In the Year of Our Lord 2024, only 817.9 million domestic movie tickets were sold. Back in 2019, 1.225 billion — with a “B” — tickets were sold. That’s a 34 percent collapse in just five years.
If you go back 20 years to 2004, ticket sales have dropped from 1.495 billion to 817.9 million, or an astonishing 46 percent.
I wonder at the long term impact of the LA fires on Hollywood. There has been an ongoing California population and business exodus, will the movie business’s exit gain momentum?
