Toy Story 5 romped to the best opening weekend of the year, raking in $160 million in North America, industry estimates showed last week, a record for the much-loved Pixar franchise. The sequel, which debuted over Father’s Day weekend, features Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear and their gang of toys fighting for survival against competition from technology, particularly a tablet. “This is prime family moviegoing season and Toy Story is delivering,” said industry analyst David A. Gross. The movie will likely become the second-biggest animated movie opening of all time, behind Disney unit Pixar’s Incredibles 2, which made $182.7m in June 2018.

Toy Story 5 – which returns with Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack voicing key characters – opened on 4,425 screens across the United States and Canada over the weekend. Runner-up in the weekend box office take was the Stephen Spielberg-directed sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day, which debuted the previous weekend. With an ensemble cast led by Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, the action-packed Universal film follows an effort to reveal a decades-long cover-up of extraterrestrial visitations. It brought in an estimated $17m, lifting its total to $78.2 million, according to estimates. In third place was Focus Features’ indie horror hit Obsession, which took in another $14m in its sixth week out for a total domestic haul of $215.8m, data showed.