North American movie box office sets record US$11.4B in 2016 [China still distant #2 with $6.58B]

[Hamartia Antidote]

http://www.thestar.com.my/business/...merican-movie-box-office-sets-record-in-2016/

NEW YORK: The North American movie box office raked in US$11.4 billion in 2016, making it the highest-earning year in history, according to box office tracker comScore.

Last year's total eclipsed the previous record of $11.14 billion in 2015.

The crop of blockbuster movies in 2016 was topped by "Finding Dory," which tallied $486.3 million in sales in the United States and Canada, comScore said.

The latest Star Wars movie, "Rogue One," finished the year in second place, but it was only released on Dec. 16 in the United States and continues to enjoy strong sales.

Disney had six of North America's top 10 grossing movies in 2016 and all of the top three, including "Captain America: Civil War," which took in $408 million, according to comScore.

"Forgetful fish, super-heroes, household pets and space travelers led the charge in a year that was marked by an incredibly diverse selection of films from every genre and of every size and scope from all the studios," comScore's senior media analyst, Paul Dergarabedian, said in a news release on Sunday.

Meanwhile Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" and "Sing" loomed large at the multiplexes over the New Year's holiday, racking up the biggest grosses and ringing out 2016 on a high note.

The Star Wars spinoff topped the box office for the third consecutive weekend, earning just under $50 million for the three-day period and a projected $64 million for the four-day holiday. The movie business is tacking Monday on to New Year's weekend, because many companies and schools are observing it as a national holiday. The weekend gross pushes the space opera over the $400 million mark domestically. It currently ranks as the year's second highest-grossing domestic release, with $425 million, behind only "Finding Dory."

"Rogue One" concludes a record-annihilating year for Disney. The studio became the first to top $7 billion in a single year, has fielded four of the five top grossing domestic releases, and should see four of its movies top $1 billion at the global box office.

 

[Skull and Bones]

2017 is going to be even more epic for Hollywood.

 

[oprih]

Figures for canada and usa are combined and counted as one

 

[my2cents]

Figures for canada and usa are combined and counted as one

I believe those are world wide box office collections of North American movies.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Figures for canada and usa are combined and counted as one

The split total isn't out yet but last year Canada was $700M. Assuming a similar number the US should still be well above $10B.

 

[jhungary]

I believe those are world wide box office collections of North American movies.

Those are domestic figure. World wide figure would have been somewhere about 30 billions. Top 12 movies in 2016 already top 11 billions world wide alone, and you have 65 movie doing more than 100 millions mark in 2016.

Top 65 movie have already earn 23 billions together.....

The split total isn't out yet but last year Canada was $700M. Assuming a similar number the US should still be well above $10B.

should have been less. Last year we have 5 films gross to billions point (Star War, Jurassic World, Avenger, Minion and FF7) this years we got only 3 (Captain America, Finding Dory and Zootorpia) and these three film gross no where near the 5 we had last year, in general, the box office gone down from 2015, so Candian box office should be less than 700 millions.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Disney is just killing it right now. There 2017 slate looks like this:

-Beauty and the Beast live action remake
- new Pirates of the Caribbean
- 2 Pixar films in Cars 3 and Coco
- 3 Marvel films: GOTG Vol 2, Spiderman: Homecoming, Thor:Ragnarok
- An to top it off Star Wars Episode 8

Disney is drowning in Benjamin's. They look well positioned to continue there dominance.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

should have been less. Last year we have 5 films gross to billions point (Star War, Jurassic World, Avenger, Minion and FF7) this years we got only 3 (Captain America, Finding Dory and Zootorpia) and these three film gross no where near the 5 we had last year, in general, the box office gone down from 2015, so Candian box office should be less than 700 millions.

Yes, it is odd that theater sales went up. We have had our discussions on how/why people don't go to the movies much anymore.

BTW Here are the top 5 in North America..oh boy kids cartoons!:
1 Finding Dory
2 Captain America: Civil War
3 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
4 The Secret Life of Pets
5 The Jungle Book

 

[my2cents]

Those are domestic figure. World wide figure would have been somewhere about 30 billions. Top 12 movies in 2016 already top 11 billions world wide alone, and you have 65 movie doing more than 100 millions mark in 2016.

Top 65 movie have already earn 23 billions together.....



should have been less. Last year we have 5 films gross to billions point (Star War, Jurassic World, Avenger, Minion and FF7) this years we got only 3 (Captain America, Finding Dory and Zootorpia) and these three film gross no where near the 5 we had last year, in general, the box office gone down from 2015, so Candian box office should be less than 700 millions.

These are amazing statistics that movies brings in so much revenue. Hollywood with its rich and talented people is tough act to beat.

 

[jhungary]

Yes, it is odd that theater sales went up. We have had our discussions on how/why people don't go to the movies much anymore.

BTW Here are the top 5 in North America..oh boy kids cartoons!:
1 Finding Dory
2 Captain America: Civil War
3 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
4 The Secret Life of Pets
5 The Jungle Book

Just check the Box Office Mojo site, we are average 40-45% dosmestic in 2016, while we are looking at a mere 30% in 2015. And the pie is a lot bigger than 2015 (as i said, the 5 movies that gross over 1 billions is no where close to the 3 movie we have this years)

I think there are a lot of factors affecting the movies goers I presume, and I would have categorize most of the 2015 block buster is not selling well domestically, and also, when you compare the detail figure, you can see ticket sell don't change much while the ticket price are 20 cents more expensive, hence the boost of box office from last year, Yet, we have yet to see the break thru we got like in 2002 or 2001.

But in all, movie sell within US/CA remain unchange, and yet internationally it grossed less hence the figure, I suppose.

These are amazing statistics that movies brings in so much revenue. Hollywood with its rich and talented people is tough act to beat.

Not all of them are Hollywood Movies, a few (7) of the top 65 is foreign, and they grossed very little Domestically, 2 movie are from China nearly have 0 gross domestically (Ip Man 3 and the Mermaid), otherwise the British or other Foreign flim (beside Bridget Jones Baby) have a more or less equal share.

You can catch the full list here

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2016