WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2020 film slates by studios (films entering wide release in the 2020 calendar year).
BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2020 is now +5% above last year’s comparable span but -15% below this point averaged over the past four years ($1.497 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $3.3 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office for those films. That’s +1% above the comparable worldwide box office last year but -16% below this point averaged over the past four years ($3.916 billion).
A reminder: we define the start of each year as the first Monday in January (except if that is New Year’s Day), and our year ends on the Sunday after New Year’s Day the following calendar year. 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 1-8 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2020 | $1.273 | $3.284 | Jan 6-Mar 1 |
| 2019 | $1.208 | $3.237 | Jan 7-Mar 3 |
| 2018 | $1.719 | $4.460 | Jan 8-Mar 4 |
| 2017 | $1.560 | $4.394 | Jan 2-Feb 26 |
| 2016 | $1.503 | $3.572 | Jan 4-Feb 28 |
The past six weeks in North America are now +3% below the same period last year (6 points worse than last week’s comparison) and now -19% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.094 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2020 | $0.891 | since Jan 20 |
| 2019 | $0.866 | since Jan 21 |
| 2018 | $1.319 | since Jan 22 |
| 2017 | $1.121 | since Jan 16 |
| 2016 | $1.073 | since Jan 18 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. Here is an updated look at the 2020 film rankings for movies released in over 1,000 North American theaters in the 2020 calendar year. Films like 1917 and Parasite were in limited released in 2019 but did not reach wide release until 2020.
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