The $332m global launch of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has pushed Disney past the $3bn global box office mark for the year to date, with James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way Of Water waiting in the wings.
This is the 14th year that the studio has reached the $3bn milestone and box office has surpassed 2021’s $2.9bn total.
Powering the achievement have been Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness on $955m, Thor: Love And Thunder on $761m, Pixar’s Lightyear on $227m, and 20th Century Studios’ Death On The Nile on $138m.
Coming up for the remainder of the year besides Cameron’s Avatar sequel under the 20th Century Studios’ label on December 16 are Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Strange World (November 23) and Searchlight Pictures’ The Menu (November 18) and Empire Of Light (December 9).
Disney’s record box office year came in 2019 when it set an industry record $13.2bn worldwide, a seemingly unassailable benchmark driven by a formidable release slate that included The Lion King, Avengers: Endgame, Toy Story 4, Frozen 2, Captain Marvel, and Aladdin.
Each of those films grossed more than $1bn worldwide within the calendar year, while seven tentpoles released by Disney in 2019 finished higher than $1bn factoring in Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, which reached the milestone in early 2020.
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