While the domestic box office revenue is on pace for its best year since the pandemic, film audiences have shrunk. A stronger and more varied slate of films, including non-franchise successes like Obsession and Project Hail Mary, has helped drive box office ​growth this year. Domestic box office revenue reached $6.2 billion through August 2, up 15% from the same period last year, according to media analytics firm Rentrak. In 2019, box office sales topped $7 billion at this point in the year. A combined Paramount and Warner would have made up nearly 11% of the domestic box office ⁠through this ​past weekend, according to Rentrak.