STUDIO SCORECARD. The race for second place is very interesting thanks to The Conjuring, which puts Warner Brothers very much on Universal’s heels for year to date worldwide box office. Fox also had a reasonably good week, getting it closer to fourth-place Paramount for the year.
If the studios were divided into geographic leagues, the Valley League (Disney, Universal and Warner Brothers) would be absolutely trouncing the Westside League (Fox, Paramount, Sony and Summit) — $6.61 billion to $4.49 billion year to date.
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 virtually $5.8 billion, 1% ahead of 2012 and 4% above the prior four-year average 2009-2012. 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 an okay $282 million in wide-release North American box office, up 11% from the same week last year but down a touch (-2%) from the 2009-2012 average for the same week. (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 1-28 | |
| 2013 | $5.799 | Jan 7-July 21 |
| 2012 | $5.764 | Jan 2-July 15 |
| 2009 | $5.643 | Jan 5-July 19 |
| 2010 | $5.637 | Jan 4-July 18 |
| 2011 | $5.299 | Jan 3-July 17 |
Over the past six weeks, 2013 is now 21% above the same six weeks in 2012 and up 16% from the four-year average in the same time frame.
| North American Box Office LAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 23-28 | |
| 2013 | $1.888 | June 10-July 21 |
| 2010 | $1.683 | June 7-July 18 |
| 2009 | $1.674 | June 8-July 19 |
| 2011 | $1.573 | June 6-July 17 |
| 2012 | $1.561 | June 4-July 15 |
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