WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. The studio rankings remain unchanged, although Warner Brothers had a nice week ($141 million worldwide the past seven days thanks to the domestic debut of Dolphin Tale 2 and a good start overseas for the sequel). No other studio was over $100 million worldwide for the week, and most were well below that.
Scroll down for domestic and overseas grosses for each film individually so far in 2014.
YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2014 is still running -7% behind last year and -5% below the average for this point the past four years ($7.150 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $17.9 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office.
A reminder: we define the start of each year as the first Monday after New Year’s Day, and our year ends on the Sunday after New Year’s Day the following calendar year. (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.)
| Box Office YEAR TO DATE | |||
| (billions) | Weeks 1-36 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2014 | $6.779 | $17.860 | Jan 6-Sep 14 |
| 2013 | $7.305 | n/a | Jan 7-Sep 15 |
| 2012 | $7.261 | n/a | Jan 2-Sep 9 |
| 2011 | $6.920 | n/a | Jan 3-Sep 11 |
| 2010 | $7.115 | n/a | Jan 4-Sep 12 |
The past six weeks in North America are now -6% behind the same period last year (worse than the -2% pace last week and the -4% pace two weeks ago) and now -6% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.014 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2014 | $0.956 | since Aug 4 |
| 2013 | $1.012 | since Aug 5 |
| 2012 | $0.962 | since Jul 30 |
| 2011 | $1.071 | since Aug 1 |
| 2010 | $1.010 | since Aug 2 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. Dolphin Tale 2 enters the 2014 worldwide chart at #35, No Good Deed enters at #56 (with little prospects for much overseas business to lift that tanking), and The Drop starts at #83.
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