Hollywood counts on autumn and winter to correct the slowdown .
It's official - the summer box office in North America has declined this year.
Sales fell 14.6 percent to $ 3.83 billion, tied to the summer of 2014 to mark the worst year-over-year decline in modern history, according to final figures released on Tuesday. comScore. When adjusting for inflation, it's even worse.
To start, it is the first time since 2006 that global revenues have not reached $ 4 billion.
The slowdown in attendance was even more alarming. About 430 million consumers went to the cinema between May 5 and Labor Day, by far the worst of the under-25s.
Starting in the summer, the domestic box office functioned comfortably before 2016. Now it has decreased by more than 6% compared to the same period of last year.
International ticketing, which accounts for nearly 4 per cent of the year to date, continues to offer some comfort, although most of the growth is thanks to China.
In North America, more summer tent plays are not depressed. The whole bombs included King Arthur: the legend of the sword and the valerian and the city of a thousand lights, while titles such as the pirates of the Caribbean: the dead men tell stories and transformers: the last knight came well behind the previous installments in their respective franchises. Live comedies were another major fate, with the exception of Malcolm D. Lee's Girls Trip, which is the nominal R comedy of best performance for more than a year, with a northeast of $ 112 million in the country.
The girls' trip was not the only box office hit of the summer of 2017 highlighting how successful a woman-oriented property can be successful. The marvelous wife of Patty Jenkins, featuring Gal Gadot as a superhero, was the national summer film and the only title to cross 400 million dollars (until Monday, the north- US $ 409