Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 9.7.2014

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WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  The studio rankings remain unchanged, and the most noteworthy change is that Universal now boasts a film in the $300+ million worldwide box (Lucy with $126 million domestic and $192 million overseas to date).  But the success of Lucy cannot make up for an excess of clunkers, as Universal is showing a hit-to-miss ratio even worse than Sony’s normally bottom-heavy slate.

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 still running -7% behind last year and -5% below the average for this point the past four years ($7.036 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed just under $17.5 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.)

The past six weeks in North America are now only -2% behind the same period last year (better than the -4% pace last week and the -11% pace three weeks ago) and now -3% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.132 billion).

WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE.  The Identical enters the 2014 worldwide chart at #90 in the unenviable DFL position (dead effin last), and its hard to imagine another wide release film this year displacing it from the cellar of ignominy.