The US box office since COVID
Annual theatrical gross against the pre-pandemic 2019
benchmark · Sources:
The Numbers,
MPA,
Gower Street, BLS
2020 trough
$2.10B
19% of 2019
2025 full year
$6.92B
61% of 2019
2026 YTD
$5.41B
48% of full-year 2019
Domestic Box Office
Adjusted to 2019 dollars (CPI-U)
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.
- The final bar is year-to-date, not a full year, and is marked accordingly.
- 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.