I created this chart in Microsoft Excel, using data from this source: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/
Please note, 2024 entry is year-to-date.
Overlay with streaming earnings.
inflation adjusted? wish it would just be measured on box office tickets sold.
Billions of what?
Dollars, butts in seats, buckets of popcorn?
Given that there appears to be a “new normal” after the pandemic, it seems like the pandemic had a non-transitory effect. It accelerated some kind of change that was due or coming. Interesting data.
3d bar charts on r/dataisbeautiful/?
I love that covid gave us loads of charts where 2020 just sticks out like a sore thumb.
Who wants to risk a crazy gunman and exposure to other’s viruses and constant chatter ? Everyone can afford a large screen and stream almost anything now.
Surprised, it increased until 2019. Here in Germany it decreased every year since 2008 and is now only half of what it was back then.
Specify units (understood as $)
Get rid 3d nonsense. Never do this
2024 not a complete year. Either don’t include it OR add some adjustment to show likely outcome of full year (as is – it looks like a sharp counter-trend drop). At minimum: note it (as incomplete year) under graph
Consider inflation adjustment
Consider companion graphic that investigates if it was ticket prices going up or seats sold driving pre-covid increases
I’m gonna wager the completion of the Avengers saga is a bigger contributor to poor returns than the pandemic was. That thing f’d up some folks’ preferences.
If the results aren’t all using the same inflation adjusted dollar, this is crap
Missing 1/12th of 2024s data
Avengers Endgame really was the end of an era.
2023 was hard carried by Avatar 2 and Barbenheimer, that year is an outlier and 2022/2024 are the new normal
Make sense. When I get an itch to watch a movie i just fire netflix or something and it gets the job done 80% of the time.
I only go to the movies when its something I want to watch now. Used to go just as an activity and watch whatever is on
What this doesn’t tell you about the taste industry is what they make off concessions. The margin on soda and popcorn must be huge. Have theaters been able to make up for reduced ticket sales ~~prices~~ with food?
Not a very good chart. It’s vague and the graph design is lacking.
This is what happens when studios make movies for China lmao
I’m honestly surprised it’s recovered that much. I know very few people who bother with theater over streaming these days.
The reality is that this chart almost certainly aligns well with a second chart indicating “high-profile movies rated 7.5 or higher.”
I’ve seen about two movies per year since the end of the main Marvel story arc. That’s not on me. It’s just been that dry.
Besides an unfinished 2024 data, 2024 probably would have been higher if the writers strike didn’t happen and the current crop of movies being so dull and not worth going to the theaters. Of course that’s just my opinion.
Maybe if they made some decent original movies I’d go. I’m not going to see Fast & Furious 17 Fast and Furriest
Interesting data but ugly
I’d love to see this data if you removed Star Wars and Marvel movies.
Both of those franchises were hitting regularly pre pandemic and have not really found success post pandemic.
How much is an overall contraction of movies and how much is just these two franchises?
It’s almost like people suddenly discovered that going to theaters wasn’t good use of their money. I wonder why that is.
I don’t know if it is just me getting old and bitter and having less free time, but there is nothing worth watching anymore. The past decade has been capeshit, reboots and sequels.
![USA Domestic Theatrical Box Office by year [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pcw4lkp6i24e1-1920x1024.png)
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I created this chart in Microsoft Excel, using data from this source: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/
Please note, 2024 entry is year-to-date.
Overlay with streaming earnings.
inflation adjusted? wish it would just be measured on box office tickets sold.
Billions of what?
Dollars, butts in seats, buckets of popcorn?
Given that there appears to be a “new normal” after the pandemic, it seems like the pandemic had a non-transitory effect. It accelerated some kind of change that was due or coming. Interesting data.
3d bar charts on r/dataisbeautiful/?
I love that covid gave us loads of charts where 2020 just sticks out like a sore thumb.
Who wants to risk a crazy gunman and exposure to other’s viruses and constant chatter ? Everyone can afford a large screen and stream almost anything now.
Surprised, it increased until 2019. Here in Germany it decreased every year since 2008 and is now only half of what it was back then.
Specify units (understood as $)
Get rid 3d nonsense. Never do this
2024 not a complete year. Either don’t include it OR add some adjustment to show likely outcome of full year (as is – it looks like a sharp counter-trend drop). At minimum: note it (as incomplete year) under graph
Consider inflation adjustment
Consider companion graphic that investigates if it was ticket prices going up or seats sold driving pre-covid increases
I’m gonna wager the completion of the Avengers saga is a bigger contributor to poor returns than the pandemic was. That thing f’d up some folks’ preferences.
If the results aren’t all using the same inflation adjusted dollar, this is crap
Missing 1/12th of 2024s data
Avengers Endgame really was the end of an era.
2023 was hard carried by Avatar 2 and Barbenheimer, that year is an outlier and 2022/2024 are the new normal
Make sense. When I get an itch to watch a movie i just fire netflix or something and it gets the job done 80% of the time.
I only go to the movies when its something I want to watch now. Used to go just as an activity and watch whatever is on
What this doesn’t tell you about the taste industry is what they make off concessions. The margin on soda and popcorn must be huge. Have theaters been able to make up for reduced ticket sales ~~prices~~ with food?
Not a very good chart. It’s vague and the graph design is lacking.
This is what happens when studios make movies for China lmao
I’m honestly surprised it’s recovered that much. I know very few people who bother with theater over streaming these days.
The reality is that this chart almost certainly aligns well with a second chart indicating “high-profile movies rated 7.5 or higher.”
I’ve seen about two movies per year since the end of the main Marvel story arc. That’s not on me. It’s just been that dry.
Besides an unfinished 2024 data, 2024 probably would have been higher if the writers strike didn’t happen and the current crop of movies being so dull and not worth going to the theaters. Of course that’s just my opinion.
Maybe if they made some decent original movies I’d go. I’m not going to see Fast & Furious 17 Fast and Furriest
Interesting data but ugly
I’d love to see this data if you removed Star Wars and Marvel movies.
Both of those franchises were hitting regularly pre pandemic and have not really found success post pandemic.
How much is an overall contraction of movies and how much is just these two franchises?
It’s almost like people suddenly discovered that going to theaters wasn’t good use of their money. I wonder why that is.
I don’t know if it is just me getting old and bitter and having less free time, but there is nothing worth watching anymore. The past decade has been capeshit, reboots and sequels.
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