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August 28, 2016
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 8.26-28.2016

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WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 by studio.

Studio YTD 2016 as of 2016 Aug 28

 

YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is still +4% above last year and still +5% above the average for this point the past four years ($6.905 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $18.3 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s now +1% ahead of the comparable worldwide box office last year at this stage and still  ahead of 2014 by +7%).

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 1-34
North America Worldwide
2016 $7.231 $18.332 Jan 4-Aug 28
2015 $6.950 $18.111 Jan 5-Aug 30
2014 $6.582 $17.054 Jan 6-Aug 31
2013 $7.063 n/a Jan 7-Sep 1
2012 $7.024 n/a Jan 2-Aug 26

The past six weeks in North America are now up a very big +27% from the same period last year (even better than the +21% pace we saw last week and the +19% pace two weeks ago) and now +18% above the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.215 billion).

North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS
(billions)  
2016 $1.438 since July 18
2015 $1.129 since July 20
2014 $1.209 since July 21
2013 $1.260 since July 22
2012 $1.261 since July 16

 

WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE.  Here are the updated 2016 film rankings.

International 2016 through 2016 Aug 28

 

 

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.