Box Office Mojo by IMDbPro Delivers Data for CNN Business’s COVID-19 Economic Recovery Dashboard

Dashboard Shows Ticket Sales Slowly Climbing as More Theaters Re-Open

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#BoxOfficeMojo–Box Office Mojo by IMDbPro (boxofficemojo.com), the leading online source of box office data, is powering information for CNN Business’s recently launched COVID-19 Economic Recovery Dashboard. The dashboard provides a wealth of information on the impact of COVID-19 on our rapidly changing economy in an interactive and visually engaging format. Easy-to-understand graphs and charts show the impact on key financial and economic indicators including mortgage rates, unemployment figures, and the amount Americans are saving. Box Office Mojo data is also available in IMDb’s data licensing products available through the AWS Data Exchange, making it easy for companies to analyze entertainment trends (developer.imdb.com).

As more theaters begin to re-open, Box Office Mojo is illustrating a gradual but steady improvement in box office figures, from their lowest ebb of $5,250 for the week of March 27-April 2, to $30.1 million in overall gross for the week of September 4-10. The top three films for the week ending September 10 were Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated Tenet, which reaped $20.2 million in its opening week, followed by The New Mutants ($4.5 million) and the Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged, which added $2.7 million for the week. Over the past several months, box office tallies were impacted by theater closures, stay-at-home orders, and the cancellation or delay of major U.S. theatrical releases. Prior to the shutdown, the week of January 17-23 was 2020’s best performing week, with more than $245 million worth of tickets sold, coinciding with the release of the year’s highest grossing film so far, Bad Boys for Life.

“Developers, companies, and other customers frequently ask us how they can integrate IMDb’s authoritative movie, TV, and celebrity content into their services, and when CNN Business reached out to us about this opportunity we were thrilled to work with them,” said Brian Carver, Head of Content and Licensing for IMDb (www.imdb.com). “CNN Business is able to easily access the weekly box office grosses from Box Office Mojo, and use these numbers alongside other key financial indicators to paint a more complete picture of the health of the American economy.”

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