Disney finally lost the top studio position this year!

For years Disney was the top earner among Hollywood, enjoying a dangerous amount of success to the point where there were rumours that the studio is trying to swallow up it's competitors and enforce a monopoly on the filmmaking business. Their dominance started in 2016 and there's a reason why The Mouse pushed the DEI stuff so hard, it has proven to be a really good strategy... until it wasn't

Covid was the first blow to Disney, causing them to lose the domestic crown to Sony in 2020, and they never managed to recover from it. It was during the lockdowns that the audience moved from eating up any shitty nostalgia bait movie to seeking out different types of movies, and it was after everyone recovered from covid that Disney's second favorite gimmick, put a minority in the movie to avoid criticism, started to grate on the public.

So now Universal moved in and pushed Disney off the pedestal