‘Doctor Strange’ pushes the MCU past the DCEU at the 2016 global box office

Marvel Studios reigns supreme at the global box office for superhero movies. After locking up the genre’s highest grossing film—Captain America: Civil War—for the seventh year in a row, Marvel Studios now leads all superhero moviemakers in total box office revenue for 2016. In a very competitive year, Marvel was put over the top this past weekend by its latest hit, Doctor Strange.

This was a big year for superhero movies, especially for the genre’s three biggest players—20th Century Fox, Warner Bros./DC Films, and Marvel Studios. While there are a few smaller films that can also be attributed to the genre, the main competitors were responsible for six films this year, two entries in each studio’s shared universe.