The US box office since COVID
Annual theatrical gross against the pre-pandemic 2019
benchmark · Sources:
The Numbers,
MPA,
Gower Street, BLS
2020 trough
$11.73B
28% of 2019
2025 full year
$33.55B
80% of 2019
Global Box Office
Nominal dollars
US & Canada
International
About this data
- Domestic figures are full-market US & Canada theatrical gross from The Numbers. Completed years are fixed; only the in-progress year is refreshed.
- Global totals come from the MPA THEME reports through 2021 and Gower Street Analytics from 2022, after the MPA stopped publishing THEME publicly. International is the remainder after US & Canada.
- The in-progress year has no bar here: global figures are only published annually, each spring. Switch to the United States view for year-to-date.
- The adjusted view uses CPI-U to restate every year in 2019 dollars. It is general inflation, not ticket-price inflation. Ticket prices have risen faster than CPI, so this is the conservative read of the decline.
- These are published industry market totals, not sums of the FilmIntel catalog.