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Overall Box Office Up More Than 3% from 2005
by Scott Weinberg | January 04, 2007
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Total domestic box office showed a 3.4% climb in 2006, thanks mainly to semi-expensive profit-turners like "Talladega Nights," "The Break-Up," and "The Devil Wears Prada." And boy oh boy did Sony have a good year!

$9.13 billion looks to be the final tally on the 2006 box office pool, with every studio slicing up their own part of the pie. (2005 brought in $8.83 billion, while 2004 was pretty impressive with $9.21 billion.)



Sony took 18.59% of the 2006 market share, thanks mainly to titles like "Casino Royale," "The Da Vinci Code," and "Ricky Bobby," while Disney settled for second place, bolstered mainly by the one-two punch of "Cars" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."



In third place was Fox and their "Borat," "Prada," "X-Men: The Last Stand," and "Night at the Museum."

Warner Bros. and Paramount follow up the rear, although both had solid turnouts for flicks like "Happy Feet," "Superman Returns," "The Departed," "Over the Hedge," and "Mission: Impossible 3." Universal had a tough year; according to Variety, their biggest hit of 2006 was the aforementioned "The Break-Up," which made just under $119 million.

For a closer and much more thorough breakdown of the studios' year-end report cards, click right here.

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gerke writes:
on Jan 04 2007 05:06 AM

i don't think this is very very interesting. i would be more fun to see which studio was the most profitable since most of the big movies cost around 100 mln in production and p&a.

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on Jan 04 2007 09:55 AM

It's nice to see the box office go up, even if last year had better movies.

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Reel 2/Dialogue 2 writes:
on Jan 04 2007 11:13 AM

[b]Yay, Hollyweird made a nickel and some lint![/b]
So, wait... the box office is up this year... compared to a previous year... that was repeatedly bludgeoned to death in the press... as a bad box office year? What kinda screwy math is this? That's like complaining about starving one day, then cheering the next day for finding a peanut. Doesn't 2006 still count as a bad box office year, in Hollywood terms? I guess they're tired of doomsaying (I know... SHOCKING). Lucky us.

How was 2006 compared to 1999?


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Now it's dark writes:
on Jan 04 2007 01:56 PM

I'd way rather hear about the number of tickets sold. And how much each ticket costs compared to last year.

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327752
COME ON! writes:
on Jan 04 2007 06:37 PM

In reply to this comment (#852263)
Yes, me too.

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Zee-Mann writes:
on Jan 04 2007 09:56 PM

I also think this wasn't as important is it was made out to be. I'm kind of glad business was "up" though.
Really, if you factor in:
inflation
number of tickets
profit and expectations
actual overall quality of films

Was this year really all that great?


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eastern2western writes:
on Jan 05 2007 04:19 PM

[b]too much competition[/b]
I believe the theater attending audiences are slowly shrinking because of the availability of more economical options. Nowadays, people can do things such as renting and buying movies for a much lower price than going to watch the movies in the theaters. For example, Blockbuster allows its online members to rent unlimited movies for a bout 20 dollars a month. If the money is spent on going to see the movies, it will just buy tickets for two adults. Economicallly speaking, watching movies in the theaters is getting too expensive.


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