Earlier today, we reported that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took in a $290.5 million haul at the global box office during it’s opening weekend. Pretty impressive, huh? Well, the good news doesn’t there for Disney, because when you add the highly anticipated spin-off’s takings to the studio’s accumulated box office gross for the year, it pushes the House of Mouse’s haul for the year over $7 billion making it the first studio ever to reach that magic number in one year. It definitely helps that this year saw Disney, Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, and Lucasfilm releasing films this year, the first time all five brands have done so, with Captain America: Civil War, Finding Dory, and Zootopia (Zootropolis for those of us on this side of the pond) adding a combined total offer $3 billion to the final haul.
This isn’t the only record the studio has broken this year, with July seeing them become the fastest to reach $2 billion in America and $5 billion globally. But it wasn’t all plain sailing though, with Alice Through the Looking Glass and The Finest Hours being deemed commercial failures, with Variety even reporting that the studio could be posting a $75 million loss on the Coast Guard drama. But they were just blips in the radar, and didn’t stop Disney from reaching this epic mile stone.
This isn’t the only record the studio has broken this year, with July seeing them become the fastest to reach $2 billion in America and $5 billion globally. But it wasn’t all plain sailing though, with Alice Through the Looking Glass and The Finest Hours being deemed commercial failures, with Variety even reporting that the studio could be posting a $75 million loss on the Coast Guard drama. But they were just blips in the radar, and didn’t stop Disney from reaching this epic mile stone.
