WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2018 film slates by studio. The studio totals also include 2019 dollars for films released in late 2018. We will continue to track the 2018 slates until late February, when we will switch to tracking the 2019 slates.
BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2019 is now -26% below last year’s comparable span and now -23% below the average for this point the past four years ($1.177 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films almost $2.3 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office for those films (that’s -33% below the comparable worldwide box office last year and -23% below 2017).
Note: The 2019 worldwide box office is currently understated by $172.5 million because of overseas box office to date for How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, which has not yet opened domestically. Those overseas dollars will be realized in the 2019 total below when the film opens in the U.S. and Canada next week.
A reminder: we define the start of each year as the first Monday in January (except if that is New Year’s Day), and our year ends on the Sunday after New Year’s Day the following calendar year. The numbers in this chart contain box office grosses from each year’s films as well as grosses from prior year films that carried over into that year.
| Box Office YEAR TO DATE | |||
| (billions) | Weeks 1-6 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2019 | $0.901 | $2.276 | Jan 7-Feb 17 |
| 2018 | $1.220 | $3.408 | Jan 8-Feb 18 |
| 2017 | $1.173 | $2.958 | Jan 2-Feb 12 |
| 2016 | $1.147 | $2.754 | Jan 4-Feb 14 |
| 2015 | $1.170 | $3.204 | Jan 5-Feb 15 |
The past six weeks in North America are now -26% below the same period last year and still -23% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.177 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2019 | $0.901 | since Jan 7 |
| 2018 | $1.220 | since Jan 8 |
| 2017 | $1.173 | since Jan 2 |
| 2016 | $1.147 | since Jan 4 |
| 2015 | $1.170 | since Jan 5 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. Here is an updated look at the 2018 film rankings for movies released in over 1,000 North American theaters in the 2018 calendar year. We will continue to track 2019 dollars for these films until mid-February, and then we will transition to the 2019 film rankings.
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