U.S. Box-Office To Hit $9 Billion In 2025
12/31/2024 08:06 PM
The U.S. domestic box office is estimated to come in at a final figure of a little over $8.5 billion for 2024, down on the $8.9 billion haul of last year.
That’s far better than estimates earlier in the year which had it sitting at just $8 billion. EntTelligence adds that more than 680 million tickets were sold in 2024.
The outlook is rosier for 2025 as Deadline reports that analysts are estimating the overall box-office to do around $9 billion in 2025 – making it the best post-COVID year thus far but still far from the giddy heights of $11.8 billion in 2018.
At that time, 45 movies opened over $20 million at the box office with 35 grossing over $100 million domestically. This year, 34 movies opened over $20 million and just 22 crossed $100 million domestically.
One thing you’ll see more of next year – product. ComScore reports that 110 movies in 2025 will open in more than 2,000 theaters each – well above the 95 that did so in 2024. There’s also only three weekends currently with no wide releases – down from the six empty weekends 2024 started with.
Though some have decried how streaming and PVOD has removed the reason to go to a cinema, that’s not reflected in tentpole films with ample evidence of no sharp drop-offs in viewership at cinemas when PVOD releases for certain titles arrive.
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