A pretty anemic Labor Day box office, which will get the summer box office to $3.67 billion in updated ComScore figures, which is -0.2% with last summer’s $3.677 billion.
We’ll get into the hows and the ways of summer later, but May was the only month that was up this year over last May, +76%, while June, July and August were down (all three months totaled at $2.68 billion, -13% a year ago). There was this heavy pressure out there for the marketplace to deliver a $4 billion-plus May-Labor Day total, a figure which was constant for the summer domestic box office since 2012 except for 2017, the pandemic 2020, recovery 2021, 2022, 2024 and now this year. Interesting to note that this summer was ahead of 2022’s $3.4 billion, but behind 2017’s $3.85 billion (when the top movie was Wonder Woman).
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