International box office losses due to the COVID-19 global shutdown have now overtaken China. Gower Street estimates that the global box office has lost $7.6 billion so far in 2020…
Domestic box office loss is approximately $1.16 billion year-on-year through April 23, a 38.9% drop. Within that the US has shed $1.04 billion and Canada $103.6 million. But knowing what…
Gower Street’s Chief Analyst of Theatrical Insights, Thomas Beranek, was a panellist last Thursday (April 23) on Comscore’s first German coronavirus webinar focused on the impact of COVID-19 on the…
Last week, even before President Trump laid out a set of guidelines for how states might be able to re-open domestic movie theaters, Cinemark suggested a goal to start having…
Gower Street's Director of Theatrical Insights, Rob Mitchell, was invited to take part this week in Comscore's first Coronavirus webinar focused on the UK/Ireland cinema industry. The webinar, which took…
Three weeks ago Gower Street laid out its proposed benchmarks for a “Blueprint to Recovery” – the markers that would need to be achieved to indicate that the theatrical movie…
As '90s Northern Irish pop band D:Ream sang, things can only get better! This weekend reached an egregious benchmark as the percentage of global theaters open for business dropped below…
This week Gower Street is introducing a new regular feature to its Road To Recovery report: the Global Box Office Tracker. The Global Box Office Tracker (GBOT) looks at daily…
If only Obi-Wan Kenobi could wave a hand and use the powers of the Jedi to end this crisis or, better still, make it so it never happened. But while…