Disney Global Box Office Crosses $6.5 Billion, No. 1 Studio

UPDATE: The No. 1 movie studio of 2025 just updated its year-end global box office totals to $6.58 billion. With Disney's spending to date, that's $2.49 billion domestically and $4.08 billion internationally. As we mentioned earlier, this is the biggest box office year for Disney or any other studio since 2019. Disney has been No. 1 at the global box office for nine of the last ten years.

An estimated 700 million people saw a Disney film in theaters this year. The studio's 2025 releases total three billion grossing titles: Zootopia 2 (now the largest in the history of the Walt Disney Animation label), Lilo and Stitch And Avatar: Fire and Ash moving this week.

“This has been a fantastic year for our studio, as we will ultimately have three $3 billion dollar hits from three different studios, as well as a number of other strong performers throughout the year. It showcases the storytelling power of our creative teams and the great work of our marketing and distribution teams, as well as everyone who helps make these successes possible. I am grateful to our studio team and the amazing talent we are fortunate to work with, as well as audiences around the world.” This was stated by Alan Bergman, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment.

Upcoming releases in 2026 include: The Mandalorian and Grogu Memorial Day weekend, May 22; Avengers: Judgment Day December 18; Toy Story 5 June 19th and a Pixar original film Hoppers March 6; live adaptation Moana July 10; Cursed from Disney Animation Studios on November 25; sequels The Devil Wears Prada 2 summer begins on May 1st, and Searchlight's Ready or Not 2: Here I Come March 27; plus Send help January 30, Dog stars August 28 and whalefall October 16.

PREVIOUS DECEMBER. 24: Disney Studios continues to demonstrate the power of the theatrical window as the Burbank, California lot officially crosses the $6 billion global threshold today.

That ended up being $2.3 billion domestically, the best for any major U.S. film studio year-to-date, and $3.65 billion in international BOs.

We told you it would happen, but with over $450 million and the global success of James Cameron's film. Avatar: Fire and Ashthis happened a few days earlier.

Disney is the first and only studio to break the $6 billion mark this year. The next largest major company is Warner Bros with $4.3 billion. 2025 was Disney's most successful year yet BO since 2019, when it hit a record high of $13.1 billion. ($11.1 billion from Disney games alone, the rest from 20th Century Studios and Searchlight). This was the first and only time a major film studio topped $10 billion on the global BO Note. Warner Bros crossed $4 billion ahead of any other film studio for the first time this year.

This is the fifth time Disney has crossed the $6 billion mark, the previous years being 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016.

Disney earned $6 billion this year from 16 wide releases, including two films with box office receipts of $1 billion or more. Zootopia 2 ($1.3 billion today) and Lilo and Stitch ($1.038 billion) are the only two MPA titles to cross that mark. There have also been three Marvel Studios films that have collectively exceeded $1.3 billion worldwide: Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts* And Captain America: Brave New World. In addition, there was Predator: Badlands which became the highest grossing of the 38-year-old sci-fi thriller franchise with nearly $184 million, and Freaky Friday ($153.1 million). Things are not going very well, but they made their contribution to the bank Throne of Ares ($142.2 million) and Pixar Elio ($154.2 million).

Avatar: Fire and Ash Yesterday it grossed $50.8 million worldwide, with $16.5 million coming from North America. The total cost of Cameron, Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa, Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno's story from the threequel is $119 million domestically and $331.1 million overseas. China continues to lead all offshore indicators with $67 million.

As we previously reported, Fire and Ash became the second-biggest global MPA title opening this year with $347 million, behind Disney's own opening. Zootopia 2 ($560.3 million). The threequel also became Cameron's second-biggest global opening after 2022. Avatar: The Path of Water at $441.7 million (historical data).