In 2018, there were almost a thousand films released.
Disney + Fox put out 35 films; that's about 1.7% of all films.
Now, a lot of those films were small indie films. If we limit the list to films that made $5M or more, then there were 212 'major releases'. Disney + Fox accounts for 17% of all such films in 2018.
Disney seems to have a much higher profile than 17% of 'major films' simply because they make so much money. If Sony's pictures that year were all $1-2B blockbusters, then Sony would have cornered the majority of the Box Office that year. The solution to diluting Disney's outsized weight is for the other studios to make films that are as popular as Disney films.
Now, MGM, in the past decade, has only been averaging 3-4 films per year. Disney buying MGM would hardly move the needle on any sort of anti-trust laws.
Buying Sony: Sony put out 16 films in 2018 that made $5M or more. If Disney had owned Sony, then Disney would have had 51 of 212 films in that category. That would've been 24% of all films that made $5M or more in 2018.
Still far from a monopoly.
Film studios that put out at least 4 films in 2018 that made $5M or more:
- A24
- Bleeker Street Media
- Focus Features
- IMAX
- Lionsgate
- Paramount
- Screen Gems
- Sony
- STX Entertainment
- Universal
- Warner Bros.