Friday, July 17, 2026

Box Office: “Lightyear” Opens to 60% Lower Ticket Sales in Previews Than Last “Toy Story”

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Three years ago, “Toy Story 4” had a preview night of $12 million.

Last night, “Lightyear,” the prequel to the four Toy Story movies, arrived in previews. It scored $5 million, 60% off from the last outing.

Hey, in this environment, $5 million ain’t bad. Good word of mouth may propel “Lightyear” to a terrific weekend. But as with most of these sequels, prequels, and bagels, by the fifth go round even the most loyal fans are ready for new ideas.c

If “Lightyear” is even a modest success, there will be two more of them. That’s a given. Listen, if Shakespeare were alive we’d be getting movies about various members of the Capulet family, and Rosencrants and Guildenstern’s Excellent Adventure.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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