As of Christmas Day, Disney has nabbed the domestic box office crown for the second year in a row, with $2.27 billion already banked in 2017 thanks to its one-two punch of Star Wars: The Last Jedi & Beauty and the Beast — and there’s still more to add to that total too!
As of Dec. 25, Disney had a 21.3% market share compared with Warner Bros. at 18.9% and $2.02 billion, according to box office tracker comScore. That gap will widen during the final days of 2017, with The Last Jedi dominating moviegoing.
The two studios also finished first and second in 2016, when Disney took in $2.85 billion and Warner Bros. followed with $1.88 billion. And in both years, Disney released far fewer titles than other Hollywood studios with 16 in 2016 and only 12 this year, led by its live-action Beauty and the Beast reboot, which remains the top domestic grosser of the year with $504 million.
Disney-Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was the studio’s third-highest earner with $389.8 million, Thor: Ragnarok with $309.1 million, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales with $172.6 million, Coco with $167.3 million, and Cars 3 with $152.9 million.
Read the full breakdown at Variety.com.
