Tag: Box Office
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Frozen 2 Has a Hot Opening Weekend at the Box Office
This weekend Frozen 2 opened to fans around the globe. The results were record-breaking. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been watching social media over the weekend and watching the discussions about the film happening. Domestically, Frozen 2 brought in $127 million. Internationally, the Frozen sequel garnered $223.3 million. Together, this…
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Toy Story 4 Passes $1 Billion at the Global Box Office
Yesterday, Pixar’s Toy Story 4 became The Walt Disney Studios’ fifth billion dollar release for 2019. Through August 14, the film has earned an estimated $1.0017 billion worldwide. Toy Story 4—which is now the No. 8 biggest animated movie of all time—joins Incredibles 2, Finding Dory and Toy Story 3 to become the fourth Pixar film and second Toy Story film to reach the…
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Disney Roars – GEEKS CORNER – Episode 944 (#462)
Welcome to another week of GEEKS CORNER! This week, the geeks have a lot of fun. The show starts off with a discussion of the billion-dollar movie club Disney is building. This includes the new record that Walt Disney Studios has made. Throughout the course of the conversation the Star Wars Holiday Special and Avatar…
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Disney’s The Lion King Crosses $1 Billion Mark Globally
Disney’s new telling of The Lion King continues to roar at the office. After winning for a second weekend at the box office, it had reached an estimated $999 million worldwide through yesterday. Today, Disney announced that The Lion King will pass the $1 billion mark on the 19th day since it was released. This…
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Disney’s The Lion King Continues to Reign Atop the Box Office for Second Week
Disney’s The Lion King continued to dominate at the box office this weekend. While it faced some competition from Once Upon A Time … In Hollywood, Disney’s remake of the animated classic roared its way to number one once again. For its second weekend, The Lion King brought in around $75 million. This was ahead…
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Disney Continues to Make Records as it Cruises Past Own Global Box Office Record
The Walt Disney Company continues to dominate at the box office and over the weekend surpassed one of its own records. The record, set in 2016 was $7.61 at the global box office. As of this weekend, Disney surpassed $7.67 at the global box office. This wasn’t the only record Disney beat this weekend though.…
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‘The Lion King’ Reigns Over the Global Box Office
With a mighty domestic debut of $191.8 million, The Lion King roared to a worldwide debut of $446.1 million, the ninth highest global debut of all time. Along with an international opening weekend of $254.3 million plus $97.5 million in China, where the film opened July 12, The Lion King’s global cumulative box office is $543.6 million over 10…
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Disney’s Aladdin’ Passing $900 Million at Global Box Office
Disney’s Aladdin is becoming one of Disney’s more successful live-action remakes of an animated feature film. The movie is crossing the $900 million mark at the global box office. On Friday Disney announced that the film had already pulled in $897.3 million globally and would be joining six other live-action movies in crossing $900 million.…
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Toy Story 4 Holds Top Spot For Second Week
Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story 4 continues to reign at the top spot at the box office coming in number one for the second week in a row. This week, it beat out newcomers Annabelle Comes Home and the surprise hit, Yesterday. Toy Story 4 won the weekend with $57.9 million added to its box office total.…
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Disney’s Live-Action Aladdin Scores Solid $113 Million Opening Weekend
Disney’s live-action version of Aladdin had a solid opening weekend of $112.7 million this weekend domestically. This exceeded expectations which had the movie projected to hit the $75-$85 million for the weekend. The movie, directed by Guy Ritchie, stars Will Smith as the Genie, Mena Massoud in the title role, and Naomi Scott as Princess…
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Avengers: Infinity War Garners Top Box Office Opening Weekend Ever!
Avengers: Infinity War has garnered an estimated $630 million globally. This makes it the number opening weekend for a movie of all time. Domestically, the film pulled in $250 million. This also makes it the largest domestic opening ever as it passes Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ $248 million in 2015. The accomplishment now gives Disney…
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Disney Hits $6 Billion at the Box Office… Again!
