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THE DISNEY/PIXAR HIT HAS BEST MONDAY OF 2026 AND WILL LIKELY SOAR ABOVE 'SUPERGIRL' AT THIS WEEKEND'S BOX OFFICE |
Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 5 had a great Monday with $17.3M at the domestic box office. So great that it’s the best Monday we’ve seen so far at the 2026 box office, ahead of Super Mario Galaxy Movie's first Monday, April 6, which did $16.8M.
Toy Story 5 was also ahead of Disney/Lucasfilm’s Memorial Day Monday for Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu, which did $16.4M. The running four-day cume on the Andrew Stanton-directed animated fifth-quel is $177M in U.S./Canada.
This weekend, there’s no question about it: Toy Story 5 will be No. 1 in its second frame, towering above Warner Bros/DC Studio’s Supergirl, which will open to around $50M. >>>How High Will It Go?
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Deadline Exclusives & Originals
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Gillespie Eyes 'Homewreckers' - Ahead of the release of his new DC Studios film, Supergirl, Craig Gillespie has entered talks to direct Glen Powell in Homewreckers, a twisty, erotic sci-fi thriller for Legendary. >>>Powell To Produce
Early Renewal - Prime Video’s Invincible has been renewed for a sixth season, with the fifth one still months from its debut. The fourth season of Robert Kirkman’s hit graphic novel adaptation starring JK Simmons, Sandra Oh and Steven Yeun was the most-watched to date, according to Kirkman’s Invincible producer Skybound Entertainment, hitting the top 10 in more than 50 territories. >>>Annecy Teasers
Shifting To TV? - Channel 4 and See-Saw Films are developing a TV series adaptation of Benedict Lombe’s history-making play Shifters, which is about to transfer to A24’s Cherry Lane Theatre and counts Idris Elba and Little Simz as admirers. >>>London Play Starred 'Supacell’s Tosin Cole
BBC Hugs YouTube Tighter - The BBC's experimentation on YouTube is set to increase, as the British broadcaster tests streaming its news network on the Google-owned video service. Deadline understands that the BBC is planning to make the 24-hour rolling news channel available on YouTube in select countries outside of the UK. >>>Australia First
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Nearly a century after the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series was published, Netflix is revisiting the story of a pioneering family that struck out to make a new life for itself and headed west in the 1870s.
Season 1 of the reimagining, helmed by showrunner, executive producer and writer Rebecca Sonnenshine, arrives on Netflix on July 9.
Deadline was on the ground at the twelfth annual Bentonville Film Festival to moderate the inaugural Book to Screen panel Sunday, June 21, which featured Sonnenshine and actresses Crosby Fitzgerald, who portrays Caroline “Ma” Ingalls and Alyssa Wapanatǎhk, who plays White Sun, an Osage woman and mother, in the series. The first episode of eight was screened ahead of the discussion. >>>Read The Interview
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Exclusive
As he awaits the final season launch of his Netflix YA juggernaut Outer Banks, Chase Stokes has closed a deal to join Dennis Quaid in Thunder Road, AMC‘s NASCAR drama. Also on the track will be an old hand, Michael Rooker, who starred alongside Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's NASCAR classic, Days of Thunder.
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Millie Brady (Surface) and Pilou Asbaek (Foundation) have joined the Apple TV series from Legendary’s Monsterverse as series regulars. They join the previously announced lead, Wyatt Russell, who returns as Young Lee Shaw, a character that originated in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
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Pinnacle Pictures’ Panoramic Pictures is rolling cameras on the action thriller Panic Button starring Alec Baldwin, Emmy winner Jeremy Piven, God’s Not Dead franchise actor David A. R. White and Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games).
Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy) has joined Prime Video's Cross for Season 3, in a reunion with showrunner Ben Watkins, following their collaboration on Hand of God.
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Sean Kaufman is in negotiations to star opposite Matt Damon in the untitled event pic from filmmaking duo Daniels at Universal. Daniels, aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, will write and direct.
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MORE NEWS
🦚 Peacock has opted not to renew its 1970s espionage thriller Ponies, starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, for a second season.
🏢 As part of a wide-ranging conversation with Deadline (the first part of which was highlighted Tuesday in this newsletter), Not Suitable For Work creator Mindy Kaling looked back on its nine-episode first season. She broke down the main developments in the finale, including cliffhangers for each of the main characters.
💰 Mari, the investment firm founded last year by Ari Emanuel, is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire West End and Broadway theater giant ATG Entertainment for £4.5B ($6B). The Financial Times reported that Mari is in exclusive talks with ATG private equity backer Providence about a deal that could be sealed within weeks.
🎭 New Broadway revivals of The Sound of Music and Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men will be staged by Lincoln Center Theater for its 2026-2027 season, with the musical to star Jasmine Amy Rogers (Boop!) and the Sorkin play starring Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth.
🚌 Legendary Entertainment and Scholastic Entertainment are teaming to develop a live-action feature adaptation of children’s book series The Magic School Bus, with Rob Letterman (Detective Pikachu) aboard to write the treatment and direct. Elizabeth Banks is set both to produce and play the key role of teacher Ms. Frizzle.
⚖️ Over a month before a second potentially seminal social media trial is set to start in California, YouTube has reached a deal to get out of having to show up in court. The Florida-based teen’s trial against the techlords behind Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and SNAP is scheduled to start in downtown L.A. on July 27.
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ON THE RADAR
Thu - Great American State fair begins in D.C.; U.S. vs. Turkey in World Cup
Sun - BET Awards; Bill Maher receives Mark Twain Award
Mon - Wimbledon starts
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Mother, Daughter & 'Daughtry' - Lea Thompson and daughter Zoey Deutch at Sony Pictures Classics' Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass L.A. premiere.
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