Was thinking about something today with the 2019 box office. I know there has been a bit of talk about how Avengers End Game had helped "correct" things a little with the low box office so far. Often times when you analyze data, your suppose to remove outliers to really get a sense of how things are going, which made me think. Endgame is the very definition of an outlier. I have thought about how poorly the box office would be doing without those numbers, so I did a little research. To me it shows that right now, the 2019 box office is very troubling for studios compared to past years. Going back to 2014 (which is the data I could get from boxofficemojo for this), if you remove the #1 movie from each year, 2019 is the worst year yet (200 million behind the 2nd worst year). In fact, for fun I took out the top two movies from each year (pushing it to say Captain Marvel is an outlier, but I did anyways) and the numbers look worse up to May 23rd (in millions: 2019: 2,962.3; 2018: 3,336.9; 2017: 3,525.5; 2016: 3,533.6; 2015: 3,316.1; 2014 3,341.2). Only 200 million separate the biggest year from the smallest year from 2014 to 2018, but over 350 million separate the worst year in that span (2015) from this year. Obviously the world is changing, but that is a big jump from the a "trend" over the last 5 years to this year.
