What's impressive about this year so far I think is that no one movie has made over $160 million in the calendar year so far, while at this point last year The Force Awakens and Revenant already had, and Deadpool had cleared $300 million. The year is succeeding so far mainly because of more mid-sized hits, so the success is a little more spread out, which is, to me at least, much more enjoyable than one movie hogging all the fun.

That said, Beauty and the Beast is about to come in and a suck a lot of air out of the room, but I guess that'll be necessary to keep pace with Zootopia and Batman v. Superman from last year.

I think those three movies do show that so long as there is a quality product that gets people excited, they will race out to see it to avoid FOMO, even if it's not a "big screen movie" or whatever. Granted, "don't make shitty films" is a bit of a tall task, but this year has been abnormally high in quality films, and not just 2016 holdovers or randomly dumped movies - Split, Get Out, Lego Batman, John Wick 2, and Logan have all gotten really, really good reviews, and have all been financial successes.

Another random 2017 thing of note - I did not realize that Lionsgate was the #3 studio for the year thus far, thanks to La La Land and John Wick. Granted, WB and Disney will overtake it by the end of next weekend thanks to Kong and Beauty, but LGF will also have Power Rangers, and that should help keep it ahead of Paramount and Sony for a few more months.

Agree guys, seemed like only yesterday we were mourning they decide of the mid range film and this year so far has proved the contrary. Hope it continues.

Quality blockbusters outside the Oct-Jan corridor is all we ask for.

Looks like Kong's overperformance has 2017, at least for a few days, neck and neck with 2016. And Beauty and the Beast should push 2017 over the top, and give it a lead at least for a little while.

Also, another way of looking at the "more mid-range performers" mentioned earlier: last year Jan-Apr had five films make $280+ million that calendar period, but only THREE films finish between $100 million and $280 million. This year, it looks like Beauty and the Beast and maybe F8 of the Furious will cross $280 million, but this year already has nine films that have made between $100 million and $280 million, with Kong, Power Rangers, and maybe another overperformer still to come.

The depth this year is impressive. We still also have Ghost in the Shell, Boss Baby and Life (though granted this may flop) with shots at 100m+

Boss Baby will be like totally legi and give 2017 the edge bra.

2017 and 2016 are neck to neck at this point but I believe March will make more than last year specially with the depth of movies. BvS's opening will be matched by BatB for sure and then we have Power Rangers and GitS, Chips, Life and The Boss Baby some of which should backload into April to make it strong. TJB will be matched by F8.

This weekend was a nice shot in the arm for 2017, now 5.8% up on 2016 (and 17.1% up on 2015).

Next weekend will take a small hit as last year had BvS - but the BO depth at the moment will help keep the loss to a minimum. After that 2017 should be ahead through April.

This is March madness the BO is in fire right now. And it will only cool down slightly with next weekend. There are just so many good options this time around in the market much better than the situation last year with just a couple of movies hogging the market.

I expect those to make $100m combined.

boss Baby going to make bling for serious gurl. Alec Baldwin is very I. Right now Tha KS to laying Trump.

Is the N not working on princess's keyboard?

Regardless I agree TBB should at the least clear $100m.

If I had to guess, I'd say he is using his phone with predictive text while driving his car and getting a blowjob.

They say girls are better at multi-tasking.

I, for one, completely suck at it.

I'm not buying Princess being a girl.

Huh, I thought April was a bust, but it ended up passing 2011 to grab the monthly gross record, which is pretty nuts since FF8, Boss Baby, and Beauty and the Beast were the only films to make over $38 million in the entire month. Those three alone make up about 53-54% of the month's gross ($446 million).

The coming month could be rough though. Guardians and Pirates 5 are the only $100 million locks opening, and the holdover are all spent. Baywatch and Alien Covenant should do well, but nothing is set in stone.

It wasn't those three above $38m mark but the April releases Fate, Smurfs and GiS that only made $38m+ for the month.

If you look at the calendar gross you will understand why the month over-performed. TBB and BatB contributed $133m and $120m. There were a dearth of small movies and the depth has been pretty good specially with the trio of GO, Kong, Logan posting great holds throughout April, helping the Top 10 every week. I am not surprised that April did this well, the depth in the market this year has been pretty exciting to follow. We are not just tracking one blockbuster movie that sucks up the entire market instead multiple titles are doing great.

