STUDIO SCORECARD. In the worldwide studio rankings for 2013 to date, Sony moved ahead of Paramount (taking over 5th place) with $70 million of revenue this week (from continued overseas revenues from Mortal Instruments, White House Down and Smurfs 2). Warner Brothers had an even better week ($76 million, mostly from overseas grosses for We’re the Millers and The Conjuring), increasing its lead over Universal and positioning it even closer to Disney.
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 $7.3 billion, now 1% ahead of 2012’s pace and 3% above the prior four-year average 2009-2012. ($7.095 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 an okay $113 million in wide-release North American box office, up 9% from the same week last year ($104 million) and down 4% from the 2009-2012 average for the same week ($118 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 1-36 | |
| 2013 | $7.304 | Jan 7-Sep 15 |
| 2012 | $7.261 | Jan 2-Sep 9 |
| 2010 | $7.115 | Jan 4-Sep 12 |
| 2009 | $7.086 | Jan 5-Sep 13 |
| 2011 | $6.920 | Jan 3-Sep 11 |
Over the past six weeks, 2013 is now 5% above the same six weeks in 2012 and a touch below (-1%) the four-year average in the same time frame ($1.017 billion).
| North American Box Office LAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 31-36 | |
| 2011 | $1.071 | July 25-Sep 11 |
| 2009 | $1.026 | Aug 3-Sep 13 |
| 2013 | $1.012 | Aug 5-Sep 15 |
| 2010 | $1.010 | Aug 2-Sep 12 |
| 2012 | $0.962 | July 30-Sep 9 |
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