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Box Office Mojo explains:
In just over four months, Disney’s domestic studio’s classic animated feature brought to life The Jungle Book ($287.6M and counting) pushed the studio over the $1 billion mark.
How did Disney get here?
Of course, healthy contributors to recently that all the stars began to come into alignment as 2016 might be the first year Disney finishes as the #1 studio among the “Big Six” (Fox, Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros.) since 2003.
Let’s take a look at the stats for The Force Awakens
| Domestic: | $936,662,225 | 45.3% |
| + Foreign: | $1,131,513,827 | 54.7% |
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| = Worldwide: | $2,068,176,052 | |
| Opening Weekend: | $247,966,675 |
| (#1 rank, 4,134 theaters, $59,982 average) | |
| % of Total Gross: | 26.5% |
| > View All 24 Weekends | |
| Widest Release: | 4,134 theaters |
| Close Date: | June 2, 2016 |
| In Release: | 168 days / 24 weeks |
It is the first film to ever cross $900 cross the $2 billion mark worldwide and it did so in only 53 days. It’s nearly impossible to compare it to anything else because this has simply never been done before.
Just below are the top five tops off the charts.
ALL-TIME DOMESTIC (full chart here)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) – $900,831,469
- Avatar (2009) – $760,507,625
- Titanic (1997) – $658,672,302
- Jurassic World (2015) – $652,270,625
- Marvel’s The Avengers (2012) – $623,357,910
ALL-TIME WORLDWIDE (full chart here)
- Avatar (2009) – $2.788 billion
- Titanic (1997) – $2.1868 billion
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) – $1.998 billion
- Jurassic World (2015) – $1.6704 billion
- Marvel’s The Avengers (2012) – $1.5196 billion
Based on this, what can we expect to see from the future films?
