The summer movie season has been a wild ride, to be sure. While many films have performed as expected, for better or worse, we’ve seen just as many surprises, where films surprised us with strong box office or found themselves surprisingly struggling. No single studio has had more of that latter situation than Disney.
For years now, Disney has not only been the king of the summer movie season, but the king of the box office, period. The company routinely has multiple movies at the top of the box office and tends to dominate all other studios. Technically, that’s still the case even now, but it’s difficult to imagine Disney wasn’t expecting to be in a much better place after the summer than it is now.
