The last three years have seen the box office sitting about $5.6 billion at this point, and it’s currently sitting at $6.2 billion.
With that additional business, there’s a good chance that 2018 will become the biggest box office year ever, exceeding the $11.3 billion that was done in 2016.
The early success of Black Panther also helped the box office to a stronger first quarter than it was used to seeing,which puts 2018 on the whole in an impressive place going into the back half of the year.
While 2018 won’t see the Star Wars boost at the end of the year that we’re used to, there are still plenty of big movies to come, including Ant-Man and the Wasp this weekend and Mission: Impossible – Fallout before the summer is over, as well as Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Aquaman at the end of the year.