulling $10.3 million from ten countries so far.
In case you’re keeping score, it’s sequels and familiar brands dominating (again), with original and riskier projects struggling to catch up – even if the wider business is looking healthier than it did last summer.