All-time top-grossing Disney movies in the U.S. & Canada as of 2024

As of February 2024, "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" (2015) remained the highest-grossing Disney movie of all time in Canada and the United States, having grossed almost 934 million U.S. dollars across the two countries - collectively known as the North American box office market. "Avengers: Endgame" (2019) and "Black Panther" (2018) followed with box office revenues of 858 million and 700 million dollars, respectively. Around that time, graphic novels and spin-offs were the top-grossing film source materials in the U.S. and Canada.

Disney in the North American movie market

The pandemic's impact on the cinema industry posed an unparalleled challenge for the studio's usually outstanding performance on the big screen. Disney's box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada skyrocketed by over 160 percent in 2021. Yet the result amounted to less than one-third of the 3.8-billion-dollar revenue recorded in 2019, before the coronavirus outbreak. Despite the struggle, the distributor was the leading film studio in the U.S. and Canada by box office revenue in 2021.

The 'Big Five' in Hollywood

With its performance in 2021, Disney alone accounted for a little more than one-quarter of the entire North American box office market. It was followed by Sony, Universal, Warner Bros., and Paramount, which, along with Disney, form the "Big Five." The term - known as "Big Six" before Disney bought 20th Century Fox in the late 2010s - refers to the top studios in the most influential movie market worldwide. The "Big Five" altogether held nearly 80 percent of the market share in the U.S. and Canada in 2021.