Winning big: Disney enjoys best- ever year during box office
LOS ANGELES: Walt Disney Studios is celebrating a biggest year ever during a tellurian box bureau after raking in $5.9 billion in sheet sales during a initial 10 months of 2016. Hits such as Finding Dory, Captain America: Civil War and Zootopia ensured that a studio, that owns prestigious brands like Marvel and Pixar, has already beaten final year’s $5.8 billion with dual months to spare, a association announced on Tuesday.
With a Star Wars spin-off, Marvel’s superhero film Doctor Strange and charcterised low-pitched Moana nonetheless to open domestically, a studio could positively pass a record of $6.9 billion, set by Universal in 2015. “For a second year in a row, The Walt Disney Studios has reached a new high during a box office, interjection to an positively stellar collection of releases from Disney, Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm,” pronounced studio authority Alan Horn. “This success is a covenant to a polished talent and innovative work a whole studio group puts into creation these world-class cinematic experiences.”
Disney has set several annals this year, apropos a fastest studio ever to strike $2 billion domestically and $5 billion during a tellurian box office, both in July. It has not been wholly plain sailing, as Alice by a Looking Glass and The BFG were deemed blurb flops, while Pete’s Dragon frequency had a accountants jumping for joy. Coastguard play The Finest Hours also sank but a trace, with Variety repository stating that Disney was awaiting waste of around $75 million from a film.
On a other side of a ledger, a studio had 3 hits in 2016 that upheld a shining $1 billion tellurian mark: Captain America ($1.1 billion), Zootopia ($1.023 billion) and Finding Dory ($1.022 billion).
The Jungle Book done $966 million while Star Wars: The Force Awakens, that debuted in Dec final year, brought in $737 million of a $2.1 billion tellurian take in 2016.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 4th, 2016.
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