WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studio.
BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2019 is still -5% below last year’s comparable span and now +1% above this point the past four years ($8.047 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $21.4 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office for those films. That’s now basically even with the comparable worldwide box office last year (1 point better than last week’s comparison) and now -1% below 2017 (also 1 point better than last week’s comparison).
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 1-40 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2019 | $8.099 | $21.426 | Jan 7-Oct 13 |
| 2018 | $8.493 | $21.475 | Jan 8-Oct 14 |
| 2017 | $7.868 | $21.652 | Jan 2-Oct 8 |
| 2016 | $8.012 | $20.313 | Jan 4-Oct 9 |
| 2015 | $7.815 | $20.285 | Jan 5-Oct 11 |
The past six weeks in North America are now +2% above the same period last year (1 point better than last week’s comparison) and now +6% above the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($0.843 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2019 | $0.957 | since Sep 2 |
| 2018 | $0.938 | since Sep 3 |
| 2017 | $0.805 | since Aug 28 |
| 2016 | $0.762 | since Aug 29 |
| 2015 | $0.866 | since Aug 31 |
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.
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