10 Films That Could Join The Billion-Dollar Club In 2016

10. The Jungle Book

It’s easy to forget that initial reactions to Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book when the first trailer dropped last September were… mixed. For every enthusiastic online comment, another could be found questioning its darker tone and CGI in need of a polish, not to mention the usual (entirely understandable) rumblings of discontent over a Hollywood machine in dire need of fresh input.

But even Disney – a studio currently enjoying a purple patch its competitors can only envy and admire from afar – can’t have anticipated quite how well received their new take on an old classic would be. A near-faultless Rotten Tomatoes score precipitated resounding ticket sales across the globe, with India – the film’s setting – enjoying record attendances that quickly saw The Jungle Book generate more revenue than any non-Bollywood film before it.

A current worldwide gross of $832 million as the movie nears the end of its cinematic run strongly suggests a billion-dollar take will remain out of reach, but not totally unlikely as The Jungle Book still managed to outperform every film bar Captain America: Civil War in the U.S. last weekend.

Still, with the two afore-mentioned films and smash hit Zootopia already out of the gates in 2016, Disney can look forward to a year that looks set to scorch every record in sight.