The end of Disney’s 8-year rule over world cinema

Charso Press: According to Screen, while the Disney company has been consistently at the top of the annual sales of movie studios at the global box office since 2016, Universal Pictures was named the best-selling movie studio for the first time in the last eight years.

Universal Pictures, which released 24 films in 2023 compared to Disney’s 17, earned $1.94 billion at the North American box office, while the studio’s international sales were 2. 97 billion, which made the total global sales of 4.91 billion dollars for this company.

Despite a difficult year with several failures, Disney managed to earn $1.9 billion in North America, $2.92 billion internationally and $4.83 billion at the global box office.

Universal became the first studio in North America to cross the $1 billion mark, releasing five of its top-grossing films, led by Super Mario Bros., which is slated to become the second-highest-grossing film of the year in North America in 2023 with $575 million. It was placed.

Universal’s other top-grossing films in the US include “Fast and Furious 10” ($146.1 million), “Five Nights with Freddie” ($137.3 million), “The Exorcist: Believer” ($65.5 million) and Knock on the cabin door” ($35.4 million).

“Oppenheimer” missed the No. 1 spot as it finished with $82.5 million over the July 21-23 weekend behind Warner Bros.’ “Barbie,” which became the biggest film of the year at the North American and global box office. placed second.

Christopher Nolan’s biopic “Oppenheimer” ended its run as Universal’s second-biggest North American film of 2023 with $326.1 million, and with $952 million it became the top-grossing biopic of all time at the global box office, as well as the highest-grossing. The movie was rated “R”.

With $1.36 billion, the animation “Super Mario Brothers” was named the highest-grossing animation of 2023 and the second highest-grossing animation in the history of cinema after “Frozen 2”. (1.45 billion dollars) was a Disney product and became the second highest-grossing animation of all time at the North American box office after “Incredibles 2” with 609 million dollars.

Universal also recorded the box office of the horror movies of the year with the sale of 290 million dollars.

One of the most important Disney films in 2023 is Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Episode 7, which sold $359 million in North America and $846 million worldwide. “The Little Mermaid” from the Walt Disney Animation Studio with 298 million dollars in domestic sales and 570 million dollars worldwide and “Elemental” animation with 154 million dollars in domestic sales and 496 million dollars in global sales are other successful works of the huge Disney studio last year. were AD

Avatar: The Last Airbender, which opened in December 2022, also earned more than $1 billion in 2023, with $283 million from North America and $734 million from international markets. This sci-fi film spent four weeks at number one and became the third highest-grossing film in cinema history with a worldwide gross of $2.32 billion.

With a domestic revenue of $1.43 billion, international revenue of $2.41 billion, and global revenue of $3.84 billion, Warner Bros. ranked third among the most successful studios in 2023 after Universal and Disney, and Sony Pictures ranked fourth ($1.01 billion). $ domestic, $1.08 billion international, $2.09 billion global) followed by Paramount ($842.41 million domestic, $1.18 billion international, $2.03 billion global).