Is it fair to say Warner Bros(DC) has made more money over the years than Disney (Marvel)

Maybe

DC has made less than Marvel, if directly compared. Now, WB as a whole vs Disney? Thats tough. Disney has hands in almost all forms of entertainment, and now they own two of the worlds biggest franchises, not to mention the worlds most popular animation studio. I think Disney has probably made more.

Comic book sales has been pretty steady between the two lately the huge sales DC got in the begging has ben at a more reasonable level. However DC sales are still higher than before the reboot. Avengers is as far as I know the movie that has made most money in the history. In general Marvels movies has sold more than DC also been more. The there is Disney that in it self earns billions of money. Then both companies owns several TV networks and a lot of other products it is pretty hard to give any numbers on really.

Disney's reported revenue in 2012 was 42 billion

WB was 12 billion.

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What exactly do you mean? If you're only including Marvel Studios films compared to Warner Bros altogether, it's kinda unfair. If you mean Marvel and Disney films compared to Warner Bros films, that's also unfair...

He's saying Warner bros vs Disney

DC vs Marvel...

These companies make more a lot more movies than the ones you listed, you know.

I think in terms of company net worth overall, Disney has a much larger income, but if you mean just entertainment, WB (and Time Warner, which owns them) controls a larger market share than Disney

WB also made Pacific Rim... and we all know how well that did.

Disney is the one that's truly evil so they make more money.

42 billion?! Is this why I feel so bad every time I buy a marvel comic?

You realize how big Disney is right? Marvel studios is only a fraction of their income.

Not to mention ABC, ESPN, Disney World/Land, LucasFilm, etc...Disney >>>>>>> Warner Bros. in terms of financials. Disney is on par with Goldman Sachs, Coca-Cola, Merck, etc in terms of financially.

I knew they were bigger than WB. I didn't realize they were 42 billion big.

I highly doubt it. I mean,in terms of Disney??? Nope.

This.

I don't even like Disney.

When anyone actually means Warner its TimeWarner, whose revenue in 2012 was 29 bils, which was down from 2011 against Disney's rise in revenue from 2011.

In terms of movies only WB is the biggest studio in Hollywood, constantly coming at top 3 for the last 2 decades most of the time. Disney gets the edge because of its highly profitable Theme parks which WB has none.

In terms of assets, or total value of the company:

Disney = 74,000,000,000 (approx.)

TimeWarner = 50,000,000,000 (approx)

meaning that Disney is approx 33% bigger than TimeWarner

@rustyroy: I think the money from broadcasting and the movie studios dwarfs the money the parks make. ESPN paid $15.2B, for Monday Night Football over 10 years. I don't think they're dropping that kinda cash on 1 game a week if it doesn't pull in MAJOR advertising dough.

@night_thrasher: Yeah the Networking is a big factor but its the Theme parks that makes the difference, Warner can compete them in broadcasting and movies, but its the theme parks that Warner doesn't have an answer for, if you cancel out the theme park revenues then both of them are almost equal in terms of annual revenues, with Warner actually ahead of Disney in movies and games. Disney has this one thing that Warner doesn't and that is what always makes the difference.

Over the years, WB has probably made more money if you include inflation. WB has been a legit film studio since the beginning of Hollywood. Disney has only been legit for only 25-30 years (they were even on the brink of bankruptcy in the mid-80's), before that, they only made animated movies.

If we include Time Warner, then certainly yes. Time Warner has been a huge media company for decades, with WB network and studios, CBS, the Turner networks, CNN, Time Magazine, etc. That's why DC has always been more financially stable than Marvel who has had bad finiancial problems before the Disney acquisition.

WB is owned by Time Warner - 2012 revenue 28 billion

CBS is owned by National Amusments which is a private corp. They do however own the Turner Networks and Time Magazine. However, Time Magazine isn't very profitable. Most of the print magazines and newspapers are losing money and the ones that do make money aren't bringing in big bucks.

