STUDIO SCORECARD. In the worldwide studio rankings for 2013 to date, only moderate changes for each studio. The biggest gainer this week was Paramount, which released a film from its tiny slate: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. However, it shows just how slow the box office environment is right now when a $93 million weekly gain is tops among the Hollywood studios.
TOTAL NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE. Looking at wide-release films in North America (those that play on at least 400 screens at some point), 2013 now totals over $8.0 billion, now behind 2012’s pace (by less than 1%) but still 2% above the prior four-year average 2009-2012 ($7.883 billion). Each year-to-date period below is defined as the first Monday after New Year’s Day through the most recent Sunday. The past week generated a very weak $122 million in wide-release North American box office, 19% below the 2009-2012 average for the same week ($151 million) and 23% below the same week last year ($158 million). (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.)
| North American Box Office YEAR TO DATE | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 1-42 | |
| 2013 | $8.068 | Jan 7-Oct 27 |
| 2012 | $8.085 | Jan 2-Oct 21 |
| 2011 | $7.675 | Jan 3-Oct 23 |
| 2010 | $7.889 | Jan 4-Oct 24 |
| 2009 | $7.884 | Jan 5-Oct 25 |
Over the past six weeks, 2013 has fallen to 7% below the same six weeks in 2012 and is now 3% below the four-year average in the same time frame ($0.788 billion).
| North American Box Office LAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 37-42 | |
| 2013 | $0.763 | Sep 16-Oct 27 |
| 2012 | $0.824 | Sep 10-Oct 21 |
| 2011 | $0.756 | Sep 12-Oct 23 |
| 2010 | $0.774 | Sep 13-Oct 24 |
| 2009 | $0.798 | Sep 14-Oct 25 |
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