Disney Becomes Only Studio To Hit $2 Billion At Domestic Box Office In 2024

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If 2024 will be remembered for anything, it will be the absolute return of Disney at the box office. After a string of events films that weren’t events in 2023, i.e.

Pixar’s Elemental, The Marvels, The Haunted Mansion and Wish, the Mouse House came raging back this year, becoming the only motion picture studio to cross the $2 billion threshold with three of the top five films in Inside Out 2 ($652.9M), the highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time Deadpool & Wolverine ($636.7M) and Moana 2 ($342M).

And that amount is only going to go higher with the release of Mufasa this Friday, that prequel’s opening set to do $50M. There’s also Searchlight’s James Mangold directed Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown, opening wide on Christmas Day.

Disney’s domestic tally includes grosses from its 20th Century Studios and Searchlight labels. It’s the second time that Disney has flew past $2B since 2019, the last time being in 2022.