Just a few short days ago, The Walt Disney Studios posted its biggest year of all time at the global box office, landing $5.851B to best the 2015 full-year record. Now, thanks to the spellbinding Doctor Strange, the Mouse has topped itself once again by speeding past the $6B mark — hitting it for the first time in the company’s history. Disney’s worldwide box office sits at $6.07B. Better yet, it is virtually assured of setting a new industry record in 2016, besting Universal’s 2015 $6.89 billion.
For the second year in a row, the Walt Disney Studios has reached a new high at the box office thanks to an absolutely stellar collection of releases from Disney, Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm.
Disney boasts no fewer than four of the top-grossing 2016 movies so far. “Zootopia” and “The Jungle Book” did better than anyone expected – “Zootopia” surpassed $1 billion worldwide, “The Jungle Book” is just under that mark. “Finding Dory” as well as “Captain America: Civil War” were the huge blockbusters everyone thought they would be – “Dory” and “Civil War” are slots one and two, respectively, in the top domestic earners of 2016.
Disney had already set several new industry records this year, becoming the fastest studio to collect $2 billion domestically (July 16), $3 billion internationally (July 6) and $5 billion globally (July 10). And on Oct. 16, the studio hit its best year ever internationally.
But Disney isn’t through yet. After “Doctor Strange,” it still has coming out this year “Moana” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” the first standalone “Star Wars” film.
Looking ahead to 2017, Disney has another chance to outpace their own records.They have Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Black Panther from Marvel and Cars 3 from Pixar, not to mention Star Wars Episode VIII.