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January 19, 2020
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 1.19.2020

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studios (films entering wide release in the 2019 calendar year), including worldwide box office for those films during 2020. We will begin the track of the 2020 slate soon.

 

BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2020 is now +10% above last year’s comparable span but -7% below this point averaged over the past four years ($0.403 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $1.0 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office for those films. That’s +9% above the comparable worldwide box office last year but -12% below this point averaged over the past four years ($1.100 billion).

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 1-2
North America Worldwide
2020 $0.376 $0.964 Jan 6-Jan 19
2019 $0.342 $0.883 Jan 7-Jan 20
2018 $0.400 $1.332 Jan 8-Jan 21
2017 $0.439 $1.213 Jan 2-Jan 15
2016 $0.430 $0.972 Jan 4-Jan 17

 

The past six weeks in North America are now +10% below the same period last year (1 point better than last week’s comparison) and now -5% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.627 billion).

North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS
(billions)
2020 $1.538 since Dec 9
2019 $1.401 since Dec 10
2018 $1.777 since Dec 11
2017 $1.550 since Dec 5
2016 $1.780 since Dec 7

WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE.  Here is an updated look at the 2019 film rankings for movies released in over 1,000 North American theaters in the 2019 calendar year. We will begin the 2020 rankings soon.

PREVIOUS WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARDS

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.