Plus, Curry Barker’s “Obsession” proves it has seriously scary staying power, holding fast at No. 3 domestically in its sixth week of release.

Toy Story 5 takes the box office to infinity and beyond with franchise-best $312 million premiere

Plus, Curry Barker's "Obsession" proves it has seriously scary staying power, holding fast at No. 3 domestically in its sixth week of release.

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June 21, 2026 4:59 p.m. ET

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- *Toy Story 5 *has broken franchise and box office records with its $160 million domestic and $312 million global premiere.

- The independent horror film *Obsession *continues to scare up success, holding strong at No. 3 domestically in its sixth weekend.

- Next weekend, *Toy Story 5 *will go head to head with a formidable new competitor at the box office: *Supergirl*.

The box office has more than a friend in *Toy Story 5* — it has a new king.

The highly anticipated fifth installment in the animated family film franchise put its competitors back in the box this weekend with an epic $160 million domestic premiere and $312 million around the world, per Rentrak.

Those figures represent an all-time high for the *Toy Story *franchise, which John Lasseter, Pete Docter, and Andrew Stanton co-created at Disney and Pixar in 1995. *Toy Story 4*, by comparison, opened to $121 million domestically in 2019. The fifth entry's U.S. opening also represents the best premiere of the year thus far, when extended four- and five-day opening weekends are excluded from consideration (*The Super Mario Galaxy Movie*, for example, earned $190 million in its five-day premiere, but $131 million from the traditional three-day opening).

Josh O'Connor in 'Disclosure Day'; Inde Navarrette in 'Obsession'; Renate Reinsve in 'Backrooms'.

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It's been weekend after weekend of box office jubilees. Steven Spielberg achieved his highest opening figures in a decade last weekend with the $93 million global premiere of *Disclosure Day*. The weekend before, Shawn and Marlon Wayans achieved their own franchise best when *Scary Movie *earned $105.5 million globally in its premiere. And the weekend before that, 21-year-old YouTube sensation Kane Parsons jolted the box office to new highs when his directorial debut, *Backrooms*, shattered multiple records with an $118 million global premiere take.

The 2026 box office, especially in the U.S., was off to a sluggish start in Q1, but as we turn the corner into the latter half of the year, things are looking bright — especially when you look back at the lows of the COVID-era slump.

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Each of the previously mentioned films that competed for the crown with *Toy Story 5 *this week are still holding strong in theaters at home and abroad.

*Disclosure Day *navigated around the sophomore-weekend slump by adding an additional $17 million domestically and $32.7 million globally. Those figures earned it the No. 2 spot on both leaderboards this weekend. At No. 3 on both is *Obsession*, another horror phenomenon from a phenomenally young YouTube creator, Curry Barker, who at 26, launched his directorial debut to astounding and enduring success.

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*Obsession *opened to $17 million domestically — an impressive sum for a film made on a sub-$1 million microbudget. But after six weeks, *Obsession *leads the pack in the running for 2026's biggest sleeper hit. The film earned an additional $14.2 million domestically, for an overall sum of $215.8 million, and scooped up $25 million globally.

*Backrooms *came in at No. 4 domestically with a $7.3 million week-4 take domestically, while *Scary Movie *ranked No. 5 on the same chart with a $6.7 million week-3 take.

It will take a lot to unseat *Toy Story 5 *from the top of the box office next weekend, as family films tend to exert robust staying power. But Craig Gillespie's *Supergirl** *is going to do its damndest.

The film was first announced way back in 2018, and after many twists and turns in development at D.C., star Milly Alcock is ready to soar into theaters with all the power of Krypton.

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