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October 21, 2018
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 10.21.2018

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2018 film slates by studio. The studio totals also include 2018 dollars for films released in late 2017.

YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2018 to date is now +11% above last year and now +12% above the average for this point the past four years ($8.052 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $22.5 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s still basically even with the comparable worldwide box office last year at this stage and still +7% above 2016).

A reminder: we define the start of each year as the first Monday in January, 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.)  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 1-42
North America Worldwide
2018 $8.999 $22.511 Jan 1-Oct 21
2017 $8.125 $22.415 Jan 2-Oct 22
2016 $8.291 $21.015 Jan 4-Oct 23
2015 $8.107 $21.089 Jan 5-Oct 25
2014 $7.684 $20.002 Jan 6-Oct 26

 

The past six weeks in North America are now +24% above the same period last year and now +16% above the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($0.847 billion).

North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS
(billions)
2018 $0.980 since Sep 10
2017 $0.787 since Sep 11
2016 $0.779 since Sep 12
2015 $0.917 since Sep 14
2014 $0.904 since Sep 15

 

WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE.  Here is an updated look at the 2018 film rankings for movies released in over 1,000 North American theaters since January 1.

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.