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Whywork. First week of Dec 2021 is £75m that's from box office mojo up to 7th Dec.
Revenue maybe up on 2019 but what is the lfl in the customer count as prices / wages / rent / utility bills have increased.
If you look at the figures and compare the first week of December
2019 = £125m
2021 = £150m
Either way, were much better off on box office sales this month this year, than this month last year! The doors are open, popcorn is flowing, and screens are lit. I was going to say the sound of money hitting the till is there, but nowadays its all taps on the readers!
Even if we hit the October figures that is good enough as it will be another positive cash flow month for CINE. Spiderman alone can fetch atleast $300M in 2 weekends and Matrix can fetch atleast $200M by close of December and then then we have Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, which could bring close to $100M.
Also note that our UK figures will be smashing records like Bond movie.
Lhall if you change one of the drop downs it will change to MTD rather than showing the end of month figures for December 2019.
If you do that, you can see we are at 65% of the same period 2019, which isn't too bad, given nothing major has been released yet this month....although long way in the month to go yet and as we all know, much bigger releases to come, so in all 65% isn't a bad platform to start from before WSS, Spiderman, Matrix, Sing 2, and The King's Man.
I looked at the comparative first weekend of December for the previous few years and they're around $20m Fri $30m Sat. Compared to $12m $20m. They're small figures so plenty of time to make up. Anything around £800m (75%) or above I think would be a positive result for this year.
5 years to 2019 average for December c. 1.2bn (domestic I e. North American market).
I will be VERY pleasantly surprised if box office hits 90% of that.
FANTASTIC if it does or even near, not expecting it personally.
It's a big ask I'm basically two weeks takings from admittedly what looks promising for an absolutely mega movie and c. 3 other strong performers (not as if it is first December in history with one of if not THE biggest grossing movie of year by far).
Springboard for next year and as noted by others the next big step to give confidence across the pond and get attendance numbers up like we have seen in UK.
Another fun fact - if you look at 2018 and 2017 compared to 2021 we are at just over 90% of both those years for week 48 - 2019 was an exception due to the release of Frozen 2 - so if anything we are very well placed to hit 90% or more based on past performance
@lhall - at this point in the year it’s worth looking at the weekly figures vs monthly - for week 48 going into December 2021 was 57% of 2019 (117mv205m) - when you look at weeks 51&52 it massively skews as $800m in those two weeks alone - with Spider-Man, Matrix and all the rest it isn’t impossible that we get a comparable spike from the middle to end of month and can end very close to that 1bn figure
Let’s talk on dec 31. I think we will will 90% of 2019
Petty sure SpiderMan, matrix & west side story will help
Does anyone else think the box office numbers for December so far are pretty poor. Only $67m taken in 7 days. 2019 and previous 5 or so years was $1bn for Dec.