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The 2023 home field workplace surpassed $9 billion, the best because the pandemic, Comscore mentioned. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless $2 billion in need of the yearly film ticket gross sales reached earlier than the pandemic.
Regardless of a tepid fall season on the field workplace, the viral “Barbenheimer” phenomenon delivered a shocking enhance to film ticket gross sales this yr. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” introduced in about $636 million domestically and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” raked in $326 million, in line with Field Workplace Mojo.
Comscore estimates that, as soon as the previous weekend’s field workplace numbers are in – which was led by “Wonka” – 2023’s complete will probably be simply over $9 billion. In comparison with 2019, the 2023 field workplace had 17 fewer large launch movies, which makes its numbers “all of the extra spectacular,” mentioned Paul Dergarabedian, chief Comscore media analyst. “Wonka” and “Barbie” have been each distributed by Warner Bros., which is owned by CNN’s dad or mum firm Warner Bros. Discovery.
“2023 was one of the crucial tumultuous, confounding and certainly thrilling years for the trade with audiences enthusiastically the moviegoing expertise and the movies on supply on the multiplex whereas delivering insights into what’s interesting and what’s not from their perspective as mirrored within the many sudden hits and misses in the course of the yr,” Dergarabedian mentioned.
Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless 20% lower than 2019 earnings, which introduced in $11.4 billion. That yr’s spotlight was “Avengers: Endgame,” which earned $858.4 million in ticket gross sales.
However in comparison with 2020, the peak of the pandemic, the home field workplace gross noticed an nearly 300% bounce, in line with knowledge from Comscore.
By early August, “Barbie” had made history with $1 billion in ticket sales, making Gerwig the primary solo feminine director to succeed in the milestone.
Barbenheimer introduced AMC Theaters, the world’s largest film chain, its largest single-week admissions revenue since the company’s founding in 1920. It was the busiest opening weekend because the pandemic pressured movie show to shut in 2020, primarily halting the trade.
And let’s not neglect the yr of Taylor Swift. The pop singer’s live performance movie, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” was the best grossing live performance movie domestically for a gap weekend, AMC mentioned in October. As of January 2, it’s introduced in additional than $179 million to the home field workplace.
Within the spring, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” delivered one of many first stellar field workplace performances of the yr. Almost one month after its spectacular opening weekend, the film yielded $1 billion on the world field workplace, the tenth animated movie in historical past to take action.
– CNN’s Eva Rothenberg contributed to this report.
Correction: A earlier model of this text misstated “Oppenheimer’s” home field workplace gross. It took in $326 million.