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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 5.1.2016

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WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 by studio.

Studio YTD 2016 as of 2016 May 01

 

YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is now +2% above last year and now +6% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.948 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $8.1 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s now -6% below the comparable worldwide box office last year at this stage but ahead of 2014 by +3%).

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.) 

Box Office YEAR TO DATE
(billions) Weeks 1-17
North America Worldwide
2016 $3.125 $8.130 Jan 4-May 1
2015 $3.071 $8.613 Jan 5-May 3
2014 $2.927 $7.869 Jan 6-May 4
2013 $2.718 n/a Jan 7-May 5
2012 $3.076 n/a Jan 2-Apr 29

The past six weeks in North America are now down -6% from the same period last year (worse than the pace from recent weeks: +6% pace last week and +3% pace two weeks ago) and now a small +1% above the four-year average for the similar six-week period ($1.087 billion).

North American Box Office PAST SIX WEEKS
(billions)  
2016 $1.101 since Mar 21
2015 $1.169 since Mar 23
2014 $1.092 since Mar 24
2013 $1.026 since Mar 25
2012 $1.061 since Mar 19

 

WORLDWIDE GROSSES BY FILM TITLE.  Here are the updated 2016 film rankings.

International 2016 through 2016 May 01

 

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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.