WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Strong overseas grosses for Captain America: The Winter Soldier continue to pad Disney’s lead over Warner Brothers in worldwide box office to date (Disney has $929 million compared to $861 million for Warner Brothers). Fox is next with $723 million, and Sony has pulled to over $600 million with Heaven Is for Real this weekend. to over $700 million worldwide in 2014. Paramount and Universal are in the next tier with just over $530 million each. Lionsgate/Summit is behind the majors with just under $400 million worldwide so far this year.
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 now running a healthy 10% ahead of last year and now 2% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.530 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed over $6.7 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 1-15 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2014 | $2.592 | $6.746 | Jan 6-Apr 20 |
| 2013 | $2.366 | n/a | Jan 7-Apr 21 |
| 2012 | $2.778 | n/a | Jan 2-Apr 15 |
| 2011 | $2.219 | n/a | Jan 3-Apr 17 |
| 2010 | $2.758 | n/a | Jan 4-Apr 18 |
The past six weeks in North America are now 8% ahead of the same period last year and now 6% above the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.001 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2014 | $1.065 | Mar 10-Apr 20 |
| 2013 | $0.984 | Mar 11-Apr 21 |
| 2012 | $1.082 | Mar 5-Apr 15 |
| 2011 | $0.884 | Mar 7-Apr 17 |
| 2010 | $1.055 | Mar 8-Apr 18 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. Updated below.
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