Global Box Office News

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Global Box Office News

This season Disney, together with its 20th Century Studios brand, led summer 2024 with $1.53 billion (USD) thanks to a comeback in brands Pixar with 'Inside Out 2' and MCU with 'Deadpool & Wolverine', as well as its Fox brands of 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' and 'Alien: Romulus'. Disney is up 121% over last summer's $692 million misfires of 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny', 'The Haunted Mansion' and the foreign fallout of 'Little Mermaid'.

Universal came second that also includes Focus Features films with $754.6M (+23% from the summer of 'Oppenheimer', the studio grossing $616M) built chiefly on the backs of 'Twisters' and 'Despicable Me 4'. 'Fall Guy' didn't fire off summer, and it was always meant to be off-season programming, but talk about getting blood from rock with $92.9M for that feathered fish off a $27.7M opening, a 3.3x multiple. That's close to the same multiple of David Leitch's last directed summer movie, 'Bullet Train' - it is noteworthy.

Sony was third after starting the summer streak back in early June with 'Bad Boys: Ride or Die', followed by its female romance renaissance, 'It Ends With Us'. The Culver City lot collected $520.4M including Sony Classics and Crunchyroll labels. The studio wasn't without their failures as they swung for the fences with this weekend's Blumhouse title 'Afraid' ($4.4M 4-day), 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' ($17M) and their distribution of Apple's silly expensive $100M 'Fly Me to the Moon' ($20.4M), off which Sony collected a distribution fee.

Paramount is next for the summer with $250M fueled by 'A Quiet Place: Day One' ($138.9M) and 'If' ($111.1M). Not serious for the Melrose lot which is about to get swallowed up by Skydance after a long summer negotiations - Skydance is the current motion picture administration in charge now. No need to get an ego and turn it upside down with fresh faces when the factory is humming, capisce?
After a robust spring with Legendary's 'Dune: Part Two' and 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', which stateside combined grossed close to half billion, Warner Bros. couldn't crack $170M (-81% from the summer of 'Barbie' which drove $877M) comprised of two Shyamalan family movies, 'Trap' and 'The Watchers'; Kevin Costner's three-hour part-one western, 'Horizon', and George Miller's 'Mad Max: Fury Road' ($168M) price tag prequel, 'Furiosa', which the Burbank, CA lot had great faith in, however, the film didn't register with any mass audience at $67.4M.