the original toy story came out in north american theatres on november 19, 1995.
when did the original toy story come out in north american theatres?
november 19, 1995
before the film's release, executive producer and apple inc. co-founder steve jobs stated "if "toy story" is a modest hit—say $75 million at the box office, we'll [pixar and disney] both break even. if it gets $100 million, we'll both make money. but if it's a real blockbuster and earns $200 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 million worldwide. 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." the film's first five days of domestic release (on thanksgiving weekend) earned it $39,071,176. the film placed first in the weekend's box office with $29.1 million and maintained the number-one position at the domestic box office for the next two weekends. "toy story" became the highest-grossing domestic film of 1995, beating "batman forever", "apollo 13" (also starring tom hanks), "pocahontas", "casper", "waterworld", and "goldeneye". 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). when not considering inflation, "toy story" is number 96 on the list of the highest-grossing domestic films of all time. the film had gross receipts of $191.8 million in the u.s. and canada and $181.8 million in international markets for a total of $373.6 million worldwide. at the time of its release, the film ranked as the 17th-highest-grossing film (unadjusted) domestically and the 21st-highest-grossing film worldwide.
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the film was released for the first time on dvd on october 17, 2000, in a two-pack with its first sequel "toy story 2". the same day, a 3-disc "ultimate toy box" set was released, featuring "toy story", "toy story 2", and a third disc of bonus materials with toy story in a 35 mm widescreen print and toy story 2 only being in fullscreen. the twin-pack release was later released individually on march 20, 2001 with the film available in both widescreen and fullscreen. the dvd-pack, u.t.b. set and the original dvd use the 35 mm print of the film to create the copies, rather than using the original files to encode the movie directly to video. the dvd two-pack, the ultimate toy box set, the gold classic collection vhs and dvd, and the original dvd were all put in the disney vault on may 1, 2003. on september 6, 2005, a 2-disc "10th anniversary edition" was released featuring much of the bonus material from the "ultimate toy box", including a retrospective special with john lasseter, a home theater mix, as well as a new digital widescreen picture with the 35 mm fullscreen version being retained. this dvd went back in the disney vault on january 31, 2009 along with "toy story 2". the 10th anniversary release was the last version of "toy story" to be released before taken out of the disney vault lineup along with "toy story 2". also on september 6, 2005, a umd of "toy story" featuring some deleted scenes, a filmmakers' reflect and a new "legacy of toy story" was released for the sony playstation portable.
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