Contributor

Box Office Buzz: Toy Story 3 Tops 2010! [UPDATE]

July 11, 2010• Box Office News Toy Story 3

From the beginning, it was clear that Toy Story 3 would become the highest grossing Pixar film of all time.

In its fourth weekend, it seems as though Buzz and Woody only need a tiny push to reach their domestic goal. Pixar’s 11th landed the number four spot, and in doing so, narrowly missed Finding Nemo’s domestic gross of $339.7 million dollars. An addition of $21 million puts Pixar’s 11th at:

$340,200,000 $339,240,857

Declaring ‘victory’ this weekend was a bit tricky. See, the margin of error is pretty thin: a slightly lower weekend total set Toy Story 3 right behind Nemo at the box office.

With that said, it’ll undoubtedly pass the underwater epic by Monday. Pixar’s 11th has really been performing at the top of its game, especially with so many new releases including surprise hit, Despicable Me.

Here’s how the weekend breaks down. Friday brought in $6.4 million with a Sunday to match. But it was Saturday that really blew me away with a total of $8.9 million! 

Note: It should also be mentioned that Toy Story 3 has become the highest grossing domestic release of 2010, surpassing Alice in Wonderland.

Update: Oops! Sounds like we jumped the gun. Sunday was not the big day so we’ve modifed some of the language in this post. I’m sure Buzz and Woody surpassed Nemo today, but we’ll be more careful next time — promise!

Your predictions?

(Numbers via Box Office Mojo)

Last modified: July 11, 2010
← Previous Story
Another Look Inside Pixar!
→ Next Story
10th Annual Pixar Motorama!

6 Replies to “Box Office Buzz: Toy Story 3 Tops 2010! [UPDATE]”

  1. Anonymous says:
    July 11, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    Thrilling! Let’s hope it does just as well internationally.
    —Leirin

    Reply
  2. stehako says:
    July 11, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    I’m so glad it beat ‘The Last Airbender’ for the weekend and ‘Alice’ for the year!

    It’s still only above average as far as actual attendance goes.
    It will need $380.4 million to beat Toy Story 2
    To be the most-attended Pixar film it will need $448 million, beating ‘Finding Nemo’
    It’s got a long way to go yet, but I think there’s great potential.

    ‘Finding Nemo’ happens to be my favorite, so I’m actually fine if it stops right before that goal.

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says:
    July 11, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    I’m very happy to see the film doing so well. However it should be mentioned that with inflation and 3D ticket prices it is not as impressive as Nemo in the long run.

    I only wish it could dethrone the mediocre Shrek 2, but at $441 million, that just isn’t going to happen.

    Reply
  4. Rey says:
    July 12, 2010 at 1:12 am

    http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20100711-00000039-sanspo-ent

    This site says Walt Disney Japan is targeting US$100 million in movie sales.

    I think that’s a very low sales target. Ponyo in Japan made US$150 million and Avatar in Japan made US$160 million.

    Reply
  5. ArtJoe says:
    July 12, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    I want to see the film do as much business as possible, but I’m not greedy. As long as all involved make a hefty profit and continue to leave PIXAR the heck alone that is all I need. Glad the public can still reward great filmmaking as well as mediocre. Although The Lamp’s competitors are slowly learning about the power of story. It is an exciting time to be an animation fan!

    Reply
  6. uruseiranma says:
    July 13, 2010 at 10:34 am

    Ticket sales will wane come mid-to-late August, when word will most likely start circulating about the DVD/Blu-Ray releases.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Privacy Notice
The Pixar Planet Network uses cookies to help improve your experience. By using our website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Read more
Save & Close
Accept all
Decline all
Show details Hide details
Cookie declaration
About cookies
Performance
Targeting
Unclassified
Performance cookies are used to see how visitors use the website, eg. analytics cookies. Those cookies cannot be used to directly identify a certain visitor.
Cookie report
Name Domain Expiration Description
_ga .pixarplanet.com 2 years This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
Targeting cookies are used to identify visitors between different websites, eg. content partners, banner networks. Those cookies may be used by companies to build a profile of visitor interests or show relevant ads on other websites.
Cookie report
Name Domain Expiration Description
__gads .pixarplanet.com 1 year This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to do with the showing of adverts on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue.
IDE .doubleclick.net 1 year This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
DSID .doubleclick.net 1 hour This cookie is set to note your specific user identity. It contains a hashed/encrypted unique ID.
KTPCACOOKIE .pubmatic.com 1 day This cookie is generally provided by pubmatic.com and is used for advertising purposes.
mc .quantserve.com 1 year 1 month This cookie is usually provided by Quantserve to track anonymous information about how website visitors use the site.
KADUSERCOOKIE .pubmatic.com 3 months This cookie is generally provided by pubmatic.com and is used for advertising purposes.
CMID .casalemedia.com 1 year These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.
CMPS .casalemedia.com 3 months These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.
CMPRO .casalemedia.com 3 months These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.
na_tc .addthis.com 1 year 1 month Social Media sharing tracking cookie.
uid .addthis.com 1 year 1 month This cookie provides a uniquely assigned, machine-generated user ID and gathers data about activity on the website. This data may be sent to a 3rd party for analysis and reporting.
ouid .addthis.com 1 year 1 month Social Media sharing tracking cookie.
rlas3 .rlcdn.com 1 year This cookie is generally provided by rlcdn.com and is used for advertising purposes.
uuid .innovid.com 3 months This cookie is used to optimize ad relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites – this exchange of visitor data is normally provided by a third-party data-center or ad-exchange.
Unclassified cookies are cookies that do not belong to any other category or are in the process of categorization.
Cookie report
Name Domain Expiration Description
i .openx.net 1 year
_ga_X3MG8FKSZL .pixarplanet.com 2 years
d .quantserve.com 3 months
na_id .addthis.com 1 year 1 month
na_rn .dlx.addthis.com 1 month
na_sr .dlx.addthis.com 1 month
na_srp .dlx.addthis.com 1 minute
na_sc_e .dlx.addthis.com 1 month
pxrc .rlcdn.com 2 months
CMST .casalemedia.com 1 day
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Websites use cookies to help users navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. Cookies that are required for the website to operate properly are allowed to be set without your permission. All other cookies need to be approved before they can be set in the browser. You can change your consent to cookie usage at any time on our Privacy Policy page.
Cookies consent ID:
Cookie report created by Cookie-Script
×