Despite the best efforts of Spider-Man, Black Widow and other mighty Avengers, movie theaters have yet to rebound in another topsy-turvy, pandemic-battered year.revenues in 2021 are projected to hit $4.4 billion through the final days of December. The final number could fluctuate in the next few days; the stretch between Christmas to New Year’s is usually the busiest time at multiplexes, but the rapidly spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 may have other plans.
Next to 2019, the last normal period at the domestic box office, revenues from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2021 will be down approximately 61%. In 2019, “Avengers: Endgame,” “The Lion King” and “Toy Story 4” helped propel overall grosses to a mighty $11.39 billion. By comparison, the 2020 domestic box office tally was down 80% from 2019.
Still, there were a few scattered success stories that didn’t involve comic-books, like Daniel Craig’s James Bond sequel “No Time to Die” , Universal’s “F9: The Fast Saga” , “A Quiet Place Part II” and the Ryan Reynolds sci-fi action comedy “Free Guy” . But ultimately, not one, but two new variants of COVID-19 managed to spread across the globe and contribute to general uneasiness about going to the movies.
Ticket sales were already a 30 year low in 2019 as with US admissions at similar levels as in the 90s with ticket inflation responsible for BO increases since and industry average of $9.18 about half most paid to see Spider-Man in standard theatres and a third less than IMAX
In 2019 the top 10 films took $4.4bn will be about the same as the 2021 total US BO with a third ($1.5bn) from the top 5 comic-book movies compared to 19% ($2.25bn) in 2019
All of WB's slate moved to HBO Max simultaneously and Paramount moved almost all of their slate. Oh and how many theaters reopened midway through the year or later? Considering that, this year was pretty good!
Even if everyone had just decided to ignore it, we're still in the middle of a damn pandemic.
I feel like this is a half truth johncampea . 2019 by itslef was a huge year. Shouldnt be the bar to beat
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