{"id":659255,"date":"2026-06-26T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659255\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:01:23","slug":"box-office-disney-first-studio-to-pass-3b-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659255\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: Disney First Studio to Pass $3B Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWalt <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney\" data-tag=\"disney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a> Studios has become the first studio in 2026 to hit the $3 billion mark at the global box office. This comes following its latest success, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/toy-story-5\/\" id=\"auto-tag_toy-story-5\" data-tag=\"toy-story-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toy Story 5<\/a>,\u00a0which was the second-best opening for a Pixar animated movie ever with $312M worldwide. The Andrew Stanton-directed movie currently stands at north of $367M WW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition, Disney has had global cash from such movies as 20th Century Studios\u2019 The Devil Wears Prada 2 ($677.6M, taking the franchise past $1B), Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (despite its relatively low gross, it made more than $323M), Pixar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hoppers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hoppers\" data-tag=\"hoppers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hoppers<\/a> ($372M), 20th Century Studios\u2019 Send Help ($94M) and the carryover success of 2025\u2019s Avatar: Fire and Ash and Zootopia 2. All of Disney\u2019s 2026 theatrical releases opened at No. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDisney has the been the world\u2019s No. 1 studio in nine of the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnd it\u2019s not over yet for Disney, with upcoming theatrical releases being Disney live-action\u00a0Moana (July 10), 20th Century Studios\u2019 Ridley Scott-directed\u00a0The Dog Stars (August 28), Walt\u00a0Disney Animation Studios\u2019\u00a0Hexed\u00a0(November 25) and Marvel Studios\u2019\u00a0Avengers: Doomsday on December 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Wednesday out of CineEurope, the studio shared its plans with <a data-id=\"1236966128\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/avengers-endgame-re-release-retitle-disney-infinity-vision-1236966128\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the ramp-up of Infinity Vision<\/a>, a new certification it is issuing to exhibitors\u2019 PLF screens ahead of the re-release of Marvel Studios\u2019 newly retitled Avengers: Endgame Encore (September 25) and Avengers: Doomsday. The\u00a0Infinity Vision\u00a0release of\u00a0Avengers: Endgame Encore\u00a0will include a custom introduction, new footage and a special end tag exclusive to\u00a0Infinity Vision\u00a0and\u00a0Imax releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walt Disney Studios has become the first studio in 2026 to hit the $3 billion mark at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6460,96,164838,2839,221273,45492,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-hoppers","tag-movies","tag-star-wars-mandalorian-grogu","tag-toy-story-5","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}