Worldwide box office record set in 2014
In 2014, a new box office record was set at the worldwide box office. According to Variety, citing data from the Film Producers Association of America, the aggregate gross has reached $ 36.4 billion, an increase of one percent over the previous best achievement. It is worth noting that the record was set solely due to the increase in international box office, which was able to offset the 5% reduction in box office in North America. It is quite natural that the main locomotive was the Chinese movie market, whose collections in 2014 grew by 34 percent at once and reached 4.8 billion dollars. Overall, movie earnings in Asia increased 12 percent over 2013. The American market, on the other hand, showed a significant decline. Viewers in the US and Canada purchased a total of 1.27 billion tickets, down six percent from a year earlier. On average, every American bought 5.5 tickets, up from 5.9 tickets in 2013. As for the race of American viewers, a significant increase was recorded only among the white audience - 21.2 million versus 17.8 million a year earlier. On the other hand, black viewers decreased their activity somewhat. In total, 3.7 million African Americans visited US cinemas in 2014, up from 4.3 million in 2013. The absolute leader in 2014 was the movie "Transformers 4: Age of Extinction", which earned $ 1.091 billion at the worldwide box office. The Topic of Article: Worldwide box office record set in 2014. |
