The propulsive early run of Toy Story 5 and muscular holdover business for Obsession and Backrooms drove the highest-grossing post-pandemic June in North America, earning $1.07bn.
Rentrak reported the month was up 27% on the year-ago period when all releases grossed $844.7m. Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 5 led June on $318.9m. Seven years ago in the $1.1bn June, Toy Story 4 was the top film of the month on $238.7m.
The other post-pandemic $1bn June came in 2013 when box office squeaked past the milestone and Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel led the month on $248.6m.
Toy Story 5’s $318.9m represented the lion’s share of the film’s running total of $365.7m haul as of July 6. The latest entry in the 31-year animation franchise arrived over the June 19-21 weekend on $159.7m for the biggest debut of the year to date.
The tentpole earned $30.3m in its second session and as it heads deeper into school holidays Toy Story 5 is eying $400m, not to mention the top two final grosses in the franchise of $434m by Toy Story 4 in 2019 and $415m by Toy Story 3 in 2010.
Scary Movie earned $104.5m for Paramount after a franchise-best $54.3m bow over the June 3-5 weekend. The feature reboot that brought back the horror parody’s creators and stars the Wayans brothers after a 25-year absence due to disagreements proved to be a solid result, although it will not surpass the 2000 original’s $157m final score, nor the $110m set by Scary Movie 3 in 2010.
YouTube creators
YouTube creators have been the story of the summer so far and even though Curry Barker’s 2025 TIFF sensation Obsession and Kane Parson’s Backrooms both launched in May, they have pulled off exceptional holds to ensure that it was not just Toy Story 5 and Scary Movie doing the heavy lifting.
Obsession opened on May 15 through Focus Features and entered June on $105.8m. By that stage, in its fourth weekend, it declined by 7.3% and would conjure up drops in the 20th percentile for the rest of the month, earning $132m of its current $245m North American tally.
Backrooms opened on May 29-31 via A24 and stood at $81.4m come June. It earned $104.4m in the month, and has reached $190.5m by July 1. Exceptional staying power helped June to scale the heights as film-goers were excited be part of a phenomenon.
Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day with Emily Hunt and Josh O’Connor debuted over June 12-14 and amassed $96.9m by July, helping the sci-fi reach $105.1m. While this was not a vintage Spielberg release in terms of hard dollars, it is the veteran’s 16th $100m-plus earner.
Warner Bros/DC Studios’ Supergirl was a misfire, albeit in fairness it had a short runway into July after debuting over the June 26-28 session on $37.1m. Despite standing to lose anywhere from $80m to $120m, the DC hierarchy has insisted it was merely one piece of the rebooted studio’s strategy.
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