What is Disney's Box Office Market Share?

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Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y--M-O-U-S-E!

Founded by brothers Roy & Walt in Los Angeles, CA in 1923, the club that is the Walt Disney Company (DIS) is now one of the most profitable media companies in the world, 2nd only to tech titan Apple (AAPL) whose founder Steve Jobs was at one time their largest single shareholder.

Nearly a century later, this club has grown far beyond its royal rodent and his anthropomorphic inner circle, now including the likes of both Alien AND Predator, a dozen Disney Princesses, 500 Muppets, 700 Marvel heroes, 21,647 fighters fighting in a Star War, 130 Academy Award statues, 335 Bachelor contestants (29% of whom have gone home on the first night) and even famed Khazakstani documentarian, Borat.

That's quite the packed house and thus, A LOT of packed theaters.

With enterprises in film, video, theme parks, cable and network television, cruise ships, toys, clothing, and other consumer products, Disney leads in the construction and promotion of U. S. popular culture– and yet, with a controversies section that has it's own page on Wikipedia, The House of Mouse is far from squeaky clean.

This week, the Wonder Newsroom set out to answer your toughest questions about the Walt Disney Company.

DISNEY, BY THE NUMBERS:

  • $205B is the total market cap of the Walt Disney Co. (Sept 2022)

    24 films have featured Mickey Mouse since 1928, the most of any Disney IP. (2nd place? The Pizza Planet Truck)

    59% of the lines in the movie Frozen, a story about sister princesses, are spoken by men.

    58M average annual visitors to Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.

Chris ConnorsDisney, streaming, Streaming Wars