STUDIO SCORECARD. The worldwide studio rankings for 2013 to date remain the same as last week’s.
Reminder: the chart below has been reformatted and expanded to include a look at all releases from each studio, divided into three buckets: worldwide grosses of over $300 million, grosses between $100 million and $299 million, and films under $100 million worldwide.
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 nearly $7.1 billion, still ever so slightly ahead of 2012’s pace and 3% above the prior four-year average 2009-2012. ($6.844 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 typical $151 million in wide-release North American box office, up 4% from the same week last year and down 1% from the 2009-2012 average for the same week ($152 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 1-34 | |
| 2013 | $7.058 | Jan 7-Sep 1 |
| 2012 | $7.024 | Jan 2-Aug 26 |
| 2010 | $6.863 | Jan 4-Aug 29 |
| 2009 | $6.826 | Jan 5-Aug 30 |
| 2011 | $6.663 | Jan 3-Aug 28 |
Over the past six weeks, 2013 is now virtually equal to the same six weeks in 2012 and nearly identical to the four-year average in the same time frame ($1.258 billion).
| North American Box Office LAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 29-34 | |
| 2011 | $1.365 | July 18-Aug 28 |
| 2012 | $1.261 | July 16-Aug 26 |
| 2013 | $1.255 | July 22-Sep 1 |
| 2010 | $1.225 | July 19-Aug 29 |
| 2009 | $1.183 | July 20-Aug 30 |
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