In 2024, the United States’ Magic Kingdom (Walt Disney World) was visited by over **** million people, making it the most visited amusement park worldwide. Meanwhile, the second most visited park was Disneyland in Anaheim California.

In the fiscal year ended on September 30, 2024, The Walt Disney Company generated a total revenue of more than ***** billion U.S. dollars, up from **** billion dollars a year earlier – an annual growth of around three percent.The Walt Disney Company reports its numbers based on fiscal years that end late September/early October of the corresponding calendar year. A media leviathan The Walt Disney Company controls several entertainment and media enterprises with a solid global presence. Arguably, its most famous facet remains Walt Disney Studios, which, as of late 2024, included benchmark companies such as **th Century Studios, Marvel, Pixar, and Searchlight. Despite a ** percent increase in box office revenue across the United States and Canada in 2024, that year's figure remained below the amount that Disney's studio division amassed in 2019, before the pandemic. Still, Disney alone accounted for a significant share of the box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada in 2024, driven by the success of "Frozen 2" and "Moana 2. Parks and recreation The holding is also known for its theme parks, which continued to bounce back from the coronavirus outbreak and its subsequent mobility restrictions. In 2023, the Magic Kingdom theme park, located at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, was the most visited Disney theme park location in the United States, with over **** million visitors. Similarly, The Walt Disney Company's net income remained far from pre-pandemic standards. The figure amounted to about **** billion dollars in the fiscal year 2024 – only a little more than one-third of the record-high ****-billion-dollar result seen in the fiscal year 2018.

Global entertainment empire, The Walt Disney Company, generated approximately **** billion U.S. dollars from its parks and resorts segment in 2018. This is the highest revenue the company has generated (in this segment) over the past 10 years. Disney is not a one trick pony Disney Parks, Experiences and Products is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company that is responsible for its parks and resorts segment. It is one of Disney’s four main business segments - the other three are media networks, cable networks and broadcasting. While parks and resorts earned the company a significant portion of its revenue, media networks ultimately came out on top, accounting for **** billion U.S. dollars in 2018. Popular theme park companies Spending time at amusement parks is a popular leisure activity among people all over the world, particularly families with children. The world’s leading theme park companies include Walt Disney Attractions, Universal Studios Theme Parks, and Merlin Entertainment. When ranked, ***** Disney parks were among the **** most attended theme parks worldwide in 2021.

As of 2022, De Efteling was the Netherlands’ most visited theme park with approximately *** million domestic and international visitors. De Uithof, an indoor sports center which also contains a large ice rink, had a little over **** million visitors, whereas Diergaarde Blijdorp, or Rotterdam Zoo as it is also known, attracted roughly **** visitors. Efteling, the most expensive theme park in the Netherlands An average day to a theme park for a family with children four years and older can get quite expensive. People who would like to visit the Efteling had to pay ** euros per person in 2022. Looking at ticket prices of selected water parks in Europe, visiting the Tiki Pool in Wassenaar, Netherlands would cost ** euros as of February 2022. Magic Kingdom most visited theme park worldwide Overall, Magic Kingdom in the United States attracted the most visitors in the world in 2021. As of that year, the Disney park in Orlando welcomed over ** seven million visitors in total. Prior to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2019, the park welcomed nearly ** million visitors.

As of November 2025, the most expensive production of all time was the seventh episode of the Star Wars movies, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," directed by J.J. Abrams. The movie was produced and financed by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot and cost approximately 533.2 million U.S. dollars to make. The movies "Avatar: The Way of Water," "Avengers: Endgame," and "Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning" each cost around 400 million U.S. dollars to produce. The (not so) hidden cost of a movie A high budget suggests that the studio behind the film believes the movie will be so profitable it will far surpass its pricey costs. But the figure covers only production-related costs. The largest film production companies often invest big sums of money in marketing to promote their new releases. The advertising expense of the Walt Disney Company, for instance, reached 6.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. Go big film budget or go home Similarly, Sony's annual advertising costs amounted to billions of dollars in the past few years. The Japanese holding company runs Columbia, one of the leading studios both in the United States and worldwide. Publicizing a big-budget movie may pay off. Many of the titles in this ranking are also among the world's highest-grossing films of all time, including "Avatar" (2009), "Avengers: Endgame" (2019), and "Titanic" (1997).

Disney+ has experienced remarkable growth since its launch in November 2019, reaching around 127.8 million global subscribers in the third quarter of 2025. The streaming service's rapid ascent is particularly noteworthy given that it took Netflix, the current market leader, about a decade to achieve similar customer numbers in a less competitive landscape. Disney's biggest streaming competitor Despite its impressive subscriber base, Disney+ faces stiff competition in the streaming market, particularly among younger viewers. As of October 2023, Netflix remained the most-watched subscription video-on-demand service among U.S. children, capturing 34 percent of the audience, with Disney+ following at 31 percent. To address profitability challenges and retain customers, Disney has implemented strategies such as introducing extra member pricing in various countries, with costs ranging from 3.58 U.S. dollars in Hong Kong to 6.67 U.S. dollars in Italy. Market adaptation In response to the evolving streaming landscape, Disney has adjusted its pricing strategy. In late 2024, the company once again increased its monthly subscription prices for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ in the United States. This move followed significant improvements in the provider's direct-to-consumer streaming segment, with operating losses decreasing substantially between 2022 and 2024. Disney's DTC entertainment business, for example, reported an income of about 143 million U.S. dollars in 2024 after years of making losses, demonstrating that Disney's efforts to achieve profitability seemed to have paid off.