WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. A huge weekend for Warner Brothers, pushes the studio back into a secure second place among the Hollywood studios.
Scroll down for domestic and overseas grosses for each film individually so far in 2014.
YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2014 is still running -6% behind last year and now -3% below the average for this point the past four years ($9.355 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $23.7 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 1-50 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2014 | $9.051 | $23.667 | Jan 6-Dec 21 |
| 2013 | $9.672 | n/a | Jan 7-Dec 22 |
| 2012 | $9.599 | n/a | Jan 2-Dec 16 |
| 2011 | $8.928 | n/a | Jan 3-Dec 18 |
| 2010 | $9.219 | n/a | Jan 4-Dec 19 |
The past six weeks in North America are now down -15% from the same period last year (about the same as the -16% pace last week and worse than the -12% pace two weeks ago) and now -6% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.129 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2014 | $1.065 | since Nov 10 |
| 2013 | $1.254 | since Nov 11 |
| 2012 | $1.231 | since Nov 5 |
| 2011 | $0.992 | since Nov 7 |
| 2010 | $1.039 | since Nov 8 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies enters the 2014 worldwide chart at #13 (with a lot more overseas box office to come, enough to push it well into the top five films). Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb joins the chart at #54 (with more overseas revenue to come). Annie joins the chart at #61 (close to where it will stay because of very limited overseas potential).
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