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Domestic Box Office Falls to $8.75 Billion in 2024 as Movie Theaters Struggle to Recover From Strikes
Domestic box office revenues hit $8.7 billion in 2024, the first post-pandemic year in which grosses didn't improve upon the last.
Not even the dynamic duos of Joy and Anxiety, Deadpool and Wolverine, Gru and his minions or Paul Atreides and those massive sandworms could push the 2024 box office to pre-pandemic heights. It’s the first post-pandemic year that overall revenues didn’t improve upon the last, though box office prognosticators attribute the downturn to the lighter release schedule that resulted from 2023’s actors and writers strikes. Warner Bros. landed in third place with $1.164 billion, a 17%decline from last year as “Dune” and “Godzilla x Kong” soared while “Joker: Folie à Deux” and “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1” tanked on the big screen.
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