'Toy Story 5' In-Theater Director's Commentary Launching This Weekend

Experience Toy Story 5 at the movie theater with commentary from director and screenwriter Andrew Stanton thanks to TheaterEars.

Toy Story 5 In-Theater Director’s Commentary

TheaterEars usually allows movie-goers to hear a film in a different language but they launched synchronized theatrical director’s commentary tracks with Project Hail Mary earlier this year. The Mandalorian & Grogu followed and now Toy Story 5 will be the first animated film in the Director’s Experience lineup.

Stanton’s commentary will be available in the TheaterEars app beginning on Friday, July 3. To hear it in time with the film, make sure to download the free app and bring your headphones to the theater. Once inside, select Toy Story 5, your movie theater, and showtime. The app will listen to the film’s audio to sync the commentary track.

“Toy Story is the franchise that made millions of us fall in love with the movies, so there’s no
better film to bring the Director’s Experience into animation for the first time,” said Dan Mangru, CEO of TheaterEars. “Sitting in a theater and hearing Andrew Stanton walk through how the film was made, synced right to the screen, is exactly the kind of experience we built this for.”

“Every frame of Toy Story 5 holds a decision the audience never sees. Getting to talk through
those choices while people are watching the movie in a theater — that’s a way of sharing the
work I’ve never had before, and I think fans are going to love hearing where these moments came from,” Stanton said.

Stanton joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1990 as their second animator and ninth employee. He co-wrote and directed Finding Nemo, WALL-E, and Finding Dory; co-wrote and executive produced Toy Story 4; and has worked on most Pixar projects over the years in some capacity.

Toy Story 5 was the #1 movie in the world two weeks in a row. It’s pulled over $600 million globally so far.