WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Updated look at 2016 by studio.
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 ($7.371 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $19.7 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s +1% ahead of the comparable worldwide box office last year at this stage and 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 1-38 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2016 | $7.747 | $19.667 | Jan 4-Sep 25 |
| 2015 | $7.479 | $19.453 | Jan 5-Sep 27 |
| 2014 | $7.022 | $18.463 | Jan 6-Sep 28 |
| 2013 | $7.523 | n/a | Jan 7-Sep 29 |
| 2012 | $7.461 | n/a | Jan 2-Sep 23 |
The past six weeks in North America are up +15% from the same period last year (still a decent increase but lower than the +15% pace we saw last week and the +28% pace two weeks ago) and now +15% above the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($0.779 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2016 | $0.854 | since Aug 15 |
| 2015 | $0.814 | since Aug 17 |
| 2014 | $0.731 | since Aug 18 |
| 2013 | $0.791 | since Aug 19 |
| 2012 | $0.779 | since Aug 13 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. Here are the updated 2016 film rankings.
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