2009 Movie Studio Revenues & Box Office Share
February 9, 2010
The Big Six ranked: total box office revenues and market share
- Warner Bros: $2.13 billion ~ 20%
- Paramount Pictures: $1.46 billion ~ 13.8%
- 20th Century-Fox: $1.45 billion ~ 13.7%
- Columbia Pictures (Sony): $1.44 billion ~ 13.6%
- Walt Disney Pictures: $1.21 billion ~ 11.4%
- Universal Studios: $900 million ~ 8.5%
The Film Industry That Was 2009
February 4, 2010
Before we get too far into 2010, let’s take a look back at the film industry’s figures in 2009.
Total Film Industry Spending
- US consumers spent a total of $28.38 billion on feature movies in 2009 – slightly less than 2008’s $28.47 billion
2009 Box Office Numbers
- The domestic box office (including Canada) rang in a record high $10.6 billion
- The 2009 US box office generated $9.87 billion in revenues, up 8% over 2008
- Box office admissions for the year were up 4%
2009 Home Video Numbers
- Total physical media sales (DVD & Blu-ray) for movies declined 13% to $8.73 billion in 2009
- Blu-ray comprised $1.1 billion (12.6%) of movie disc sales
- Online rentals and purchases rang in $361 million in spending for 2009 (this figure is included in the $8.73 billion)
- On demand rentals though cable and satellite services totaled $1.27 billion (also included in the $8.73 billion)
- The number of homes with Blu-ray players grew to 8 million, up over 260% from last year
Key Takeaways
- Cinema surpassed physical media (DVD & Blu-ray) sales of for the first time since 2002.
- Although rental transactions rose 5.5% during 2009, movie rental spending rose less than 1% to $8.15 billion.
The latter is obviously due to the proliferation of Redbox and Netflix. It will be an interesting battle throughout 2009 between the studios and these companies. Just this past Monday, Walmart put a cap on new release purchases, limiting customers to 5 DVD/Blu-ray’s at a time. In a statement, Walmart says the rules are meant to be “consumer friendly, ensuring that more customers have access to new releases”. But if you read between the lines what they are really saying is, “the studios keep pokin us with that damn stick… and it’s gettin pretty sharp”. Adams Media Research estimates that Redbox gets about 40% of its new release DVD’s from big-box retailers like Walmart. With Netflix recently agreeing to Warner Bros. 28-day new release window, it appears that Redbox in particular is being boxed in (what a cheap, cheap pun 
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