WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. 20th Century Fox has pushed past $2.9 billion worldwide in 2014 to date, as Dawn of the Planet of the Apes gets rolling overseas. Paramount is the other studio with more than $100 million this past week (thanks to continued strong overseas receipts for Transformers: Age of Extinction) now past $1.5 billion worldwide for the year to date.
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 -8% behind last year and now -5% below the average for this point the past four years ($5.626 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed over $13.9 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 1-28 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2014 | $5.359 | $13.957 | Jan 6-Jul 20 |
| 2013 | $5.803 | n/a | Jan 7-Jul 21 |
| 2012 | $5.764 | n/a | Jan 2-Jul 15 |
| 2011 | $5.299 | n/a | Jan 3-Jul 17 |
| 2010 | $5.637 | n/a | Jan 4-Jul 18 |
The past six weeks in North America are now -28% behind the same period last year and -19% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.677 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2014 | $1.366 | since Jun 9 |
| 2013 | $1.892 | since Jun 10 |
| 2012 | $1.561 | since Jun 4 |
| 2011 | $1.573 | since Jun 6 |
| 2010 | $1.683 | since Jun 7 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. This weekend’s openers enter the worldwide chart in the middle of the pack: The Purge: Anarchy at #37, Planes: Fire & Rescue at #40 and Sex Tape at #46. None of the three will do enough overseas business to make a huge difference in their ranking. Transformers: Age of Extinction is now a solid #1 for the year, closing in on $1 billion worldwide. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes should break into the top 10 next week.
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