With “Toy Story 4,” “Child’s Play,” “Men in Black: International” and “Dark Phoenix,” June has been surprisingly full of new entries in old franchises — all of those movies are part of movie franchises that began in 2000 or earlier. Even by the sequel-heavy standards of summer, that’s pretty crazy!
And while “Dark Phoenix” and the new “Men in Black” have been major disappointments at the box office, “Toy Story 4” didn’t suffer quite so dramatic a fate. What’s craziest about that fact is that “Toy Story” is the oldest of those three franchises, having kicked off with the original film back in 1995 — two years before the first “Men in Black” and five years before the first “X-Men” movie.