STUDIO SCORECARD. No change in the studio worldwide box office rankings this week. Universal is extremely hot with the broad international appeal of Fast & Furious 6, but there is still about $500 million to go to catch #1 Disney. Fox, Paramount and Warner Brothers are very tightly bunched in the next tier.
Looking at wide-release films in North America (those that play on at least 400 screens at some point), 2013 now totals just over $3.7 billion, now down 7% from 2012 and down only 1% from 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 strong $262 million in wide-release North American box office, up 28% from the same week last year and up 10% 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 of the final weekend tallies.)
| North American Box Office YEAR TO DATE | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 1-21 | |
| 2012 | $3.991 | Jan 2-May 27 |
| 2010 | $3.754 | Jan 4-May 30 |
| 2009 | $3.738 | Jan 5-May 31 |
| 2013 | $3.701 | Jan 7-June 2 |
| 2011 | $3.474 | Jan 3-May 29 |
Over the past six weeks, 2013 is now 10% above the same six weeks in 2012 and up 16% from the four-year average in the same time frame.
| North American Box Office LAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 16-21 | |
| 2013 | $1.336 | Apr 22-June 2 |
| 2011 | $1.254 | Apr 18-May 29 |
| 2012 | $1.213 | Apr 16-May 27 |
| 2009 | $1.149 | Apr 20-May 31 |
| 2010 | $0.995 | Apr 19-May 30 |
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