Monday, November 28, 2022

Thanksgiving 5-day weekend movie box office, 2017 to 2022


Thanksgiving 5-day weekend box office is down 7% compared to last year, down 58% compared to 2018.


Yahoo News, 11/28/2022


11/28/2022 update, part 2, starts here.

Thanksgiving 5-day weekend box office is down 8% compared to last year, down 58% compared to 2018.


CNN, 11/25/2022
The slate is a far cry from Thanksgiving weekends of yore. Thanksgiving is usually one of the busiest times of the year for movie theaters, as in many ways it kicks off the profitable holiday box office season — similar to how Memorial Day weekend ushers in the summer. For example, films like “Creed,” “Moana,” and “Knives Out” opened on Thanksgiving weekends and did well. 
So what happened to Thanksgiving this year? Once again, blame Covid. 
“The impact of the pandemic, both in terms of production disruption and release-calendar shuffling, has left the table fairly light on cinematic entrees,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore (SCOR), told CNN Business.

11/28/2022 update, part 1, starts here.

Thanksgiving 3-day weekend box office is down 3% compared to last year, down 57% compared to 2018.


Variety, 11/26/2022
Overall, it’s been a fairly dire weekend for theaters. The five-day frame is projected to net $125.4 million in ticket sales across all releases, down 12% [??] from last year’s Thanksgiving weekend — which had the additional handicap of arriving during a period of heightened COVID-19 precautions. This year’s crop of films aren’t connecting as strongly as offerings last year like “Encanto” and “House of Gucci.”‘

Related posts:
Thanksgiving 5-day weekend movie box office, 2017 to 2022

Thanksgiving 2022 daily top 10 movie grosses (Wednesday-Sunday)  (11/28/2022)
Pre-Thanksgiving box office weekend down 47% from 2017 peak.  (11/21/2022)
Going down: October 2022 box office drops 44% compared to 2018. (11/3/2022)
Weekend box office reports for October 2020.  (series)

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