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Toy Story 5 Shatters Records, Continuing Steve Jobs' Pixar Legacy

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Toy Story 5 has achieved the highest-grossing opening weekend in the franchise's history, earning $312 million and surpassing its substantial production and marketing budget. This success continues the franchise's legacy, which has generated $16 billion for Disney since the first film's release. The article also highlights Steve Jobs' pivotal role in founding Pixar, detailing his $10 million investment in the company's computer animation division from Lucasfilm in 1986, which he later transformed into a leading animation studio. AI

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Toy Story 5 Shatters Records, Continuing Steve Jobs' Pixar Legacy

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez ·

    Steve Jobs became a billionaire thanks to a Pixar gamble. Now ‘Toy Story 5’ is breaking box office records thanks to that bet

    Before Jobs made Apple the most valuable company on Earth, he helped bring Pixar to life.

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