Disney is also responsible for four of the top nine highest grossing films of the year, including Beauty and the Beast with a worldwide total of $1.26 billion (and the #1 film of the year domestically), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 with an $863.6 million total, Thor: Ragnarok with a $798.4 million total, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales with a $794.8 million total.
Among the films that pushed the studio’s cumulative total so high is Marvel Studios‘ Thor: Ragnarok, which will surpass $800 million globally as of later today.
The film has already out gained the other two Thor films, leaving behind 2013’s Thor: The Dark World which brought in $644 million worldwide and 2011’s Thor with $449 million.
Thor: Ragnarok is also the seventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to reach the $800 million mark, an achievement that all three of the studio’s releases managed this year.