The Walt Disney Company\u2019s\u00a0box office domination continued over the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoana 2\u201d topped $1 billion during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, becoming the studio\u2019s third 2024 release to reach the coveted benchmark after Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cDeadpool and Wolverine\u201d and Pixar\u2019s \u201cInside Out 2.\u201d No other Hollywood studio had a film cross $1 billion last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoana 2\u201d snared $442.8 million at the domestic box office and $567.1 million in international markets, the company posted over the weekend. It is the fourth film from the Walt Disney Animation arm to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales alongside \u201cFrozen,\u201d \u201cFrozen II\u201d and \u201cZootopia.\u201d<\/p>\n
This feat is another feather in the cap for Disney, which had struggled in the years after the pandemic to gain tractions with its animated releases. Much of the company\u2019s difficulties stemmed, in part, from decisions to debut a handful of animated features directly on its streaming service Disney+. This trained parents to look for new content at home even after theatrical closures ended and films returned to cinemas.<\/p>\n
\u201cInside Out 2\u201d not only marked a return to form for Disney, but it helped jumpstart the overall domestic box office in June. It snared more than $650 million domestically and became the first film since\u00a0Warner Bros\u2032\u00a0\u201cBarbie\u201d\u00a0to\u00a0top $1 billion\u00a0at the global box office.<\/p>\n
It also marked the first time a Pixar or Walt Disney Animation film generated more than $480 million at the global box office since 2019. \u201cInside Out 2\u2033 ultimately became the highest-grossing film of 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeadpool and Wolverine,\u201d \u201cInside Out 2\u2033 and \u201cMoana 2,\u201d along with a handful of other theatrical releases, helped Disney reach more than $2.2 billion at the domestic box office last year,\u00a0accounting for about 25% of the industry\u2019s total haul, according to data from Comscore.<\/p>\n
With \u201cMoana 2\u201d crossing the billion-dollar mark, Disney now has 32 billion-dollar movies \u2014 including three films it acquired when it bought Fox in 2019, according to the company. For context, there have only been 56 films that have topped $1 billion at the global box office, meaning Disney is responsible for nearly 60% of the highest-grossing films in cinematic history.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Walt Disney Company\u2019s\u00a0box office domination continued over the holiday weekend. \u201cMoana 2\u201d topped $1 billion during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, becoming the studio\u2019s third 2024 release to reach the coveted benchmark after Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cDeadpool and Wolverine\u201d and Pixar\u2019s \u201cInside Out 2.\u201d No other Hollywood studio had a film cross $1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}