Year to Date Box Office & Studio Scorecard

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STUDIO SCORECARD. No change in the year-to-date studio rankings this week, the midpoint of the year. 20th Century Fox was up $133 million from last week mainly thanks to the domestic release of The Heat. Warner Brothers had a similar $129 million weekly gain, mostly because of international gains by Man of Steel.  Disney and Paramount were a notch below, with each studio increasing a little over $100 million this past week due to overseas growth for Monsters University and World War Z, respectively.  Paramount is in a virtual tie with Universal currently, although Universal will distance itself comfortably from Paramount and begin to challenge Warner Brothers this week when Despicable Me 2 opens.

TOTAL NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE. Looking at wide-release films in North America (those that play on at least 400 screens at some point), 2013 now totals just over $4.8 billion, now only 0.3% below 2012 and 3% above the prior four-year average 2009-2012. Each year-to-date period below is defined as the first Monday after New Year’s Day through the most recent Sunday. The past week generated a very strong $299 million in wide-release North American box office, up 38% from the same week last year and up 9% from the 2009-2012 average for the same week. (The most recent week’s numbers are based on weekend estimates, which are usually at worst a couple of percentage points off from the final weekend tallies.)

Over the past six weeks, 2013 is now 37% above the same six weeks in 2012 and up 23% from the four-year average in the same time frame.