‘Toy Story 5’ With Near $90M Second Frame Will Have More Friends Than ‘Supergirl’ At Weekend B.O. – Preview

There’s a snake in Supergirl‘s boot, and it’s the second weekend of Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 5.

The $170M DC Studios feature, the second production under the James Gunn- and Peter Safran-run Warner Bros comic book division after last summer’s Superman ($125M domestic opening), is expected to open in the upper $40Ms at 3,600 theaters stateside per presales, though tracking has had it of late in the $50M+ vicinity.

That start would be around such previous-regime DC greenlights as 2023’s The Flash ($55M U.S., which was tormented by tabloid reports of its star Ezra Miller long before opening), though above such lackluster titles as Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom ($27.4M U.S. opening in 2023) and Shazam: Fury of the Gods ($30.1M U.S., also 2023). Overseas estimates for the Craig Gillespie-directed feature take of Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s graphic novel Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, are low-$40Ms, we hear from sources; the pic is opening everywhere except for Belgium and France. Hence, the global opening range is between $80M-$90M+. Previews in North America start at 3 p.m. Thursday. No critical Rotten Tomatoes score yet.

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First choice is best with women under 25 but low for all audiences, half of that for Thunderbolts*, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and Wonder Woman.

Toy Story 5, meanwhile, passed $200M at the domestic B.O. on Tuesday. The Andrew Stanton-directed fifthquel is eyeing a second frame in North America between $88M-$96M, -40% to -45% after posting the best domestic opening of the year ($159.6M 3-day), the best Monday year to date with $17.3M and a massive $23.7M Tuesday. Disney/Pixar’s 2024 summer smash Inside Out 2 went on to post the best second weekend for an animated film at $101.2M, -34% after opening to $154.2M at the domestic B.O.

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Paramount has Jackass: Best and Last, which was a last-minute add to the summer schedule, though evidence of CEO David Ellison’s commitment to provide movies for theaters. Booked at 2,800 theaters, the Jeff Tremaine-directed reality prank comedy is eyeing around $10M in North America and another $3M from offshore launches in 19 markets including Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom (meaning a $13M WW debut all-in). Previews begin at 2 p.m. Thursday, but there’s a special fan event at 7PM.

The final Jackass film stars Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man (Jason Acuña), Dave England, Danger Ehren (Ehren McGhehey), Preston Lacy, Rachel Wolfson, Jasper, Dark Shark (Compston Wilson), Poopies (Sean McInerney) and Zach Holmes. The previous Jackass movie, Jackass Forever, opened to a strong $23.1M domestic back in 2022, arriving in cinemas 12 years after the previous installment, 2010’s Jackass 3D, which owns the franchise opening record at $50.3M. Jackass Forever ended its run at $57.7M in U.S./Canada, $80.5M WW, also off a thrifty $10M production cost. The four core Jackass movies combined have minted more than $416M around the world.

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