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2018 marks record year at the box office, with Disney way out in front

January 5, 2019 by Gary Collinson

Now that the dust has settled on 2018, ComScore is reporting that the movie industry enjoyed a record year at the box office over the past twelve months with a $41.7 billion worldwide haul – almost a fifth of which ended up in Disney’s coffers.

Globally, Disney’s releases pulled in $7.33 billion in total in 2018, the second-highest in history for a studio after the Mouse House’s own record haul of $7.61 billion in 2016. Domestically, it also set a new studio record, earning $3.09 billion for a 26% market share of North America’s $11.9 billion (another all-time high).

Disney has distributed three of the top five highest-grossing movies of 2018 in Avengers: Infinity War ($2.049 billion), Black Panther ($1.243 billion) and Incredibles 2 ($1.243 billion); the only other studio to reach the billion dollar mark was Universal with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ($1.309 billion).

In North America, Universal landed in second place with $1.96 billion, followed by Warner Bros. on $1.93 billion, Sony on $1.28 billion, Fox with $1.24 billion, Paramount with $757 million, Lionsgate with $389 million, STX with $296.6 million and MGM with $164 million.

Given some of the huge releases that Disney has in store for this year – see Avengers: Endgame, Aladdin, The Lion King, Dumbo, Toy Story 4, Frozen 2 and Star Wars: Episode IX – and the impending Fox acquisition, it seems nailed on that 2019 will be another huge, record-breaking year for the studio as it continues to pull further and further ahead of the competition.

Via Variety

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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