Toy Story 3 wrecked all our hearts—and made a fortune doing it
looks back at the highest grossing movie in America from every year since 1960. In tracing the evolution of blockbuster cinema, maybe we can answer a question Hollywood has been asking itself for more than a century: What do people want to see? Advertisement I must’ve known that all the toys weren’t about to die. I had to know. This was a G-rated kids’ movie, the third entry in a beloved franchise. Movies like that generally don’t end with their heroes being reduced to puddles of toxic-smelling goo. And yet Toy Story 3 got me. Sitting in the theater, holding a toddler who didn’t y...