Warner Bros. Pictures emerged as the top-grossing studio for 2013. It ranked top in domestic, international and worldwide market shares with an estimated global box office gross of US$5.035 billion. This is a new Warner Bros. benchmark as well as the second studio to ever cross the US$5 billion threshold. Warner Bros. has also surpassed US$4 billion worldwide for the fifth consecutive year.
Domestically and Internationally, it has crossed the US$1 billion mark for 13 years in a row. The Studio took an estimated US$1.895 billion at the domestic box office with eight films crossing US$100 million. At the international box office, Warner Bros. took in US$3.14 billion with ten releases earning more than US$100 million internationally.
Two current hits, still in theatres, are among the Studio’s highest-grossing films for the year: “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” in partnership with New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), at US$659 million worldwide and counting; and “Gravity,” at US$663 million to date. The Summer blockbuster “Man of Steel,” from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, was the Studio’s top-grossing release for the year, at US$668 million globally. Among the other worldwide box office highlights for 2013 are: “Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Pacific Rim,” with US$411 million; “The Hangover Part III,” also in partnership with Legendary, at US$362 million; “The Great Gatsby,” in partnership with Village Roadshow Pictures, at US$351 million; New Line Cinema’s “The Conjuring,” with US$318 million; and “We’re the Millers,” also from New Line, at US$270 million.
Moving into 2014, the Studio’s First Quarter titles include “Her,” presently in limited release and due out wide on January 10; “The LEGO Movie,” in partnership with Village Roadshow Pictures, slated for February 7; “Winter’s Tale,” also with Village Roadshow Pictures, on February 14; and Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ “300: Rise of an Empire,” due out March 7.
Source: Business Wire
