Disney Studios continues to show the power of the theatrical window as the Burbank, CA lot is officially crossing the $6 billion worldwide threshold today.
Broken out that’s $2.3B domestic, the best for any major motion picture studio stateside YTD, and $3.65B in international B.O.
We told you this was coming, but with the $450M+ and counting global success of James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, it happened a few days sooner.
Disney is the first and only studio to cross $6B this year, the next best major is Warner Bros with $4.3B. 2025 repped Disney’s biggest year at the B.O. since 2019 when it hit an all-time $13.1B ($11.1B from Disney titles alone, the rest being 20th Century Studios and Searchlight). That was the first and only time a major motion picture studio crossed $10B at the worldwide B.O. Note, Warner Bros, crossed $4B first this year before any other motion picture studio.
This is Disney’s fifth time clicking past $6B, the previous years being 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016.
Disney’s flew to $6B this year off the heels of 16 wide releases including two $1 billion-plus grossing titles with Zootopia 2 ($1.3B to date) and Lilo & Stitch ($1.038 billion) — the only two MPA titles to cross that mark. There were also three Marvel Studios movies which combined topped $1.3B global: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts* and Captain America: Brave New World. In addition there was Predator: Badlands which became the highest grossing in the 38-year old sci-fi thriller franchise with a near $184M as well as Freakier Friday ($153.1M). Not faring well, but contributing to the pot were Tron Ares ($142.2M), and Pixar’s Elio ($154.2M).
Avatar: Fire and Ash collected $50.8M worldwide yesterday, $16.5M of that coming from North America. The running total of the Cameron, Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa, Josh Friedman & Shane Salerno story by threequel is $119M domestic, with $331.1M overseas. China continues to lead all offshore results with $67M.
As we reported previously, Fire and Ash repped the second biggest global opening for an MPA title this year with $347M after Disney’s own Zootopia 2 ($560.3M). The threequel also repped the second biggest global opening for Cameron after 2022’s Avatar: Way of Water at $441.7M (historically reported).