Toy Story 5 (2026)
About
Woody, Buzz and Jessie find their place in Bonnie's bedroom under threat from something no toy knows how to compete with: a screen.
The fifth Toy Story film picks up the franchise's long-running anxiety about obsolescence and points it squarely at modern childhood. Bonnie's attention has been captured by Lilypad, a tablet device whose confident, endlessly agreeable voice begins to dictate how playtime works. Where previous entries pitted the toys against being outgrown, lost or donated, here the rival is a piece of technology that never breaks, never gets left behind, and never stops talking.
Woody, whose defining instinct has always been loyalty to his child, finds that instinct harder to act on when the child no longer looks up. Buzz and Jessie face the same problem from different angles, and the film draws its comedy from the gulf between a toy's idea of usefulness and a device's idea of engagement.
Director Andrew Stanton framed the premise as toys versus tech, and the result is a sequel that treats its central question seriously while keeping the franchise's familiar warmth intact.
Details
Director: Andrew Stanton
Writer/Screenplay: Andrew Stanton, McKenna Harris
Producer: Lindsey Collins
Running time: 102 minutes
Certificate: PG
Budget: Reported at between $250 million and $275 million
Box office: $958 million worldwide as of July 20, 2026 ($430 million domestic, $528 million international)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Released: June 19, 2026
Music Composer: Randy Newman
Cast
- Tom Hanks as Woody
- Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear
- Joan Cusack as Jessie
- Tony Hale as Forky
- Greta Lee as Lilypad
- Conan O'Brien as Smarty Pants
- Ernie Hudson as Combat Carl
Soundtrack
- I Knew It, I Knew You written and produced by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff, performed by Taylor Swift. Released June 5, 2026 through Walt Disney Records, ahead of the film.
- Original score composed by Randy Newman, his fifth Toy Story feature.
Franchise
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Trivia
- Randy Newman has now scored all five Toy Story features.
- Taylor Swift wrote "I Knew It, I Knew You" immediately after an early screening, saying she fell in love with the film and wrote the song as soon as she got home.
- Preview screenings took $17.5 million, the best in the franchise's history and the second-best of any Pixar release.
- The film took the biggest opening weekend of 2026, a record it still held when The Odyssey (2026) set the year's biggest live-action opening a month later.
- McKenna Harris and Andrew Stanton are both CalArts graduates.
Critical Reception
Toy Story 5 was warmly received, holding a 93% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes across 85 reviews, with an identical 93% audience score. Reviewers broadly agreed that a fifth entry justified itself, praising the toys-versus-technology premise as a natural and pointed extension of the series' preoccupation with becoming obsolete. The vocal performances of returning leads Tom Hanks and Tim Allen were singled out, as was the film's willingness to treat a child's drift toward a screen as genuinely sad rather than merely comic.
Reviews
- Rotten Tomatoes critics' score of 93% from 85 reviews, earning a Certified Fresh rating.
- Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 93%.
- Critics widely described the film as a return to form and a worthy continuation of a 31-year-old story.
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Production
Toy Story 5 was produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, with Andrew Stanton directing from a screenplay he wrote with McKenna Harris, who also served as co-director. Stanton, a veteran of the studio since the original Toy Story, announced the project in 2024 with the premise described as toys versus tech.
Lindsey Collins produced. Randy Newman returned to compose the score, extending a run that covers every film in the series, while Taylor Swift contributed the original song "I Knew It, I Knew You", written and produced with Jack Antonoff and issued as a single two weeks before release.
Box Office
The film opened in the United States on June 19, 2026, taking $17.5 million in previews alone, the highest in franchise history and the second-highest of any Pixar title. It went on to record the biggest opening weekend of 2026.
By its fifth weekend the film had passed $800 million globally and stood at approximately $958 million worldwide, split between $430 million domestically and $528 million internationally. With Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4 having each crossed $1 billion, Toy Story 5 was on course to become the highest-grossing entry in the series.
