The Walt Disney Co. accounted for about half of all ticket sales in U.S. and Canada theaters on the season.
Never before has one studio so dominated summer at the movies. The Walt Disney Co. accounted for about half of all ticket sales in U.S. and Canada theaters on the season, which came to a close Sunday with the Gerard Butler action thriller"Angel Has Fallen" topping the box office for the second weekend.
The final numbers on Hollywood's summer didn't add up to the box-office bonanza that some predicted. Instead, the main storyline on the summer came to be the yawning gap between Disney and the rest of the industry. Disney finalized its $71 billion acquisition of 20th Century Fox in March, but it was the studio's own offerings that propelled its market dominance.
Only one original film this summer ranked among the top 10, and it came in 10th. Quentin Tarantino's"Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" will have made an estimated $130.8 million through Monday domestically, plus sizable ticket sales abroad. It, along with"Spider-Man," helped lead Sony to its best summer since 2006 — but a distant No. 2 to Disney.
Lionsgate was among those that eked out some breathing room. Along with its August successes , the studio's"John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum" was, with $170.9 million, one of the summer's biggest successes. Counterprogramming often simply didn't work. And neither did gloomy-looking critically panned movies such as"Godzilla: King of the Monsters" and"Dark Phoenix." They were among the season's biggest flops.
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