Avengers: Endgame back in April, and no other studio has been able to match them since then.
Summer is when most of the major tentpoles are released, and it's not just Disney who have been unveiling their biggest properties. Legendary and Warner Bros. teamed-up on both Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. But while a number of movies enjoyed varying degrees of success, none were able to keep pace with Disney.
Even if Disney's release slate had been limited to just Avengers: Endgame, they still would be able to claim being the winner of summer 2019. The movie grossed $2 billion in just 11 days, and a subsequent re-release saw Avengers: Endgame beat Avatar as the highest-grossing movie ever. It was an almost unprecedented success, but that goes for Disney's summer 2019 as a whole. It's no surprise that they enjoyed a lot of box-office success, given their ownership of so many big properties, but even by their usual standard, this was a huge summer.
The Lion King smashed a number of records to its current haul of $1.33 billion and counting.
That means all five of the highest-grossing movies of summer 2019 came from Disney, and they make up five of the top six box-office totals in 2019 so far too, with the other being Neither Aladdin nor The Lion King were well-received by critics, but that still didn't get in their way, with the Mouse House trampling over all of their competitors like a wildebeest stampede. Their other releases, meanwhile, mixed both critical and commercial success.
Of course, summer 2019, and likely will be for many more summers to come.
