Toy Story 5 Sets Disney+ Release Date After Becoming the Highest-Grossing Movie in the Franchise

Toy Story 5 is officially coming to Disney+ on September 23. The streaming release date is just over four months after the film’s initial release in theaters, a standard timeline for Pixar movies. A spread of 4K Blu-rays, including a highly sought after 4K steelbook, will be released the day before, on September 22. The movie is also already available to rent or purchase digitally from PVOD platforms. A new trailer was released in anticipation of the Disney+ arrival that largely features an army of Buzz Lightyears. The streaming release announcement is also accompanied by a new music video for the piano version of the Taylor Swift song featured in the movie, “I Knew It, I Knew You," now available on Spotify, Apple Music, and Disney+. Toy Story 5 grossed just over $1.1 billion worldwide with a reported budget of $250 million, surpassing the box office performance of the previous sequel, Toy Story 4. The Toy Story franchise as a whole has now grossed over $3.3 billion, and only slightly trails behind Universal's Despicable Me as the second highest-grossing animated media franchise of all time. The latest Pixar sequel introduces a new villain, LilyPad, tackling the topic of technology