Good Box Office, But Not Great Overall Results

It turns out robust box office numbers were only wonderful for a chosen few.

Summer Box Office Poised To Be 2nd-Best Ever, So Why Isn’t Everybody Happy?

Despite all the great news about how this summer’s $4.36 billion box office is a 7% boom over last year’s dumpy ticket sales, several studios aren’t sharing the wealth in a season where Universal and Disney ruled 60% of stateside ticket sales. As of today, summer 2015 currently ranks third behind 2013’s record $4.77B and 2011’s $4.405B, however pundits think it will fly past that latter figure by the end of Labor Day.

Eight films out of the top 12 that cleared $100M+ were either Universal or Disney releases. Compare this to 2013, when 19 $100M-grossing titles were spread among the majors. ...

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Disney had Inside Out and Universal had Minions. Those two offerings certainly helped the bottom line. And then there was that other animated hybrid disguised as a dinosaur movie entitled Jurassic World.