Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack brought Pixar’s Toy Story 5 to Leicester Square for its UK launch, the first stop on the film’s global tour.
Tom Hanks, Woody’s voice since 1995, led the cast at the UK premiere of Toy Story 5 at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Thursday 28 May 2026. It was the first stop on the film’s global tour.
Born in Concord, California, in 1956, Hanks spent three years with the Great Lakes Theater Festival. Splash gave him his first leading film role in 1984.
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in consecutive years, for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Pixar’s first Toy Story was the first feature film animated entirely by computer.
The new film is set two years after the fourth. Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Jessie meet Lilypad, a tablet computer who becomes the new favourite of their owner, Bonnie. She arrives with her own ideas about what is best for a child.
Tim Allen and Joan Cusack joined Hanks, with Greta Lee, who voices Lilypad. The director Andrew Stanton co-wrote the original Toy Story and directed Finding Nemo and WALL-E, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Randy Newman wrote the score, and the film reached British cinemas on 19 June.