Disney is finishing out a major year; the studio made over $6 billion in ticket sales in 2026. “This is Disney’s fifth time crossing

Walt Disney Studios is once again proving that theatrical still matters. The studio officially crossed the $6 billion worldwide box office mark, becoming the first and only studio to hit that milestone in 2025.

But with the 1940s came World War II and workers’ strikes, and Disney lost its foreign markets, most of its box office sales and many of its creative staff. After the company spent the war producing propaganda and training films for the government, it faced a debt of $ 4.5 million (around $65 million today).