The summertime box office this year was notable for the numbers being down, but then fall hits like IT picked things up a bit, leading some to hope that the holiday releases might recoup a lot of what was lost due to movies like Justice League and even the latest Transformers movie underperforming domestically.
The likes of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and other holiday releases have done well, but it wasn’t enough to bring things up to pace with numbers in previous years.
Even with some major box office successes, the domestic total for 2017 wasn’t as good as some had hoped.
The North American box office raked in roughly $11.1 billion this year, and while that is impressive in the sense that it’s the third highest year on record and the third consecutive year to see the overall box office break $11 billion, it also represents a 2.3% dip from last year.