Dwayne Johnson is the voice of Maui in Disney Animation’s Moana 2.
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walt disney company The box office dominance continued over the holiday weekend.
“Moana 2” topped $1 billion over Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, and the studio’s 2024 releases include Marvel Studios’ “Deadpool & Wolverine” and Pixar’s “Inside Head.” It is the third film to reach the coveted benchmark, after “2”. No other Hollywood studio had a movie make more than $1 billion last year.
The company announced last weekend that “Moana 2” had grossed $442.8 million at the domestic box office and $567.1 million in overseas markets. It is the fourth Walt Disney Animation film to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales, along with Frozen, Frozen II, and Zootopia.
The feat is another feather in the cap for Disney, which has struggled to gain traction with animated releases in the post-pandemic years. Many of the company’s difficulties stem in part from its decision to release some animated features directly on its streaming service Disney+. This trained parents to seek out new content at home even after theaters closed and movies returned to theaters.
“Inside Head 2” not only revived Disney’s momentum, but also helped revitalize the overall domestic box office in June. It grossed more than $650 million at the domestic box office and became the first film to gross more than $1 billion at the global box office since Warner Bros.’ Barbie.
It was also the first time since 2019 that a Pixar or Walt Disney animated film has grossed more than $480 million at the global box office. “Inside Head 2” ended up being the highest-grossing film of 2024.
Thanks to “Deadpool & Wolverine,” “Inside Head 2,” “Moana 2” and several other theatrical releases, Disney earned more than $2.2 billion at the domestic box office last year, leading the industry as a whole. accounted for approximately 25% of the total. transportation volume, according to Comscore data.
With Moana 2 passing the $1 billion mark, Disney now has a $32 billion movie slate, including the three it acquired when it acquired Fox in 2019. It also includes movies. For comparison, only 56 movies have grossed more than $1 billion at the global box office, meaning that Disney is responsible for nearly 60% of the highest-grossing movies in history.
