STUDIO SCORECARD. The worldwide studio rankings for 2013 to date remain the same as last week’s. The anomalous weekly decline (down $8 million) for 20th Century Fox is a function of some downward revisions of some domestic final tallies.
Reminder: the chart below has been reformatted and expanded to include a look at all releases from each studio, divided into three buckets: worldwide grosses of over $300 million, grosses between $100 million and $299 million, and films under $100 million worldwide.
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 over $6.9 billion, ever so slightly ahead of 2012’s pace and now 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 soft $174 million in wide-release North American box office, down 11% from the same week last year and down 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 off from the final weekend tallies.)
| North American Box Office YEAR TO DATE | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 1-33 | |
| 2013 | $6.906 | Jan 7-Aug 25 |
| 2012 | $6.878 | Jan 2-Aug 19 |
| 2010 | $6.705 | Jan 4-Aug 22 |
| 2009 | $6.659 | Jan 5-Aug 23 |
| 2011 | $6.525 | Jan 3-Aug 21 |
Over the past six weeks, 2013 is now only 1% above the same six weeks in 2012 and even with the four-year average in the same time frame.
| North American Box Office LAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 28-33 | |
| 2011 | $1.557 | July 27-Aug 21 |
| 2013 | $1.388 | July 15-Aug 25 |
| 2012 | $1.369 | July 9-Aug 19 |
| 2010 | $1.334 | July 12-Aug 22 |
| 2009 | $1.322 | July 13-Aug 23 |
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