by Ray Keating
News/Analysis
DisneyBizJournal.com
July 12, 2021
The Walt Disney Company announced today that Black Widow debuted over the weekend to the tune of $218 million. Disney noted that the film had “the largest domestic box office opening since the pandemic began and the largest domestic opening weekend since Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker in December 2019.”
Most interesting is the breakdown supplied by Disney, that is, “$80 million in domestic box office, $78 million in international box office and over $60 million in Disney+ Premier Access consumer spend globally.”
This is the first time that Disney has released numbers from its Disney+ Premier Access option. With the Premier Access priced at $29.99 (in addition to the Disney+ subscription), that means 2 million of the 103 million Disney+ subscribers paid to watch Black Widow. The $60 million from Disney+ subscribers accounted for nearly 28 percent of the total box-office take announced by Disney.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing to compare the Disney+ Black Widow revenues to since this is the first time that Disney has announced Premier Access revenues. There was no word regarding Mulan, Raya and the Last Dragon and Cruella. And no one knows if the company will continue to make such announcements in the future.
Obviously, though, Disney must have been very pleased with the Premier Access performance of Black Widow … and/or disappointed with previous efforts.
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