@night_thrasher: My mistake about CBS.

However, print used to be a huge industry. And since the thread title included 'over the years', I included that in Warner's favour.

Apparently Time Warner owns HBO, too.

I'm not really reading these comments, but all I can see as I'm scrolling down the page are numbers - numbers = math.

Please don't use math here.

in terms of comic book movies, DC/Warner. bros has made 2 or 3 billion dollars more than Marvel/Disney in total

@rustyroy: Dosen't WB have Six Flags?

@deathgorath444: No, they don't own Six Flags IIRC.

I don't even get all of this political BS.

What is this based on. Are you saying from every movie ever made by the studios, or is this just since the Disney acquisition? And are these numbers adjusted for inflation?

Nope

Marvel couldve bought DC way back in the day

@flameboy298 you can't compare Warner Bros to Marvel. If you want this to be a fair comparison, you need to compare Warner Bros to Disney.

With that said, let's compare the 15th highest grossing Disney movies worldwide, to 15 of Warner Bros:

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens: (2 billion)
2. Avengers: Infinity War: (2 billion)
3. Marvel's The Avengers:(1.5 billion)
4. Avengers: Age of Ultron: (1.4 billion)
5. Black Panther:(1.3 billion)
6. Star Wars: The Last Jedi: (1.3 billion)
7. Frozen:(1.2 billion)
8. Beauty and The Beast: (1.2 billion)
9. Incredibles 2: (1.2 billion)
10. Iron Man 3: (1.2 billion)
11. Captain America: Civil War: (1.1 billion)
12. Toy Story 3: (1 billion)
13. Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: (1 billion)
14. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: (1 billion)
15. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: (1 billion)

Total: 19.4 billion.

Now, Warner Bros's 15th highest grossing movies:

1. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part II: (1.3 billion)
2. Aquaman: (1.1 billion)
3. The Dark Knight Rises: (1 billion)
4. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: (1 billion)
5. The Dark Knight: (1 billion)
6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: (970 million)
7. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part I: (960 million)
8. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: (960 million)
9. The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies: (940 million)
10. Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix: (940 million)
11. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: (930 million)
12. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: (890 million)
13. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: (880 million)
14. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice: (870 million)
15. Inception: (830 million)

Total: 14.57 billion

Does that answer your question?

@kgb725: that has literally nothing to do with the question.

@theamazingspidey: nice job.

I’d expected a bigger gap between the two tbh.

@eto: It does. DC practically went bankrupt and Marvel turned them down

Disney owns Marvel, Lucasfilms, Pixar, and...Disney of course. Now include merchandising.

WB get's smoked.

Only in your dreams

Disney movies themselves probably solo all of those franchises.

Where's Lord of the Rings in that list?

@kevd4wg: WB didn't make LoTR. WingNut Films and The Saul Zaentz Company were the production companies for those movies, whereas New Line Cinema was responsible for the distribution.

Huh, interesting. Thanks for the info

You can literally Google this and the answer is a resounding no (since Disney's acquisition if Marvel that is).

Disney/Marvel/Fox merger is new so I'm not sure how you count it all ... the Warner Bros. Entertainment company is old, one of the oldest, they are the old family of Jewish and Europeans who started movie studios in California, they have been around a long time Don Juan, Looney Tunes Toons cartoons, The Jazz Singer, Post WW2 big movies, they might have had huge hits like the Potter films, Matrix, LOTR but in recent years its Marvel winning at the box office Spider-Man, Xmen, StarWars, Avengers are some of the biggest franchises, Disney/Marvel now owns it all with the buy out! the MCU combined has a total gross of 7,000 Billions yes Seven thousand Billions not millions BILLION, $6,930.9 Bil the Superman films are generally considered a financial disappointment or even failure, the one hastag # Metoo Weinstein-ish perv Bryan Singer directed with Kevin Spacey went totally over budget, Justice League earned less than expected.