

Those have combined for the best first half of a year, going by global box office, in history.Īccording to Deadline, Disney’s 2016 slate to date has earned $5.02 billion globally, including $3.05 billion from international box office, with domestic box office about to cross the $2 billion mark. Finding Dory is a Pixar movie, Zootopia from the Disney Animation side, while The Jungle Book is an adaptation of a well-established Disney property. Captain America: Civil War is from the Marvel stable.

It also owns its own legendary animation division, as well as a long, long list of well-known characters and other intellectual property.ĭisney’s slate of films so far in 2016 have come from all sorts of places.

has used an innovative strategy, largely involving acquiring established and popular properties and making good use of its own century-old stable of characters and stories, to become a box office juggernaut.
