WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Paramount again had the biggest week of all the major studios (up $177 million worldwide since last week) exclusively because of continued overseas grosses for Transformers: Age of Extinction. For the year to date, Paramount is up to $1.25 billion worldwide (still in 5th place among the Hollywood studios). Warner Brothers had the next biggest week ($110 million worldwide) thanks to the underwhelming domestic debut of Tammy and some continued overseas business for Edge of Tomorrow. Warner Brothers is now up to $1.99 billion worldwide, still at #2 behind the #1 2oth Century Fox (currently $2.41 billion worldwide and ready to go into a fifth gear next week with the release of Dawn of Planet of the Apes). Sony ($1.71 billion worldwide year to date) edged past Disney ($1.70 billion) to retake 3rd place in their see-saw battle.
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 5% behind last year and now 2% below the average for this point the past four years ($5.026 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $12.9 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 1-26 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2014 | $4.937 | $12.892 | Jan 6-Jul 6 |
| 2013 | $5.221 | n/a | Jan 7-Jul 7 |
| 2012 | $5.129 | n/a | Jan 2-Jul 1 |
| 2011 | $4.704 | n/a | Jan 3-Jul 3 |
| 2010 | $5.049 | n/a | Jan 4-Jul 4 |
The past six weeks in North America are now -21% behind the same period last year and 8% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.538 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2014 | $1.408 | May 26-Jul 6 |
| 2013 | $1.782 | May 27-Jul 7 |
| 2012 | $1.343 | May 21-Jul 1 |
| 2011 | $1.530 | May 23-Jul 3 |
| 2010 | $1.498 | May 24-Jul 4 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. Opening this week, Tammy enters the chart at #37 with little potential for overseas business to lift it significantly in the ranking. Deliver Us From Evil enters at #54 and Earth to Echo joins the list at #56, both about where they will stay. The political documentary America joins the list at #69, dead last among 2014 wide releases. What a clunker of a summer weekend.
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