UPDATE JAN 2: Walt Disney Studios breached the threshold in 2013 for the first time in history and grossed a confirmed $3.013bn for the calendar year.

In a record year for Disney that has delivered new marks for international, North America and worldwide box office, the global number finished on $4.732bn through January 1 2014.

En route to the company record $3.013bn annual haul, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International crossed $2bn for the fourth consecutive year in record time on August 22 2013, overtook the old record of $2.302bn set in 2010 on November 1 and crossed $3bn on December 31.

Marvel Studios' Iron Man 3 led the way and finished the year as the industry's number one film of the year on $806.3m internationally, number one in North America on $409m and number one worldwide on $1.215bn.

The international piece included including all-time industry box office marks in Malaysia and Vietnam, number two all-time milestones in Singapore and the Philippines, and record Disney grosses in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand.

Monsters University (pictured) amassed $476.4m outside North America to rank as the fourth biggest film of 2013 and took $744. …