2019 boxoffice stats
 

As we are just past the half way point of the year I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the highest grossing films so far for this year. You have got to laugh that the current top 5 all fall under the Disney umbrella and they have still got Lion King, Frozen 2 and Star Wars to come which will all gross over $1bn. A couple of films will make you cringe. Up and till recently Wandering Earth was in the top 3 and you just want to bang you head against the wall and ask why oh why :) There are some films that haven't done so well such as Dark Phoenix and MIB and despite their modest box office revenue they had very high production budgets making them a bit of a flop. In contrast, films such as John Wick have done very well because although they haven't been massive, they had surprisingly low production budgets making them very profitable.

All in all I think we have had a good year so far but I think it is more about the big hitters. Last year I felt there were consistently high quality films evenly distributed throughout the year. The only films I have been really excited about this year were Captain Marvel, Endgame and the Lion King. We have still got a few good ones to look forward to like Charlies Angels, Angel has Fallen and Terminator but that is it really. (and yes, I have deliberately left Star Wars out because I have absolutely zero excitement for it).

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Out of the top 10, the only ones I didnt watch are 3, 6 & 7.

Of the rest - I also watched 13, 16 & 18 - so overall, 50% of them.

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The box office generally has been down unfortunately. Even Disney can't save it at the moment. Hopefully Star Wars will give a bit hit but overall films just struggle these days as fewer people go to the cinema.

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I haven't seen 7 and 8 and out of the top 20 I haven't seen nine of the films so I am around the 50% mark as well.

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Two bits of good news ish. The first is that Spiderman has tipped $1bn. The second bit of good news is that if I did this last week which I had planned to do and forgot, the top three films of the year would have been Endgame, Captain Marvel and Spiderman which would have been a nice picture while it lasted. Lion King is doing very well though and has messed things up this week :p: Disney clearly rule the world and we have still got Frozen 2 and Star Wars to come. The end of year chart is going to look very interesting.

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Of the 20 in the first post I've not seen 6, 7, 13, 14 and 15. The joys of my unlimited card. I tend to go see most films as I can and don't end up wasting money on terrible movies. As the more I see the better value my card is. lol.

Got a feeling Hobbs & Shaw will end up in the top ten rather easily.

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Joker has over taken Deadpool to become the highest grossing R Rated movie ever

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni62664926...ref_=hm_nw_tp1



I know the year isn't over yet and we have still got some big hitter like Frozen 2 and Star Wars to come out but this is how things are looking at the moment. I think we can confidently say that Disney is going to rule the Top 10 by the end of the year

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Joker is going to smash the R rating record since it shows no signs of declining much. I hope this encourages DC/Warner to take this approach to their Superhero movies. Marvel does the epic, big-budget, big-income, cinematic universe stuff and DC does the darker, one-off, lower budget films. Like what we saw with Logan. The Batman universe lends itself to that approach very well IMO.

Star Wars won't take over the top few spots I don't think as it opens so late in the year. I wouldn't be surprised to see it in the top 10 based on the opening weekend alone which, going by the pre-orders, looks to be massive.

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Frozen will take the No. 2 or 3 spot meaning Disney will have the top 7 and I am sure Star Wars will hit $1bn the end of the year to take No. 8.

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I thought it would be a good idea to take another quick look before Frozen comes along and blows everything out of the way. Joker is doing extremely well and has over taken Hobbs & Shaw for the No. 7 spot and will probably pass $1bn this week. I doubt it is going to surpass Aladdin. I did the top 10 (instead of 8) for a laugh because I think it proves a good point about the power of the Chinese box office which most of us probably don't think about at all over here.

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l think the studio's never imagined the take for the Joker would ever reach these levels as l think they would have been over the moon with half that take.

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yeah, I think it only cost something like $50m to make. They didn't want to put too much money into it because they were unsure how well it would do and it has ended up making them a fortune. I hope Joaquin Phoenix gets a percentage of the profits.

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I think Frozen has got enough steam left in it over the xmas period to do another $150m and take the No. 5 spot from Toy Story.

