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January 4, 2015
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 1.4.2015

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.

Scroll down for domestic and overseas grosses for each film individually so far in 2014.

Studio YTD 2014 as of 2015 Jan 4

YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2014 is now running -6% behind last year (versus -7% through last week) and now -2% below the average for this point the past four years ($9.953 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed just under $24.9 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 1-52
North America Worldwide
2014 $9.725 $24.881 Jan 6-Jan 4
2013 $10.356 n/a Jan 7-Jan 5
2012 $10.150 n/a Jan 2-Dec 31
2011 $9.495 n/a Jan 3-Jan 1
2010 $9.812 n/a Jan 4-Jan 2

The past six weeks in North America are now down -13% from the same period last year (better than the -18% pace last week and the -15% two weeks ago) and now +2% above the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.300 billion).

North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS
(billions)  
2014 $1.322 since Nov 24
2013 $1.512 since Nov 25
2012 $1.276 since Nov 19
2011 $1.157 since Nov 21
2010 $1.256 since Nov 22

WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE.  

International 2014 through 2015 Jan 4



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.