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February 23, 2020
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 2.23.2020

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2020 film slates by studios (films entering wide release in the 2020 calendar year).

BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2020 is now +9% above last year’s comparable span but -13% below this point averaged over the past four years ($1.337 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $2.9 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office for those films. That’s +4% above the comparable worldwide box office last year but -17% below this point averaged over the past four years ($3.498 billion).

A reminder: we define the start of each year as the first Monday in January (except if that is New Year’s Day), and our year ends on the Sunday after New Year’s Day the following calendar year. The numbers in this chart contain box office grosses from each year’s films as well as grosses from prior year films that carried over into that year.

Box Office YEAR TO DATE
(billions) Weeks 1-7
North America Worldwide
2020 $1.169 $2.902 Jan 6-Feb 23
2019 $1.072 $2.788 Jan 7-Feb 24
2018 $1.533 $4.063 Jan 8-Feb 25
2017 $1.381 $3.888 Jan 2-Feb 19
2016 $1.364 $3.253 Jan 4-Feb 21

 

The past six weeks in North America are now +9% below the same period last year (5 points worse than last week’s comparison) and now -12% below the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.128 billion).

North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS
(billions)
2020 $0.992 since Jan 13
2019 $0.907 since Jan 14
2018 $1.327 since Jan 15
2017 $1.132 since Jan 9
2016 $1.145 since Jan 11

WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE.  Here is an updated look at the 2020 film rankings for movies released in over 1,000 North American theaters in the 2020 calendar year. Films like 1917 and Parasite were in limited released in 2019 but did not reach wide release until 2020.

PREVIOUS WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARDS

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.