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I know these figures aren’t inflation adjusted so don’t really give you the measure of “all time” success, but considering how low inflation has been over the last decade or more, the presence of all those very recent films in the top 10 does suggest we’re in the middle of a golden age, which is bizarre because every single one of them is a sequel or a re-make or an expansion of an established universe (possibly excepting the last one, which I know nothing about).

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Hare is a list of the top 50 highest grossing blockbusters of all time in 2018 adjusted for inflation which do suggest we are in a golden age.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls026442468/

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Just realised, the general's league table is just for 2019, inflation or no. :D

Thanks for the all-time top 20 though Den, that's a very interesting list. Some surprises on there.

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l certainly did not expect to see the Exorcist in there although there was a lot of shock value when it was released.

On Furious 7 given it was not the first film in the franchise that was quite surprising.

Harry Potter , Disney , LOTR , Star Wars no surprises there.

Gone with the Wind given that it was 1939 which was a golden year for old film classics but more importantly it was the start of WW2 and many were looking for a bit of entertainment to lessen the grimness of the situation at the time.

Here is a list of some of the films in 1939 which is considered one of the best years ever at the box office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_in_film

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Well that brought back memories.
My father worked part time as an usher for The Odeon in Blackburn (Full time as an NHS electrician) and got myself and older brother in for Dr Zhivago!

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Dr Zhivago a excellent film and of course with Omar Sharif in it made it even more popular.

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Of course.:D

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Star Wars forecast to make 2019 all-time record year for UK box office.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...buster-success

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I thought we would take one last look at things before Star Wars comes in after the weekend and blows it all up. I don't know what the forecast was Frozen but I thought it would clear $1.3bn easily but it looks like it has pretty much stalled.

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Maybe they left it too long for Frozen 2, I heard that they've aimed it at slightly older children so those that grew up with it would like it, but for example my kids who have watched the Frozen dvd lots, loved it, have no interest in seeing frozen 2, but were interested in Toy Story 4

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Star Wars has had a good start with $375m globally which catapults it straight into the No. 22 spot. Cats is going to flop big time, it has only taken $10m with a production budget of $95 and I can't see it catching up.

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Not bad for Star Wars, Disney will be relieved. It's third behind the other two but typically trilogies do drop off with each version.

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John Wick being a fine exception to the rule

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As are, imho, Captain America:Civil War and Toy Story 3.

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Absolutely

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By drop off I mean in Box Office. I also think something like Marvel, where you don't have to have seen the previous films doesn't count. Actual, planned, trilogies are expected to drop off since people who've seen the previous ones won't all see the next one and that isn't made up for by people who want to drop into a series mid-way.

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The last update for the year :) Frozen made last push for $50m which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago take jump all the way to No. 3. Star Wars hasn't done anywhere near as wwll as the previous two films. It might take an extra $20m to take the No. 9 spot from Hobbs & Shaw but there is no way it is going to make $1bn and catch up with Aladdin.

I have done a top 52 just so you can see where all the big films have landed. I think it is sad that stuff like Downton Abbey has done better than Angel Has Fallen but that is just my opinion. Good to see films like John Wick, Alita and Jumanji up there.

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The list is a bit arbitrary at this point. Films that came out 6 months ago aren’t competing on equal terms with those that were only released in time for Christmas. A more interesting table would be one that compares like for like, for example the first 2 months takings or somesuch (which still wouldn’t give an equivalent comparison for Star Wars until next month).

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Nice to see "Yesterday" doing so well, on a production budget of $26 million (of which $10 million was for the rights to use the Beatles song).

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I cant remember what the technical term is for it within the industry but they do do that because it is obviously unfair to compare what appears to be gross earnings for the year with something which has been released Christmas week and only had one week at the cinema against something which had a full run of 8 weeks over summer.

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I didn't think it was going to manage it but TROS might actually hit $1bn. It is currently sat at $956 so this weekend and next weekends revenue might just get it there.

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On the last day of the year I thought we could have a good chuckle. Although I didn't think this year's roster was particularly strong it is still a sad state of affairs. I was really looking forward to Eternals, Black Widow, Ghostbusters, Free Guy, Top Gun and Fast 9. I have only seen a few new films this year and the best by far was Mulan.

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That list is crazy, in any other year a majority of them probably wouldn't be in top 50;