THB #107: You Do The Box Office Analysis!
Come on… you do the work this week!
Take a good look at the charts (reconfigured from the utterly frustrating Website Formerly Known As Box Office Mojo).
Easy to see that there has been only one weekend this year that outgrossed, overall, the last non-COVID year of 2019.
Easy to see that almost every week (disregard the number this weekend, which will go up as more films are included by Mojo), the number of films in release were almost double or more than double the number released theatrically this year.
Easy to see that only the first 2 weekends of The Batman had a total domestic gross for the weekend of over $100 million while in 2019, only 1 weekend had a total domestic gross of less than $100 million in this period.
In the 2 $100m+ overall weekends, one movie represented more than 50% of the total domestic gross.
None of this is healthy for exhibition.
Okay… let’s move on to the weekend chart (via Mojo):
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