2020 Worldwide Box Office Slumps 71% To $12.4B Amid Covid Impact: Strength Of International, Piracy Concerns & Hope Dominate 2021 Chatter – Global Studio Rankings Chart

Refresh for latest…: Disney/Pixar’s Soul got off to a jazzy start in Korea this weekend, debuting at No. 1 and seeing the second best bow for a non-local title since the Covid pandemic began. The Pete Docter-directed original also launched in Russia, at No. 1, and came in ahead of several pre-Covid animation openings. In total, Soul led the international box office with a $10.4M weekend from 13 markets. See more on Soul below.

As Open Road’s “The Marksman” enters its second weekend, the pandemic box office has seen its weekend totals fall below $10 million once again as only three films grossed more than $1 million. The Liam Neeson action film remains at No.

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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNorth American box office revenues in 2020 hit a 40-year low, struggling to reach $2.2 billion in total amid the coronavirus crisis. Movie theaters were forced to stay closed for a significant portion of the year beginning in late March and struggled to recover when some cinemas were able to reopen months later in August.That resulted in an 80% year-over-year decline from 2019, according to Comscore.

made a controversial bet to make “Wonder Woman,” which premiered in cinemas on Christmas Day, simultaneously available on its streaming service, HBO Max. The company also said it was putting its entire 2021 slate of films on HBO Max, in order to bolster the nascent service and appeal to housebound customers.

DC‘s 2019 film Joker has been crowned the UK’s biggest home movie of 2020.The sector grew 26 per cent last year, owing largely to the ongoing coronavirus lockdown, which saw cinemas shuttered across the country.Yesterday (January 5), it was revealed that the UK box office fell by 76 per cent across 2020, with Christopher Nolan’s Tenet the only film released after the initial March lockdown to make the top 10.xNew figures from the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) revealed that

The box office for the U.K. and Ireland —somewhat unsurprisingly —slumped by a record margin in 2020, down 76 percent from 2019.

coronavirus pandemic had huge effects on the film industry.The drop comes after five consecutive years of the box office topping £1.3billion, while 2020’s earnings came in at just £323m.The new report from Comscore revealed that revenues in the first three months of 2020 were up 20 per cent year on year, though fell dramatically when the UK’s first national lockdown was announced in late March.1917, released in January, was the top earner at the UK box office across 2020, with Christopher

Naman Ramachandran The early 2020 box office success of Sam Mendes’ “1917” was one of the few bright sparks in a U.K. and Ireland box office shattered by the impact of coronavirus, according to Comscore’s annual report.The report notes that after five consecutive years when the cinema box office for the territory exceeded £1.3 billion ($1.76 billion), widespread lockdowns in 2020 resulted in a 76% drop in revenues.

Rebecca Davis editorImported films accounted for only about a sixth of China’s total box office in 2020, a nearly 55% decrease year-on-year, industry data tracker Maoyan Entertainment said Monday.

Ever since the movie theater industry was gutted due to COVID-19, with many of the world’s cinemas being shut down in March until this fall, we’ve known 2020 was going to be a record bad year for the industry. But with the final 2020 box office numbers being reported, we can fully see just how the pandemic destroyed an industry.

Sony’s Will Smith sequel “ Bad Boys for Life ” has stayed in first place in North America since its January release with $206.3 million. Globally it’s in second place to the Chinese film “The Eight Hundred” — the first time that the top worldwide film originated outside of Hollywood.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe coronavirus outbreak caused a 72% slump in theatrical box office in Hong Kong last year. It also caused audiences in the city to embrace a more diverse selection of films, especially those from Asia.Hong Kong traditionally has one of the world’s highest per capita cinema attendance rates.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe New Year weekend rankings give a bizarre indication of the havoc currently being wreaked on the Korean box office by the coronavirus, audience caution and stay at home orders. For a start, a Hollywood title scored a rare victory.“Wonder Woman 1984,” the most recently released film of international significance, took the top spot for the second weekend.

It's official: North American box office revenue plummeted 80 percent in 2020 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic and unprecedented theater closures, while global revenue tumbled more than 70 percent. As predicted, domestic movie tickets sold between Jan.

Refresh for latest…: China was the big international box office winner this weekend with three local movies at the top of the chart and a New Year’s Day record set on Friday. That came just as it was confirmed the market led global box office for 2020, surpassing North America for the first time.