Inside Disney’s disastrous year of box office flops
nypost.comaccording to Variety. That’s less than the $519 million worldwide earnings from the first “Ant-Man” film in 2015 and the $623 million the second installment earned in 2018 (not adjusted for inflation).
The other was November’s release of “The Marvels.” Its 2019 predecessor “Captain Marvel” starring Brie Larson opened domestically north of $153 million and went on to earn $427 million and a whopping $1.1 billion worldwide. “The Marvels,” however, opened to just $46 million and may not even reach $100 million domestically (its total gross so far is less than $90 million domestically and roughly $200 million worldwide), making it the lowest-grossing Marvel film in the entire franchise and putting it in box office disaster territory, given its reported $274 million budget.Disney’s only sweet spot in all of 2023 was the May release of “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.
3,” starring Chris Pratt, which earned a sizable $359 million domestically and a strong $845 million worldwide, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2023 and definitely recouping its budget cost of $250 million.Moviegoers showed signs of being tired of recycled material from Hollywood.
Disney had a lot riding on its live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” starring Halle Bailey released in May. It earned a respectable $297 million domestically but greatly fell below expectations internationally, earning just $267 million overseas.
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