No changes in the studio rankings this week, the top two studios had enormous weeks (each around $250 million) from The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (Warner Brothers) and Frozen (Disney), with each film experiencing a significantly upgraded domestic total forecast and very big grosses overseas. For a complete ranking of 2013 films individually by worldwide performance click here.
TOTAL NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE. Looking at wide-release films in North America (those that play on at least 400 screens at some point), 2013 totals over $10 billion, now 1% behind last year’s pace but 5% above the prior four-year average 2009-2012 ($9.590 billion). Each year-to-date period below is defined as the first Monday after New Year’s Day through the most recent Sunday. The past week generated $382 million in wide-release North American box office, 35% above the 2009-2012 average for the same week ($283 million) but 3.5% below the same week last year ($396 million). (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.)
| North American Box Office YEAR TO DATE | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 1-51 | |
| 2013 | $10.055 | Jan 7-Dec 29 |
| 2012 | $10.150 | Jan 2-Dec 30 |
| 2011 | $9.139 | Jan 3-Dec 25 |
| 2010 | $9.469 | Jan 4-Dec 26 |
| 2009 | $9.603 | Jan 5-Dec 27 |
Over the past six weeks, 2013 is now 24% above the same six weeks in 2012 and 27% above the four-year average in the same time frame ($1.159 billion).
| North American Box Office LAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 47-51 | |
| 2013 | $1.467 | Nov 18-Dec 29 |
| 2012 | $1.276 | Nov 19-Dec 30 |
| 2011 | $1.044 | Nov 14-Dec 25 |
| 2010 | $1.129 | Nov 15-Dec 26 |
| 2009 | $1.282 | Nov 16-Dec 27 |
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