Editing Toy Story (section)

=== Box office ===
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| quote = Yes, we worry about what the critics say. Yes, we worry about what the opening box office is going to be. Yes, we worry about what the final box office is going to be. But really, the whole point of why we do what we do is to entertain our audiences. The greatest joy I get as a filmmaker is to slip into an audience for one of our movies anonymously and watch people watch our film. Because people are 100 percent honest when they're watching a movie. And to see the joy on people's faces, to see people really get into our films... to me is the greatest reward I could get.
| source = —John Lasseter, reflecting on the impact of the film{{sfn|Paik|2007|p=104}}
}}Before the film's release, executive producer and [[Apple Inc.]] co-founder [[Steve Jobs]] stated "If ''Toy Story'' is a modest hit—say $75&nbsp;million at the box office, we'll [Pixar and Disney] both break even. If it gets $100&nbsp;million, we'll both make money. But if it's a real blockbuster and earns $200&nbsp;million or so at the box office, we'll make good money, and Disney will make a lot of money." Upon its release on November 22, 1995, ''Toy Story'' managed to gross more than $350&nbsp;million worldwide.<ref name="CNN110animators">{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/09/18/206099/index.htm |work=CNN|title=Steve Jobs' Amazing Movie Adventure Disney Is Betting on Computerdom's Ex-Boy Wonder To Deliver This Year's Animated Christmas Blockbuster. Can He Do For Hollywood What He Did For Silicon Valley? |first=Brent |last=Schlender |date=September 18, 1995|access-date=March 12, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604153134/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/09/18/206099/index.htm|archive-date=June 4, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Disney chairman [[Michael Eisner]] stated "I don't think either side thought ''Toy Story'' would turn out as well as it has. The technology is brilliant, the casting is inspired, and I think the story will touch a nerve. Believe me, when we first agreed to work together, we never thought their first movie would be our 1995 holiday feature, or that they could go public on the strength of it."<ref name="CNN110animators" />

The film's first five days of domestic release (on [[Thanksgiving]] weekend) earned it $39.1 million.<ref name="BOXMOJODaily">{{cite web |url=http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=toystory.htm |title=Toy Story Daily Box Office |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=March 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130231408/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=toystory.htm|archive-date=January 30, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Moreover, ''Toy Story'' earned a total of $158.6 million from ticket sales combined with the five-day Wednesday opening.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98572597/toy-story-fuels-158m-record-weekend/ |title='Toy Story' fuels $158M record weekend |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328174105/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98572597/toy-story-fuels-158m-record-weekend/ |newspaper=[[Daily Record (Morristown)|Daily Record]] |page=13 |date=November 28, 1995 |access-date=March 28, 2022 |archive-date=March 28, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> It would go on to hold this record until ''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]'' took it the next year.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98541630/independence-day-blows-away-box-office/ |title=Independence Day blows away box-office records |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328165505/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98541630/independence-day-blows-away-box-office/ |newspaper=[[The Ottawa Citizen]] |page=38 |date=July 10, 1996 |access-date=March 28, 2022 |archive-date=March 28, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> The film placed first in the weekend's box office with $29.1&nbsp;million<ref name="BOXMOJO" /> and maintained the number-one position at the domestic box office for the next two weekends. It was displaced by ''[[Jumanji]]'' in its fourth weekend, but still managed to outgross ''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]'' and ''[[Sabrina (1995 film)|Sabrina]]'' with $10.9 million.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122247607/toy-story-jumanji-duel-for-box/ |title='Toy Story,' 'Jumanji' duel for box office lead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404063815/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122247607/toy-story-jumanji-duel-for-box/ |date=December 19, 1995 |access-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |page=19 |publisher=[[The Sheboygan Press]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> ''Toy Story'' went on to become the highest-grossing domestic film of 1995, beating ''[[Batman Forever]]'', ''[[Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13]]'' (also starring Tom Hanks), ''[[Pocahontas (1995 film)|Pocahontas]]'', ''[[Casper (film)|Casper]]'', ''[[Waterworld]]'', ''[[GoldenEye]]'', and other films.<ref name="BOXMOJO1995Best">{{cite web |url=http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1995&p=.htm |title=1995 Domestic Grosses |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=March 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510202501/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1995&p=.htm|archive-date=May 10, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> At the time of its release, it was the third-highest-grossing animated film of all time, after ''[[The Lion King]]'' (1994) and ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' (1992).<ref name="BizWeekBOX">{{cite news |last1=Burrows |first1=Peter |last2=Grover |first2=Ronald |title=Steve Jobs, Movie Mogul |work=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |date=November 23, 1998 |url=http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1998/b3605001.arc.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613233813/http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1998/b3605001.arc.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 13, 2011 |access-date=March 11, 2009}}</ref> ''Toy Story'' became the [[1995 in film|second-highest-grossing film of 1995]], just $3 million behind ''[[Die Hard with a Vengeance]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://urbanmatter.com/a-look-back-at-the-year-1995-in-film-history/|title=A Look Back at the Year 1995 in Film History|date=November 25, 2020|access-date=February 3, 2022|archive-date=February 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203182026/https://urbanmatter.com/a-look-back-at-the-year-1995-in-film-history/|url-status=live}}</ref> When not considering inflation, ''Toy Story'' is number 96 on the list of the highest-grossing domestic films of all time.<ref name="BOXMOJO96Domestic">{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic.htm |title=Domestic Grosses #1–100 |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=March 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803190039/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic.htm|archive-date=August 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The film had gross receipts of $223.2&nbsp;million in the U.S. and Canada and $171.2&nbsp;million in international markets from its original 1995 release and three re-releases for a total of $394.4&nbsp;million worldwide.<ref name="BOXMOJO" /> At the time of its release, the film ranked as the 17th-highest-grossing film (unadjusted) domestically and the 21st-highest-grossing film worldwide.