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Walt Disney Animation’s all-audience tentpole Frozen 2 led the box office with a record-shattering $123.7 million for the Wednesday-Sunday stretch, easily besting the $109.9 million grossed by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire during the same corridor in 2013. Frozen 2 marks the biggest Thanksgiving showing ever for a Disney animated film after taking the crown …

Princess Anna and Queen Elsa thawed hearts around the globe in their triumphant return to the big screen over the weekend. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ music-infused Frozen 2 opened to a record $127 million in the U.S. and a fiery $223.3 million overseas from 37 markets for a massive worldwide start of …

 Terminator: Dark Fate  bombed in its domestic box office debut over the weekend with $29 million from 4,086 theaters, well behind expectations though still bowing at No. 1. Not even the return of James Cameron in the producer’s chair and original series stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger could spark …

In a supervillain showdown, Joker edged out Maleficent: Mistress of Evil at the weekend box office. Warner Bros. is estimating a North American gross of $18.9 million for Joker, while Disney shows Maleficent at $18.5 million. It’s always possible the order could change when final weekend numbers are tallied on Monday. The top 12 films of the …

There was nothing magical about the domestic box office debut of the Angelina Jolie-starrer Maleficent: Mistress of Evil over the weekend. The sequel stumbled to first place with $36 million from 3,790 theaters, well behind expectations and more than 45 percent behind the $69.4 million launch of Maleficent five years ago. It also supplanted Dumbo to …

The Lion King took in $75.5 million in its sophomore outing in North America for a domestic tally of $350 million and a global cume of $962.7 million, including a weekend haul overseas of $142.8 million. Disney has now reached $7.67 billion in 2019 global ticket sales, eclipsing the industry record …

Furthering Disney’s domination, Jon Favreau’s The Lion King opened to a record-breaking $185 million at the North American box office over the weekend for an early global total of $531 million. The movie scored the biggest domestic launch ever for a PG film, and the ninth-biggest for any movie, not to mention …

Pixar and Disney’s Toy Story 4 had no trouble staying No. 1 in its second weekend and fending off new offerings Annabelle Comes Home and Yesterday.The animated family film dipped 52 percent to $58 million as it raced past the $200 million mark domestically and cleared an impressive $496.5 million worldwide. Its North American tally …

Pixar and Disney’s critically acclaimed Toy Story 4 buzzed to the top of the North American box office chart over the weekend with $118 million, one of the biggest openings of all time for an animated movie despite coming in behind expectations. The family tentpole bowed simultaneously in numerous foreign markets for …

It may be a whole new world for Aladdin, but it turned out to be another lucrative opening weekend for Disney. The live-action feature grossed $112.7 million stateside over the Memorial Day weekend, beating out even high-end estimates that the film would bow to $100 million.  The rehashing of the studio’s …