{"id":202113,"date":"2025-12-24T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202113\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:20:07","slug":"disney-crosses-6-billion-at-global-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202113\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Crosses $6 Billion at Global Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAll hail the Magic Kingdom. Disney<\/a> notched a major box office milestone, surpassing $6 billion in global ticket sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is Disney\u2019s fifth time crossing the $6 billion benchmark \u2014 and first since COVID \u2014 having previously achieved these box office heights in 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. No other studio has managed to reach $6 billion since 2015. Underscoring the significance of Disney\u2019s feat is the reality that the overall box office hasn\u2019t regained its strength since the pandemic-induced reset, with ticket sales still lagging around 20% behind the before times.<\/p>\n

\n\tThanks to two billion-dollar behemoths, May\u2019s \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d ($1.03 billion) and November\u2019s \u201cZootopia 2<\/a>\u201d ($1.3 billion and counting) as well as James Cameron\u2019s juggernaut \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d ($450 million after a week of release) and three Marvel sequels, the studio has earned $2.3 billion domestically and $3.65 billion internationally across all titles.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks Disney\u2019s biggest year on record since 2019, when the studio had a record seven films that shattered the $1 billion mark: Marvel adventures \u201cCaptain Marvel\u201d and \u201cAvengers: Endgame,\u201d the live action \u201cAladdin\u201d and \u201cThe Lion King,\u201d animated sequels \u201cToy Story 4\u201d and \u201cFrozen II\u201d and \u201cStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tNot everything that Disney released in 2025 will turn a theatrical profit. Pixar\u2019s \u201cElio\u201d ($154 million), the live-action \u201cSnow White\u201d ($205 million) and legacy sequel \u201cTron: Ares\u201d ($142 million) were major money losers against their production budgets that range from $150 million to $250 million. (Studios split ticket sales roughly 50-50 with theater owners, meaning a movie needs to earn at least 2.5 times its production budget to justify its price tag.) Meanwhile, Marvel couldn\u2019t regain its strength with three consecutive commercial duds in \u201cCaptain America: Brave New World\u201d ($415 million), \u201cThunderbolts\u201d ($382 million) and \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d ($521 million). Those tallies are a far cry from the days when any installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe could sprint past $1 billion (or get very close!) with ease. Granted, Disney\u2019s misses still outperform most of their rivals biggest wins in terms of sheer box office dollars. And the characters that populate these films can sell hundreds of millions, if not billions in the case of \u201cLilo & Stitch,\u201d<\/a> in consumer products.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney\u2019s box office dominance likely won\u2019t waver in 2026 with a powerhouse lineup that includes \u201cAvengers: Doomsday, \u201cToy Story 5,\u201d the live action \u201cMoana,\u201d and \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2.\u201d It\u2019s good to be Disney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All hail the Magic Kingdom. Disney notched a major box office milestone, surpassing $6 billion in global ticket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4550,146,85,46,397,93553],"class_list":{"0":"post-202113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-zootopia-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}