Toy Story 5 has crossed a billion dollars worldwide. Pixar’s sequel cleared the milestone over the weekend in its sixth frame, reaching $1.022 billion globally on the strength of $448 million domestically and $573 million internationally. It is now the highest grossing release of 2026 and the sixth film in Pixar’s history to reach ten figures. It is a very different story elsewhere on Disney’s ledger, where the live-action Moana continues to fade.
Pixar Joins The Billion Dollar Club Again
Toy Story 5 becomes the third release of 2026 to pass a billion, following The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, both of which sit at roughly $1.001 billion. Toy Story 5 has already climbed past both to take the top spot for the year. Within Pixar’s own catalog it joins Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Finding Dory, Incredibles 2 and Inside Out 2 as the studio’s sixth billion dollar earner, and three of those six now come from Woody and Buzz.
The run has been notable less for its opening than for its durability. Directed by Andrew Stanton, the film added roughly $34 million globally over its sixth weekend, including about $10 million in North America. It is closing in on the $1.07 billion lifetime total of Toy Story 4 and should take the franchise record within days, thirty-one years after the original arrived in theaters.
Moana Cannot Find Its Footing
The live-action Moana took third place on Friday with $3.1 million domestically and is tracking to around $10.8 million across its third weekend, which would push its domestic haul to roughly $102 million. Worldwide the film has only just passed the $200 million mark against a reported $250 million production budget, a gap that industry analysis suggests could leave Disney out roughly $100 million once marketing and distribution are factored in.
The trajectory was set early. A steep second weekend drop signaled the film was never going to build the legs the studio needed, and international performance has run somewhat ahead of domestic without changing the arithmetic.
An Uneven Summer For Disney
Taken together the season has been a genuine mixed bag. The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been a substantial win at roughly $688 million worldwide and Toy Story 5 has performed at the very top end of expectations. On the other side sit Moana and The Mandalorian and Grogu, the latter of which finished around $340 million against a $165 million budget, a result that reads respectably in isolation and considerably less so given the spend. Pixar’s other 2026 release, the original film Hoppers, closed out near $385 million.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey remains the weekend’s headline act elsewhere, holding to $87 million in its second domestic frame for a drop of under 30 percent from its $123.5 million debut. That is the biggest second weekend of Nolan’s career and stands above the entire opening weekend of Oppenheimer. Universal’s epic is now at roughly $639.6 million worldwide and is positioned to become the fourth billion dollar release of the year.
The competitive picture changes considerably next week when Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrives on July 31. Full weekend figures are available via Variety. All figures remain estimates until studios report actuals on Monday.
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