Recently, the foreign media "Variety" cited comscore statistics to show that the total box office in the North American market this year is about 8.58 billion U.S. dollars (61.3 billion yuan), which is the best year since the epidemic. It will be 7.46 billion U.S. dollars in 2022 and only 4.56 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. One hundred million U.S. dollars. However, there is still a big gap between this year’s figure and the tens of billions of dollars before the epidemic.
The top three box office hits in North America this year are "Barbie," "Super Mario Bros." and "Spider-Man: Across the Universe," and the top three box office hits globally are "Barbie," "Super Mario Bros." and "Oppenheimer."
"Variety" pointed out that in addition to the poor box office performance of many sequels, the North American market is not as big as before. The important reason is the decline in the number of film releases. Only 88 new films were released in theaters in North America this year, compared with 108 in 2019, with a total box office of $10.5 billion that year. Due to a strike by actors and writers, many blockbusters originally scheduled to be released in 2024 have been postponed, and the total box office is expected to drop to US$8 billion in 2024.
source/mtime time network
editor/Cui Wei
