During the weekend ending on May 27, 2024, the action movie "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" was the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada, collectively known as the North American movie market. Its box office revenue amounted to 32 million U.S. dollars.
The North American box office after the pandemic
The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak persists in the arguably most influential market worldwide. Box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada stood slightly below nine billion dollars in 2023 – more than three billion less than the value recorded in 2019. Perhaps unsurprisingly, cinema attendance experienced a very similar trajectory. The number of movie tickets sold in Canada and the U.S. amounted to little more than 825 million in 2023. Between 1980 and 2019, it had always surpassed a billion.
The struggle of Canada's cinema
When looking only at the northernmost country part of the North American movie market, the post-pandemic recovery was even slower. Box office gross in Canada amounted to around 600 million Canadian dollars in 2023, roughly only two thirds of the result seen in 2019. It is possible that the audience remained cautious after the coronavirus outbreak. As of mid-2021, nearly 70 percent of people aged 14 and above said in a survey that they did not go to a movie theater in Canada throughout the past 12 months.
Weekend box office revenue of the 10 highest-grossing movies in the United States and Canada as of May 27, 2024
(in million U.S. dollars)
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comScore. (May 31, 2024). Weekend box office revenue of the 10 highest-grossing movies in the United States and Canada as of May 27, 2024 (in million U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 29, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/201600/weekend-box-office-gross/
comScore. "Weekend box office revenue of the 10 highest-grossing movies in the United States and Canada as of May 27, 2024 (in million U.S. dollars)." Chart. May 31, 2024. Statista. Accessed October 29, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/201600/weekend-box-office-gross/
comScore. (2024). Weekend box office revenue of the 10 highest-grossing movies in the United States and Canada as of May 27, 2024 (in million U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: October 29, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/201600/weekend-box-office-gross/
comScore. "Weekend Box Office Revenue of The 10 Highest-grossing Movies in The United States and Canada as of May 27, 2024 (in Million U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 31 May 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/201600/weekend-box-office-gross/
comScore, Weekend box office revenue of the 10 highest-grossing movies in the United States and Canada as of May 27, 2024 (in million U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/201600/weekend-box-office-gross/ (last visited October 29, 2024)
Weekend box office revenue of the 10 highest-grossing movies in the United States and Canada as of May 27, 2024 (in million U.S. dollars) [Graph], comScore, May 31, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/201600/weekend-box-office-gross/