Walt Disney Studios has become the first studio in 2026 to hit the $3 billion mark at the global box office. This comes following its latest success, Toy Story 5, which was the second-best opening for a Pixar animated movie ever with $312M worldwide. 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’ The Devil Wears Prada 2 ($677.6M, taking the franchise past $1B), Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (despite its relatively low gross, it made more than $323M), Pixar’s Hoppers ($372M), 20th Century Studios’ Send Help ($94M) 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 past 10 years.
And it’s not over yet for Disney, with upcoming theatrical releases being Disney live-action Moana (July 10), 20th Century Studios’ Ridley Scott-directed The Dog Stars (August 28), Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Hexed (November 25) and Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday on December 18.
On Wednesday out of CineEurope, the studio shared its plans with the ramp-up of Infinity Vision, a new certification it is issuing to exhibitors’ PLF screens ahead of the re-release of Marvel Studios’ newly retitled Avengers: Endgame Encore (September 25) and Avengers: Doomsday. The Infinity Vision release of Avengers: Endgame Encore will include a custom introduction, new footage and a special end tag exclusive to Infinity Vision and Imax releases.