Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefGlobal box office this year overtook 2020’s COVID-stricken total of $12 billion at the end of August.
It is now forecast to reach $20.2 billion in 2021, according to analysis firm Gower Street Analytics.The good news is that would represent a 68% rebound compared with last year.
The bad news is the total would still be 52% below the $42.3 billion record set in 2019 and less than half of the $41.9 billion average in the three pre-pandemic years (2017-19).Gower Street uses a mixture of actual year-to-date data and box office predictions from individual territories.
These are derived from its Forecast service and territories’ currently-known release calendars.So far in 2021, aggregate box office from all.
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