Box office analysis: Hollywood's high hopes for summer end with bummer
While a record number of summer tentpoles crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office — thanks mostly to Disney — the season is headed for a troublesome finish as the Labor Day weekend approaches.
Preliminary Comscore estimates show summer revenue clocking in at $4.33 billion through Sept. 3, a 2 percent decline over the same corridor in 2018. This puts additional pressure on the September-December calendar to close the 6 percent year-to-date gap over 2019, when ticket sales in North America hit a record high of $11.9 billion.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots at the box office has never been greater, and neither has the domination by one major Hollywood studio — Disney., crossed the $100 million threshold at the domestic box office. That compares with two last year:
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