Toy Story 5 will begin streaming on Disney+ on September 23.
The Disney/Pixar feature opened on June 19 to a whopping $160 million, the best opening any movie has seen this year, the second-best opening ever for an animated film stateside behind Pixar’s own Incredibles 2 ($182.6M), and the third-best June has had following Universal’s 2015 Jurassic World ($208.8M) and Incredibles 2. The film has since passed the billion-dollar mark. It is the third Toy Story movie to cross $1 billion after 2010’s Toy Story 3.
Toy Story 5 is directed by Andrew Stanton and co-directed by Kenna Harris. Producers on the project are Lindsey Collins and Jessica Choi. The film was written by Stanton and Harris, from a story by Stanton.
The official synopsis reads: The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time it’s Toy meets Tech. Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, and the rest of the gang’s jobs are challenged when they come face-to-face with Lilypad, a brand-new tablet device that arrives with her own disruptive ideas about what is best for their kid, Bonnie. Will playtime ever be the same?
Elsewhere, Disney also today announced a new accompanying music video for Taylor Swift’s original song I Knew It, I Knew You from the Toy Story 5 soundtrack. The song is now available to watch on Disney+, Spotify and Apple Music. The single is performed by Taylor Swift and written and produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff.
