WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studio.
BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2019 is still -5% below last year’s comparable span and still basically even with this point the past four years ($7.738 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $20.5 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office for those films. That’s still -1% below the comparable worldwide box office last year and now -3% below 2017.
A reminder: we define the start of each year as the first Monday in January (except if that is New Year’s Day), and our year ends on the Sunday after New Year’s Day the following calendar year. The numbers in this chart contain box office grosses from each year’s films as well as grosses from prior year films that carried over into that year.
| Box Office YEAR TO DATE | |||
| (billions) | Weeks 1-38 | ||
| North America | Worldwide | ||
| 2019 | $7.728 | $20.457 | Jan 7-Sep 29 |
| 2018 | $8.097 | $20.602 | Jan 8-Sep 30 |
| 2017 | $7.630 | $21.003 | Jan 2-Sep 24 |
| 2016 | $7.746 | $19.666 | Jan 4-Sep 25 |
| 2015 | $7.479 | $19.453 | Jan 5-Sep 27 |
The past six weeks in North America is now +4% above the same period last year (2 points better than last week) and now +4% above the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($0.826 billion).
| North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | ||
| 2019 | $0.863 | since Aug 19 |
| 2018 | $0.827 | since Aug 20 |
| 2017 | $0.810 | since Aug 14 |
| 2016 | $0.854 | since Aug 15 |
| 2015 | $0.814 | since Aug 17 |
WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE. Here is an updated look at the 2019 film rankings for movies released in over 1,000 North American theaters in the 2019 calendar year.
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