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The golden animation studio’s 11th feature, and the third installment in its only franchise so far, will ring up a weekend gross of $109 million in North American theaters, judging by early studio estimates. That’s the best beginning for a Pixar feature, the highest opening ever for a G-rated movie and — pending the announcement of actual numbers tomorrow, instead of today’s estimate — the top June release. [(See TIME’s photos: A brief history of Pixar)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1993637,00.html) Saturating the continent by playing on about 7,700 screens at 4,028 locations (according to Box Office Mojo’s Brandon Gray), the movie amassed other celestial stats: it’s the second highest opening for an animated feature, behind _Shrek the Third_, and the fourth biggest for a film released by Disney, after the two _Pirates of the Caribbean_ sequels and _Alice in Wonderland_. If the $109 million holds, _TS3_ will have secured the tenth largest opening weekend in movie history. And yet — considering the popularity of the _Toy Story_ brand, and that a film greeted by critical hosannas and an enraptured A rating from CinemaScore’s poll of exiting moviegoers — the _TS3_ total was a bit less than fabulous. First of all, if tomorrow’s final tally is even a million dollars lower, the picture’s rank in all-time opening weekends could slip to 13th, since the second _Transformers_, the ultimate _Star Wars_ episode and _Shrek 2_ all had opening weekends of at least $108 million. And whatever _TS3_‘s official three-day gross, it will have sold fewer tickets than the older films, since ticket prices have risen and the Pixar picture earned 60% of its take from the more expensive 3-D venues. [(See TIME’s top 10 movie sidekicks)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1997697%5F1997691%5F1997512,00.html) \[**MONDAY UPDATE:** The final amount for the _Toy Story 3_ weekend, announced this afternoon, was $110.3 million, or about 1% higher than Disney’s Sunday forecast. So it’s official: the Pixar threequel registered the 10th highest-grossing opening weekend in movie history. That record should hold for a full two weeks — until the debut of _The Twilight Saga: Eclipse_.\] Further, the film’s $37 million earnings on Saturday were $4 million below its Friday gross. Animated features usually accelerate the second day, with parents taking their kids to a Saturday matinee, and the first 10 Pixar films averaged a sturdy 26% jump from opening day to the one after. Only one previous Pixar feature saw its business drop: _WALL-E_. (No, I wouldn’t have guessed that one either.) The _TS3_ dip can be attributed to $4 million the film registered at Thursday-midnight shows, suggesting that it earned as much during the regular Friday engagements as on Saturday. But even that would mean the numbers flat-lined when they should have swelled. Pixar films usually have long legs; whereas most other blockbusters earn 30-45% of their total gross in the first three days, the figure for Pixar pictures is usually 20-27%. And since most of the studio’s features amass about 60% of their final take from foreign markets, nobody’s going broke with Woody, Buzz and their friends. _TS3_ should continue to entertain audiences throughout the summer, if not at record rates. You can expect the grosses to go to infinity, but not beyond. One reason _TS3_ didn’t quite go stratospheric is that the two big releases from last week held on well. _The Karate Kid_, which filched part of the school-age audience from Pixar, fell a respectable 48%, to $29 million; and _The A-Team_ sagged 46%, to $13.8 million. Among May holdovers, _Shrek Forever After_ passed $300 million in domestic revenue, while _Robin Hood_ made it to $100 million. (It’s earned nearly twice that abroad.) And after six months in theaters, _Avatar_ — remember that? — should crawl to the $750 million mark by month’s end. The other wide-release debut, _Jonah Hex_, was cursed with a $5.1 million weekend. _Raavan_, Mani Ratnam’s Indian musical drama starring Bollywood dream couple Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, took in a decent $551,000 at 199 venues, most of them catering to the Desi diaspora. _I Am Love_, the swoony Italian romance starring queen-of-the-indies Tilda Swinton, earned $125,000 at eight theaters. But the hot opening for specialty films, with $180,300 in just four theaters, was _Cyrus_, starring John C. Reilly and Jonah Hill. That tandem suggests a Judd Apatow comedy, but this little nasty from mumblecore auteurs Jay and Mark Duplass is much darker and weirder. The film’s rollout over the next few weeks will tell if the Duplass brothers can swim in the mainstream even as they boldly pollute it. Here are the Sunday estimates of the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Toy Story 3_, $109 million, first weekend 2\. _The Karate Kid_, $29 million; $106.3 million, second week 3\. _The A-Team_, $13.8 million; $49.8 million, second week 4\. _Get Him to the Greek_, $6.1 million; $47.9 million, third week 5\. _Shrek Forever After_, $5.5 million; $223 million, fifth week 6\. _Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time_, $5.3 million; $80.5 million, fourth week 7\. _Killers_, $5.1 million; $39.4 million, third week 8\. _Jonah Hex_, $5.1 million, first weekend 9\. _Iron Man 2_, $2.65 million; $304.8 million, seventh week 10\. _Marmaduke_, $2.65 million; $27.9 million, third week ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910932/toy-story-3-box-office-great-but-not-that-great/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910932/toy-story-3-box-office-great-but-not-that-great/"},"headline":"Toy Story 3 Box Office: Great But Not That Great","datePublished":"2010-06-20T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:16:38.036Z","description":"After a month in the box-office doldrums, movie executives and exhibitors suddenly feel toy-rific. 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