May 2016 was pretty poor, too. It's only the 9th largest overall, so this year shouldn't be much worse if at all.

The real drag is going to be August, which was a record breaker last year, but looks absolutely terrible this summer.

The overall June is still weak as well and I think the 3.5% lead this year will shrink soon. The next weekend is going to be bad again.

I think I'll add my opinion in now.

January
2017: $958.5M
2016: $1,036.4M
2015 (for good measure): $1,005.9M

3rd best January for all-time started the year off well with holdovers bringing in $330+ million of the $958.4M month. The highest new entry was Split with $81.13 million. While Rogue One, Sing and Hidden Figures climbed over $100 million for the month.

February
2017: $782.2M/$1,740.7M
2016: $799M/$1,835.4M
2015: $765.9M/$1,771.8M

A big haul for February still behind 2016's nearly $800M but 2017 has shown it can be a big year from the small hits that find a way to make mass amounts of money, like the biggest surprise of the year Get Out which ended up making $175+ million in its entire run.

March
2017: $1,168.6M/$2,909.3M
2016: $948.7M/$2,784.1M
2015: $704.5M/$2,476.3M

This was a game changer of a month for the industry beating the previous record by over $200 MILLION, that is amazing. The month had Logan, Kong: Skull Island, Beauty and the Beast, Power Rangers as well as smaller films like The Shack. It was a stacked month which did also show that movie that are good will get an audience even if the month is stacked.

April
2017: $811.6M/$3,720.9M
2016: $780.2M/$3,564.3M
2015: $778.3M/$3,254.6M

The year now had a 4.4% lead on 2016 and a 14.3% lead on 2015 after another record-breaking month. Although this was the first sign of slowing down because most films in the highest grossing for the month were March releases except for The Fate of the Furious.

May
2017: $838.7M/$4,559.7M
2016: $937.1M/$4,501.4M
2015: $1,074.5M/$4,329.1M

May was a bad month, the first bad one of the year. The gross is $250 million lower than 2015, the leads have gone down significantly too. Lead on 2016 is now 1.3% and on 2015 its 5.3%. Can it get any worse?

June
2017: $822.7M/$5,382.4M (23/06)
2016: $1,087.2M/$5,588.6M
2015: $1,233.7M/$5,562.8M

To keep a lead the month needs to do another $200 million which is actually likely, the top 10 gross for June 23rd was $40M assuming a similar Saturday and a $30 million we will be at $892.7M after another week of weekdays (similar to last weeks at about $79 million taking away Transformers 5 gross and adding about $7 million for Baby Driver first days) we have $971.7M as of 29/06. After that we can look forward to a massive Friday on 30th June as Despicable Me 3 and The House also drop into theaters likely sky rocketing the total to $1,031.7M+

June Predictions put year so far at
2017: $1,031.7M/$5,591.4M (just over what it needed to keep a lead)
2016: $1,087.2M/$5,588.6M
2015: $1,233.7M/$5,562.8M

What does everyone else think about this year so far?

Its behaving similar to 2016 where the first three months were much stronger that summer from their previous records. I am hoping though July this year will be bigger than last year but then August looks so weak as well.

July will be huge DM3 (250m+), SP:HC (300m+), Dunkirk(150m+) & WFPOA(175m+).

Nice recap of the year so far dandeak2000 - please post more often! I agree - July will be much bigger, starting with this weekend's releases. Even Emoji Movie and Atomic Blonde will make bank.

August is weak but hopefully Dark Tower, Detroit, Logan Lucky and The Hitman's Body Guard are all hits.

2017 is now 0.4% behind 2016, but here are my predictions for July 2017

My guess is that July 2017 finishes with $1.2-1.3 billion

2017 up to 30th June = $5,614.8 million

2017 through July with prediction $6,814.8-6,914.8 million.

2016 through July = $6,960 million

With Spider-Man: Homecoming, Despicable Me 3, War for the Planet of the Apes, Dunkirk, Baby Driver, Valerian, Atomic Blonde, The Emoji Movie and continued success of Wonder Woman July is going to be a good month for the box office, likely the best of the year so far.

2017 is still going to go below 2016 by July thanks to a weak June and August is also not looking big enough.