Washington: Disney hit the $1 billion mark for domestic box-office returns this week post last weekend’s record-breaking debut of Guardians of the Galaxy.
The returns has lifted the studio to second in domestic market share, beating out Warner Bros. but still trailing 20th Century Fox, which has had a banner year with X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Fault in Our Stars, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
This is the ninth consecutive year that Disney has passed the $1 billion threshold in domestic returns. On Aug. 4, the studio passed $2Billion internationally, marking its fifth consecutive year to do so and the fastest it has broken that sum to date.
Apart from the $219.3 million global total of Guardians to date, Disney’s earnings have come primarily from Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($713.6 million), Maleficent ($727.9 million), and Frozen (which earned at total of $1.27 billion worldwide, much of that this year).