Walt Disney Studios has become the first studio in 2026 to click past the $3 billion mark at the global box office. This comes following their latest success, Toy Story 5, which was the second-best opening for a Pixar animated movie ever with $312M at the global box office. The Andrew Stanton directed movie currently stands at north of $367M WW.
In addition, Disney has had global cash from such movies as 20th Century Studios’ Devil Wears Prada 2 ($677.6M; also took the franchise past $1B), Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu (despite its low gross, it made over $323M), Pixar’s Hoppers ($372M), 20th Century Studios’ Send Help ($94M WW) and the carryover success of 2025’s Avatar: Fire and Ash and Zootopia 2. All of Disney’s 2026 theatrical releases opened at No. 1.
Disney has the been the world’s No. 1 studio in nine of the last ten years.
It’s not over yet for Disney with upcoming theatrical releases being Disney Live Action’s Moana (July 10), 20th Century Studios’ Ridley Scott directed The Dog Stars (Aug. 28), Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Hexed (Nov. 25) and Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday on Dec. 18.
Yesterday out of CineEurope, the studio shared their plans with the ramp of Infinity Vision, a new certification that they’re issuing to exhibitors’ PLF screens ahead of the re-release of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame Encore (Sept. 25) and Avengers: Doomsday. The Infinity Vision release of Avengers: Endgame Encore will include a custom introduction, additional new footage, and a special end tag exclusive to Infinity Vision and Imax releases.