New Delhi, June 22 -- Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios' Toy Story 5 shattered already enormous expectations for its opening weekend, becoming the biggest movie debut of the year so far and notching the biggest opening for the five-part franchise.

The latest installment of the animated feature reached an estimated $160 million in domestic box office sales through Sunday and another $152.0 million internationally, delivering an estimated $312.0 million weekend worldwide, according to Rentrak.

Hollywood is tracking its one of its best summers in years, according to Rentrak's head of marketplace trends Paul Dergarabedian. Toy Story 5 "is yet another building block" for only the second $4 billion summer domestically since 2019, follow...