Experience Toy Story 5 at the movie theater with commentary from co-director and co-writer Kenna Harris 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.

Harris’ 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 the director walk through how the film was made, synced right to the screen, is exactly the kind of experience we built this for.”

Kenna Harris joined Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2016 as a storyboard artist, working on Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), Frozen 2 (2019), and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). They transitioned to Pixar, starting as a storyboard artist on Luca (2021), then wrote and directed the short film Ciao Alberto (2021). They associate executive produced Elemental (2023).

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

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