Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear” blasted off with a respectable $5.2 million in Thursday previews. The film, a spinoff of the “Toy Story” franchise, looks at the fiction…
The film, a spinoff of the “Toy Story” franchise, looks at the fictional astronaut character who was in a movie the inspired the Buzz Lightyear action figure who enchanted Andy and who later became BFFs with Woody . But this Buzz Lightyear, much to, is voiced not by Tim Allen, whose dulcet pipes graced all four “Toy Story” flicks, but by the Star Command-ing cadences of one Chris Evans.
“Lightyear” is expected to launch to between $70 million to $80 million and will screen in 4,200 North American theaters. That should be a big enough number to secure first place at the, as well as all the attendant bragging rights that come with that perch. However, “Lightyear” is landing in an unusually crowded weekend at the box office.
“Lightyear” carries a hefty $200 million production budget, so it needs to resonate with family crowds. It’s also an important test of Pixar’s theatrical muscle. It’s the first Pixar movie to play on the big screen in more than two years. As COVID raged, Disney shipped three Pixar movies — “Soul,” “Luca” and “Turning Red” — to Disney+ in an effort to bolster the company’s newly launched streaming service. That movewith Pixar’s rank-and-file.
The Thursday results were an improvement on those of “Onward,” the last theatrical Pixar release, which earned $2 million in March 2020 , but they are a far cry from the $12 million in grosses that “Toy Story 4” raked in from previews in 2019. “Lightyear” is also notable in that it features the first same-sex kiss in a Disney animated film. That groundbreaking moment has
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