WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Year to date, Warner Brothers has moved well ahead of its competing studios, thanks to two bona fide hits to balance two strikeouts. Sony and Universal, the next level down each with around $450 million worldwide to date, has a similar hit and miss ratio to Warner Brothers, but the hits are just barely hits. Disney is now on the board with its first wide release of 2014 (Need for Speed), but the studio won’t really get going until Captain America: The Winter Soldier arrives April 4.
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 10% ahead of last year but now 1% below the average for the past four years ($1.690 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed more than $4.3 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 1-10 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2014 | $1.675 | $4.340 | Jan 6-Mar 16 |
| 2013 | $1.528 | n/a | Jan 7-Mar 17 |
| 2012 | $1.865 | n/a | Jan 2-Mar 11 |
| 2011 | $1.482 | n/a | Jan 3-Mar 13 |
| 2010 | $1.885 | n/a | Jan 4-Mar 14 |
The past six weeks in North America are now 10% ahead of the same period last year and now only 1% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($0.997 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2014 | $0.984 | Feb 3-Mar 16 |
| 2013 | $0.898 | Feb 4-Mar 17 |
| 2012 | $1.122 | Jan 30-Mar 11 |
| 2011 | $0.890 | Jan 31-Mar 13 |
| 2010 | $1.078 | Feb 1-Mar 14 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. Updated below.
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