Disney Set to Break Market-Share Record

A ragtag team consisting of the Avengers, a surgeonfish and the Rebel Alliance are teaming up to help Disney claim a bigger share of the annual box-office than any other studio in Hollywood’s modern age.

With its string of monster hits — many of them geared toward kids who often turn into fans for life — and a lack of quality competition from many of its competitors, the Mouse House is gobbling up box office cheese at a record pace.

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Last year, behind smash hits “Jurassic World” and “Furious 7,” Universal set the market share record with 21.3 percent of the U.S. box office and a total domestic gross of $2.4 billion.

With nearly $2.1 billion as of Aug. 21, Disney looks like a safe bet to top that, and looking at the rest of the year, it’s hard to come up with any hurdles that might stand in the way of a new market share record as well.

Also in 2016, Disney put out four films that made more than $341 million at the domestic box office, led by “Finding Dory,” the year’s No. 1 movie with $478.4 million.

July’s “The BFG” was a big-budget flop, managing just $141.8 million worldwide on a $140 budget.

[...] in August, Disney released “Pete’s Dragon,” a movie that was conspicuously under the radar in both its budget — $65 million — and marketing.

Between 2006 and 2012, Disney acquired three production companies that have become pillars of its current box office domination:

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“The Force Awakens” was a disappointment in China — leaving fans unfamiliar with the backstory confused and sleeping in the theater — but Disney is doing what it can to ensure “Rogue One” resonates.