STUDIO SCORECARD. 20th Century Fox vaulted ahead of Paramount into fourth place in worldwide box office for 2013 to date, mostly because of The Wolverine. Universal and Warner Brothers remain a very close #2 and #3, respectively, with both studios grossing well over $100 million this past week (primarily from overseas grosses for Universal’s Despicable Me 2 and Warner Brothers’ Pacific Rim).
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 almost $6.1 billion, exactly matching 2012’s pace and still 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 $264 million in wide-release North American box office, down 13% from the same week last year but basically even (-1%) with 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 1-29 | |
| 2013 | $6.067 | Jan 7-July 28 |
| 2012 | $6.067 | Jan 2-July 22 |
| 2010 | $5.887 | Jan 4-July 25 |
| 2009 | $5.865 | Jan 5-July 26 |
| 2011 | $5.588 | Jan 3-July 24 |
Over the past six weeks, 2013 is now 13% above the same six weeks in 2012 and up 11% from the four-year average in the same time frame. Keep in mind the box office is starting to cool off, however, as the six-week average for 2013 was well over +20% above the other years as recently as a few weeks ago.
| North American Box Office LAST SIX WEEKS | ||
| (billions) | Weeks 24-29 | |
| 2013 | $1.875 | June 17-July 28 |
| 2010 | $1.734 | June 14-July 25 |
| 2009 | $1.686 | June 15-July 26 |
| 2011 | $1.660 | June 13-July 24 |
| 2012 | $1.654 | June 11-July 22 |
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