Toy Story 5 opens in cinemas on Friday, June 19, 2026. Disney and Pixar confirmed the date well ahead of release, alongside a marketing push built around a final trailer drop.
The film marks the franchise's fifth theatrical entry and the first since Toy Story 4 in 2019, extending a series that began in 1995 as Pixar's debut feature.
Andrew Stanton directs, co-directed by McKenna Harris, with Tom Hanks and Tim Allen returning as Woody and Buzz Lightyear. Randy Newman returns to score his fifth Toy Story feature. The plot introduces Lilypad, a new tablet device that enters Bonnie's household with its own ideas about what she needs, putting the toys in direct competition with a screen for their kid's attention.
The premise gives Pixar a genuinely current angle rather than repeating the toy-shelf jealousy of earlier films: this is a conflict about attention, screen time and what a child actually needs from play, filtered through characters audiences have followed for three decades. Hanks and Allen returning after seven years carries its own weight for a series built on long-term audience relationships.
Confirmed: the June 19, 2026 release date, the returning voice cast of Hanks and Allen, Stanton directing with Harris co-directing, Newman's score, and the Lilypad tablet-antagonist premise. Unknown ahead of release: how the film resolves the toys' conflict with Lilypad, and how critics will assess it against the emotionally final-feeling ending of Toy Story 4.
