Warner Bros Becomes First Studio To Make $1 Billion in 2024

Warner Bros is still riding the Kenergy high, it appears, because the success of last summer's box office hit Barbie has set the studio on a trajectory of landing hit after hit at the box office.

Following Barbie's $1.4 billion success, the studio's big winter release, Wonka, scored a whopping $632.3 million at the global box office, and that momentum from 2023 has rolled on into 2024.

Warner Bros has already hit a combined total of $1 billion at the box office from its 2024 releases, doing so in just 15 weeks.

They are the first studio to reach that milestone this year, as per Film Updates.

So far this year, Warner Bros has released two successful sequels to films from their 2021 slate, a follow-up to Denis Villeneuve's Dune and the successor to Adam Wingard's Godzilla vs. Kong.

Dune: Part Two and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire are both currently in theaters, still raking in box office takings worldwide.

Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two is currently sitting at $683.9 million at the global box office, while Wingard's Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has scored $436.5 million. Combined, they have secured over $1.1 billion.

Warner Bros has more sequels, spin-offs and reboots on the slate this year.

First up is George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month ahead of its May 24 theatrical release.

Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road hit theaters in 2015, serving as a reboot of his Mad Max films from the 70s and 80s, and won six Oscars.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is another chapter of the Mad Max story.

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Warner Bros' summer blockbuster offering is Twisters, which is being marketed as "an update" to Jan de Bont's 1996 Twister, starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton.

Twisters will feature an ensemble cast of Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Maura Tierney, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack, Sasha Lane, Kiernan Shipka and Nik Dodani.

Then, later in the year, the studio will release Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, serving as a follow-up to Tim Burton's 1988 cult classic Beetlejuice, starring Michael Keaton and Catherine O'Hara. It will hit theaters on September 6.

Rounding out the year, Warner Bros will release Todd Phillips' Joker: Folie à Deux, a sequel to Phillips' two-time Oscar-winning Joker. Phoenix is joined, this time around, by Lady Gaga, who plays Harley Quinn.

Related: Joker 2 Trailer: First Preview of Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in New Film

Warner Bros does have some originals on its slate, too.

It will release Challengers this month, starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino.

Then, they have plans to release the feature debut of Ishana Shyamalan, The Watchers, which is expected in theaters this June.

Will the studio continue its box office success throughout the year? We'll see as the months unfold.