STUDIO SCORECARD. In the worldwide studio rankings for 2013 to date, Warner Brothers has moved back ahead of Universal in a very tight race for second place.
Reminder: the chart below has been reformatted and expanded to include a look at all releases from each studio, divided into three buckets: worldwide grosses of over $300 million, grosses between $100 million and $299 million, and films under $100 million worldwide.
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 now totals nearly $7.2 billion, still marginally ahead of 2012’s pace and 3% above the prior four-year average 2009-2012. ($6.977 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 a weak $129 million in wide-release North American box office, down 3% from the same week last year ($133 million) and down 3% from the 2009-2012 average for the same week ($133 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 1-35 | |
| 2013 | $7.192 | Jan 7-Sep 8 |
| 2012 | $7.157 | Jan 2-Sep 2 |
| 2010 | $6.998 | Jan 4-Sep 5 |
| 2009 | $6.954 | Jan 5-Sep 6 |
| 2011 | $6.799 | Jan 3-Sep 4 |
Over the past six weeks, 2013 is now 3% above the same six weeks in 2012 and a touch below (-1%) the four-year average in the same time frame ($1.125 billion).
| North American Box Office LAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 30-35 | |
| 2011 | $1.211 | July 25-Sep 4 |
| 2013 | $1.119 | July 29-Sep 8 |
| 2010 | $1.111 | July 26-Sep 5 |
| 2012 | $1.090 | July 23-Sep 2 |
| 2009 | $1.089 | July 27-Sep 6 |
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