2019 was a record year for global box office take. The US market was down 4.4% but still over $11bn, with a global $42.5 box office. Naturally the big 5 will try to play it safe with fare that can appeal so widely, though there were multiple $100m+ US takes from original, non-franchise movies like Tarantino's latest, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, alongside the glut of global billion dollar franchise hits.
Disney took a third of the US market, and the top 5 biggest hits, with its nearest rivals back on just 11%. Surely therefore 2020 will see a mega-merger of 2 of these? Universal buying Paramount perhaps?
See
https://variety.com/2020/film/box-office/box-office-us-misses-record-disney-dominates-1203453752/