The Walt Disney Company has hit $6 billion at the box office again this year. This makes it the only company to do so twice. This milestone was reached with a nice push from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Last year, Disney set the record of hitting $6 billion and became the first company to…
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Disney-Pixar’s Coco Sets Box Office Record
Disney-Pixar’s Coco opens in the United States on November 22nd but it is already setting records. The most recent movie to be released by Pixar Animation Studios has already pulled in $43 million after being in theaters in Mexico for less than a month. Coco isn’t just chugging along and making money though. On Wednesday…
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Zootopia Zooms Past $1Billion Mark Worldwide
Zootopia, from Walt Disney Animation Studios, has now officially crossed the $1 billion dollar mark as of this last weekend. This marks the second movie to do so for the Walt Disney Company in 2016 alone. This makes Zootopia the 4th animated feature to cross $1 billion and puts it right after Frozen globally for…
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Disney’s Live-Action ‘The Jungle Book’ Passes $700 Million in Sales Worldwide
On Monday, Walt Disney Studios’ The Jungle Book passed $700 million in box office sales. As of today, the film “roared” passed expectations and more, reaching $708.6 million. With both domestic sales at $255.8 million and international sales at $452.8 million, the feature now ranks as #4 film of the year overall. In addition, the film…
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ to Pass $2 Billion Globally
February 5, 2016, marks the 50th day of Star Wars: The Force Awakens being out in theaters. With the revival of the franchise, the film broke numerous box office records both domestically and globally. The film which was directed by J.J. Abrams and written by Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt, is in the running for five Academy Awards…
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‘Force Awakens’ to Pass ‘Avatar’ as Highest Grossing Film of all Time in North America
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has achieved another milestone. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest film of the franchise is to be the “highest-grossing film of all time in North America.” Though the flux of inflation was not taken into account in the article, the film will have passed the current record holder, Avatar, as of Wednesday.…
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Reels in $528 Million Globally Over Opening Weekend
Early Monday morning, reports poured in from the success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Over the weekend, theater goers rushed to see the latest film installment in the franchise. As stated by The Hollywood Reporter, Force Awakens ticket sales broke records. Currently, J.J. Abram’s latest project has reeled in $528M-plus globally. With the film now…
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‘Force Awakens’ Smashes Box Office Record Thursday with $57 Million
Thursday evening, Star Wars fans across the nation headed into theaters for the long-awaited Force Awakens. With the film’s official release on December 18 here in the states, many bought their tickets way in advance, dating as far back as October. Even more so, some audience goers camped outside of theaters weeks in advance. Star…
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Walt Disney Studios Sets New Record Reaching $1 Billion in Domestic Box Office Sales
Marking a huge milestone, Walt Disney Studios has reached $1 billion in domestic box office sales in the past 174 days. News broke on Thursday of this achievement and the Los Angeles Times noted, “this is the 10th consecutive year and the 19th year overall that the studio has surpassed the box office milestone.” The…
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‘Inside Out’ Brings in $91.1 Million During Opening Weekend
Over the weekend, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out hit theaters, just one week after Universal’s Jurassic World, which broke numerous records. Despite the overwhelming Universal success, audience goers still went to the theaters to venture into the mind of Riley. According to TIME, the film grossed a total of $91.1 million during the weekend. With…
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Disney’s The Muppets Comes in Strong at the Box Office Over Thanksgiving Weekend
DAPs Magic Disney News – By Mr. DAPs Disney has something to be thankful for this weekend as The Muppets returned to the silver screen with a strong $42 million over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The Muppets came in second following The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 which brought in $62.3 million. Thanksgiving…
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Lion King Becomes One of the Top Grossing Domestic Films of All Time
DAPs Magic Disney News – by Mr. DAPs The 3D release of The Lion King has taken Simba and his friends to a whole new level in the movie industry. The Lion King is now one of the top ten grossing films of all time. Just the 3D release of this Disney classic has…
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Simba Remains King of Box Office with Lion King 3D
DAPs Magic Disney News – by Mr. DAPs The Lion King has retained the top spot in the box office race for the second weekend in a row. This week, The Lion King 3D held off Brad Pitt’s Moneyball. According to the Associated Press, The Lion King 3D brought in $22.1 million this weekend. It has…