Top Grossing Studios For 2006

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To me, that doesn't mean much because the top grossing movies are not necessarely the best movies. I guess "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is the reason for Buena Vista to be on top and I didn't like the movie. These past few years haven't been great IMO. I don't even like the "Lord of the Rings" series. Top grossing or not, I don't care. What I care is the catalog and that's where Blu-ray tops HD DVD.

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Very interesting! I've said it all along and I'll continue to say it: Studio support matters!! OTOH, the BD exclusive studios need to release their '06 blockbusters on BD within the next few months in order for this to have an effect on the format war. Imagine what kind of sales just Cars, Pirates Of The Caribbean 2, and X-Men 3 could muster for Blu-ray! Too bad Disney already confirmed those first two won't hit BD this year. Talk about your missed opportunities.

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I tend to be a little bit skeptical with some things like this. Of course they would pick the time that made them look the best. Check out 2005 and 2004 and I don't think they are skewed the same way. But I was curious what Universal has coming up, so I checked under Universal Studios on www.imdb.com and found the following:


2007 - The Bourne Ultimatum

2007 - I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Adam Sandler and Kevin James)

2007 - The Munsters (Wayans brothers)

2006 - Man of the Year (Robin Williams)


along with some Deep Throat political thing and a Jodie Foster movie. I might have missed some good stuff that didn't have good writeups though.


From looking at Universal's list, the thing that surprised me the most is that it looks like they are releasing most of their better stuff from the last year or two. That is a good thing in some ways, but makes me wonder what they will have left to really sway people. They could go back a little further (I see "Meet the Fockers" from 2004) but I'm not seeing all that much left until going back to 2003 and earlier. After looking at that list, I'm wondering if their HD division is going to feel like they need a kickstart next year when they've gone through a lot of the good stuff for the last 5 years. If that happens, they might feel an urge to rerelease the same titles, but on Blu-ray this time.


--Darin

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not sure what you mean. It has nothing to do with BD/HD DVD


2005 - http://www.the-numbers.com/market/2005.php


Rank Distributor Movies 2005 Gross Tickets Share

1 Warner Bros. 27 $1,429,673,284 223,037,952 16.16%

2 20th Century Fox 21 $1,352,531,756 211,003,393 15.29%

3 Universal 23 $992,440,211 154,826,866 11.22%

4 Buena Vista 23 $919,292,312 143,415,336 10.39%

5 Paramount Pictures 17 $821,959,361 128,230,790 9.29%

6 Sony Pictures 22 $755,916,384 117,927,674 8.55%

7 Dreamworks SKG 10 $501,821,505 78,287,287 5.67%

8 New Line 13 $418,061,480 65,220,199 4.73%

9 Lionsgate 20 $284,607,247 44,400,507 3.22%

10 Miramax/Dimension 7 $181,362,187



2004 - http://www.the-numbers.com/market/2004.php

Rank Distributor Movies 2004 Gross Tickets Share

1 Sony Pictures 34 $1,323,985,686 212,859,434 14.26%

2 Warner Bros. 32 $1,221,249,808 196,342,412 13.15%

3 Buena Vista 26 $1,157,106,998 186,030,063 12.46%

4 Dreamworks SKG 10 $925,931,555 148,863,593 9.97%

5 20th Century Fox 19 $916,033,516 147,272,271 9.87%

6 Universal 20 $906,494,479 145,738,663 9.76%

7 Paramount Pictures 18 $624,885,940 100,463,977 6.73%

8 Newmarket Films 8 $406,789,255 65,400,202 4.38%

9 New Line 14 $394,531,628 63,429,523 4.25%

10 Miramax 21 $363,699,579

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I'm not skeptical - it's just numbers from some other site - if they are wrong, then that could be. But, the numbers are what they are. Prior years have Universal up and down by a few percentage points and BD specific studios up and down by 10% more or less for their position.


Right now is a good year for BD specific studios. Not as good for those supporting both formats and not as good for Universal. So be it.


The respost came from the Blu-ray.com forums, not from the main part of the site itself, so it wasn't from the "look how cool Blu-ray is!" section, but from the guys just talking about the format and such.


I wonder how HD-DVD supporters would feel if 50% of exclusive support belonged to HD-DVD instead of Blu-ray? I mean, we already have a post (above) that points out how HD-DVD currently has more titles out already when compared to Blu-ray.


I really wonder if Blu-ray will be strong to captilize on this advantage (which it is) and will get Disney off their butts to actually produce some movies as they should be doing already for current releases. Cars is the PERFECT example of a film that should be out for the holidays.... but won't be. Heck, can you imagine if a good copy of Cars was included with PS3? That may turn a lot of heads.

Slightly different numbers form Boxofficemojo.com
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/

1 Sony / Columbia 17.8% $1,230.6 24 20

2 Buena Vista 17.4% $1,200.5 20 14

3 20th Century Fox 14.6% $1,009.5 20 16

4 Paramount 10.7% $737.9 14 11

5 Universal 10.6% $734.9 17 13

6 Warner Bros. 9.8% $675.2 18 12

7 Weinstein Company 3.2% $224.1 12 5

8 Lionsgate 3.2% $221.4 16 14

9 New Line 2.4% $164.7 9 6

10 Fox Searchlight 2.2% $152.3 13 10

11 Focus Features 1.6% $113.7 8 6

12 MGM/UA 1.1% $76.6 5 5