Entertainment
Box office bomb: 2020 was ‘year like no other’ for film industry – Al Jazeera English
Most North American theatres weren’t open for six months straight through the summer season.
When the sun sets on the 2020 film box office, it will be difficult to look at the numbers as anything but disastrous.
After five consecutive years of North American revenues exceeding $11bn, this year they are expected to cap out at an almost 40-year low of about $2.3bn.
That will be down 80 percent from last year, according to data firm Comscore. Globally, where markets have been able to recover more fully, ticket sales will likely end up somewhere between $11bn and $12bn. Last year, that total…
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