Synopsis
A sci-fi action adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy, “Lightyear” follows the legendary Space Ranger after he’s marooned on a hostile planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth alongside his commander and their crew. As Buzz tries to find a way back home through space and time, he’s joined by a group of ambitious recruits and his charming robot companion cat, Sox. Complicating matters and threatening the mission is the arrival of Zurg, an imposing presence with an army of ruthless robots and a mysterious agenda.
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Movie Details
| Production Budget: | $200,000,000 |
| Hong Kong Releases: |
June 16th, 2022 (Wide), released as Lightyear (光年正傳) |
| Video Release: |
August 3rd, 2022 by Disney+ |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG for action/peril.
(Rating bulletin 2731 (cert #53706), 5/11/2022) |
| Running Time: |
110 minutes |
| Franchise: |
Toy Story |
| Keywords: |
Family Adventure, Set in Outer Space, Prequel, Origin Story |
| Source: | Spin-Off |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Production Method: | Digital Animation |
| Creative Type: | Kids Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: |
Walt Disney Pictures, Disney-Pixar |
| Production Countries: |
United States |
| Languages: |
English |
July 15th, 2022
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This is another busy week at the box office, with four new movies opening nationwide and two films that each topped $100 million on opening weekend going into their second and third weeks in theaters. There’s not much doubt which film will top the chart (spoiler alert: it’s Thor: Love and Thunder), but our model has been working overtime to compile a predicted top ten.
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June 24th, 2022
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A remarkable pile-up of films will top the box office chart this weekend, with five of them likely to earn more than $20 million over three days, and three in with a shot at coming out top. If it does happen, this would be the seventh time five films have earned over $20 million in a weekend. Life of Pi holds the record for the high-grossing fifth-placed film with $22.45 million over the weekend of November 23, 2012. That record looks in danger this weekend. But which of Elvis, Jurassic World: Dominion and Top Gun: Maverick does our model think will win the weekend? Read on to find out.
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June 17th, 2022
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After a painful hiatus from theaters since Onward debuted in March, 2020, Pixar returns in full force this weekend with an exclusive theatrical release for Lightyear. Although its $5,200,000 in previews spread between Wednesday and Thursday nights is well short of infinity and beyond, the animated adventure should top the chart this weekend, in spite of strong competition from Jurassic World: Dominion and Top Gun: Maverick.
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June 15th, 2022
Pixar’s animated adventure, with the voice of Chris Evans opens exclusively in theaters on Friday, June 17 ... Full Movie Details.
A sci-fi action adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy, “Lightyear” follows the legendary Space Ranger after he’s marooned on a hostile planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth alongside his commander and their crew. As Buzz tries to find a way back home through space and time, he’s joined by a group of ambitious recruits and his charming robot companion cat, Sox. Complicating matters and threatening the mission is the arrival of Zurg, an imposing presence with an army of ruthless robots and a mysterious agenda.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2022/06/17 |
- |
$711,138 |
|
0 |
|
$711,138 |
1 |
| 2022/06/24 |
- |
$355,237 |
-50% |
0 |
|
$1,224,159 |
2 |
| 2022/07/01 |
- |
$193,288 |
-46% |
0 |
|
$1,510,582 |
3 |
| 2022/07/08 |
- |
$32,977 |
-83% |
0 |
|
$1,561,967 |
4 |
| 2022/07/15 |
- |
$16,160 |
-51% |
0 |
|
$1,588,108 |
5 |
| 2022/07/22 |
- |
$5,153 |
-68% |
0 |
|
$1,599,952 |
6 |
| 2022/07/29 |
- |
$2,415 |
-53% |
0 |
|
$1,603,880 |
7 |
| 2022/08/05 |
- |
$6,303 |
+161% |
0 |
|
$1,612,800 |
8 |
| 2022/08/12 |
- |
$1,448 |
-77% |
0 |
|
$1,615,912 |
9 |
| 2022/08/19 |
- |
$885 |
-39% |
0 |
|
$1,617,350 |
10 |
| 2022/08/26 |
- |
$539 |
-39% |
0 |
|
$1,619,172 |
11 |
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Production and Technical Credits
The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.
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