Pixar’s « Lightyear » rocketed to a $51 million domestic opening, the best performance of an animated feature since the pandemic began.
Pixar’s « Lightyear » rocketed to a $51 million domestic opening, the best performance of an animated feature since the pandemic began. Internationally, the Disney film tallied $34.6 million in ticket sales, bringing its global haul to $85.6 million. The animated film’s performance, while strong for a pandemic release, falls short of expectations. Box office analysts had foreseen « Lightyear » bringing in between $70 million and $85 million domestically. Expectations were high because the last two films in the Toy Story franchise both opened to more than $100 million in ticket sales, according to data from Comscore. « Toy Story 4 » in 2019 topped $120 million in its domestic debut and « Toy Story 3 » generated more than $110 million during its opening 2010.
« ‘Lightyear » had a great deal of potential on paper, but a number of factors resulted in this very rare box office misfire for a Pixar release », said Shawn Robbins, chief media analyst at BoxOffice.
