Because of the epidemic, thousands of cinemas in North America have been dark for more than nine months, while reopened ones are operating at dramatically reduced capacity.
Euletide fuel in mid-December is usually a starting pad for holiday blockbusters. Not so this year, as Hollywood and theater owners face the current COVID-19 crisis and the nine-month virtualization of filmmaking, which will show the worst domestic ticket sales in at least four decades.
Case: There were no new wide-ranging releases at the North American box office this weekend, December 11-13. Universal and DreamWorks animation The Groots: A New Age For the third weekend in a row it topped the rankings with just $ 3.2 million – a real fortune during the epidemics – domestic total.5 24.5 million.
Preliminary estimates put North American movie ticket sales for $ 2.3 billion by 2020. This would have been the lowest scenario since the early 1980s, if not the late 1970s, before it adjusted to inflation. Box office tracking did not begin with enthusiasm until the early ’80s, so the raw material was complex, although the Motion Picture Association’s gross revenue reached $ 4 billion for the first time in 1984.
Currently, Comscore estimates that domestic revenue for 2020 will be around $ 2.2 billion. It ended about $ 11.4 billion, down about 80 percent from 2019.
Overseas ticket sales have raised about $ 9 billion for a full recovery in Asian markets, including China, Japan and South Korea. Last year, global ticket sales reached $ 42.5 billion; This time, it will be at least 70 percent lower.
Croats2, For example, has passed Mulan A total of $ 46 million in China. It holds the global total of the animated film as of Sunday .3 76.3 million.
Warners Bros. and Grandma Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984 Although it is the first Hollywood tent to be launched simultaneously in the United States on the streaming service (Erco, HBO Max) as well as in open theaters, it hopes to serve as a major year-end recovery mission.
The sequel to Superhero is set to return to the cast in a named role and theatrical release in major international markets on December 16 and December 18 in China. It was followed by the introduction of a Christmas Day in the United States, where – like many European countries – there are widespread cinema reforms due to the increase in COVID-19 cases. Currently, 36 percent of U.S. indoor cinemas operate in the United States, according to ComScore.
“As we go into the final two weeks of the most star-filled year in history, the industry is slowly moving downhill, which has unfortunately turned into a cinematic game of inches at the end of the year’s target post. .
“The silver lining in this playbook is that when a vaccine is widely rolled out and theaters reopen to normal, collaborative consumers will embrace the big screen experience, and the theater will face this very flexible and resilient business over the years to win a series of challenges again,” he continued.
Warner Bros. and its parent company WarnerMedia left Hollywood on December 3, announcing that it would shatter the theatrical widow and release its entire 2021 slate. In height, Sand And Suicide Squad 2 – Similar to HBO Max and theaters simultaneously Wonder Woman 1984.
In the summer, the Universal Exhibition angered the community, revealing that it had signed a major deal with AMC Theaters, allowing a new 17-day window for premium video-on-demand titles. Arrangements with Cinemark and Cineplex of Canada soon followed. Warners did not make any deals with the theater rounds before announcing its news.
Including, Universal’s titles Croats2 And a few films from the special label Focus feature have been gaining popularity in the box office rankings in recent weeks as other major Hollywood studios have been sidelined.
The main exception is the original tent of Christopher Nolan DenetIt hosted a traditional theatrical release of Warners in late summer and early September. (Denet Los Angeles and New York City, the two largest box office markets in the country, have never had a chance to play.)
Despite those obstacles, Denet Globally to date it has earned $ 3,362.3 million, of which $ 303.5 million is overseas and $ 57.8 million domestically.
Nolan, a staunch ally of the cinematic experience, took extraordinary action to blow up Warner Bros. and WarnerMedia for deciding to send the 2021 slate to HBO Max.
“Warner Bros. had an incredible machine to get a filmmaker’s job everywhere in theaters and at home. They remove it when we talk. They don’t even understand what they are missing out on,” Noland said in a statement. The Hollywood Reporter. “Their decision makes no economic sense, and even the most ordinary Wall Street investor can see the difference between disruption and failure.”
Top executives at Warner are expected to guarantee sustainable production for cinemas amid epidemics, which they believe will be extended until next year in terms of filming under the guidance of epidemiologists.