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Box Office - Italy - Gomorrah and Il Divo scale the charts
2008-06-07 12:00:05Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Gomorrah rose quickly to the top of the box office following its May 16 release, and in its third week is, according to Cinetel, the top Italian grosser with €1.87m (and an overall €6.67m by June 1), taking second position after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Distributed by RAI Cinema on 383...
Box Office - Netherlands - Independent Films rides wave of local success
2008-06-17 05:00:08This year is shaping up to be a very good one for Dutch films at the local box office, with distributor Independent Films especially profiting from excellent reviews and sales for their local titles. In fact, the Amsterdam-based company obtained a market share of over 23% for the first five months of the year, effectively making it the biggest distributor in the country, while some of their...
Box Office - France - First half of 2008 registers 100.8m admissions
2008-07-08 05:00:08The results are encouraging for French cinemas at the end of the first half of 2008, which closed with 100.87m admissions according to estimated figures published by the National Film Centre (CNC). Representing an increase of 7% compared to the same period in 2007, this result is the second best first semester of the last decade (after the 102m for the record year 2004, which closed with...
Box Office - Spain - Spanish film takes off
2008-07-11 05:00:07After 2007 - one of the worst years for Spanish film, both in terms of box office and market shares - the first half of 2008 is looking hopeful, with excellent box office results. Indeed, earnings for the first six months of this year have doubled compared to the same period last year, according to figures published by the Ministry of Culture. Between January 1 and June 22, Spanish features...
Box Office - UK - British films rake in $3.3 billion globally
2008-07-23 05:00:14British films took $3.3bn globally - equal to 700 million admissions - in 2007, up 50% from 2006, according to the UK Film Council's (UKFC) Statistical Yearbook. However, the take is lower than 2005's record breaking $3.6bn. British films accounted for 29% of the total UK box office out of 516 films released, up from 19% in 2006 with seven of the top 20 films at the UK box office in 2007...
Box Office - Norway - Local films snag record market share in first half of 2008
2008-07-24 05:00:18For the first time ever, two local films - The Kautokeino Rebellion and Long Flat Balls II - have been driving admissions up in Norway, and never before have so many local films fared so well during the first six months of the year. At the end of March Norwegian films had already reached 1,343,693 admissions and by the end of June attendance figures had passed 5.1 million, for a record 26%...
Box Office - Czech Republic - Bathory proves exception to rule
2008-08-12 05:00:05Bathory, the historical thriller from veteran director Juraj Jakubisko, is heroically fighting a hard battle at the Czech box office. Since its July 10 premiere, Bathory has seen over 200,000 admissions in the Czech Republic and more than 100,000 in Slovakia. The film is on top of box-office charts in both countries, outgrossing even Pixar's international hit Kung Fu Panda, despite having...
Box Office - France - Gomorrah gets off to an excellent start
2008-08-23 05:00:06Having garnered 140,876 admissions in its first week on release in French theatres, Italian director Matteo Garrone's compelling Gomorrah (see Focus) has got off to an impressive start. Winner of the Grand Prize at the latest Cannes Film Festival, the title boasts the second highest per screen average (1164 viewers), after US blockbuster The Dark Knight (1551 viewers). Launched by Le...
Box Office - France - Summer success for Le premier jour du reste de ta vie
2008-08-30 05:00:10The big surprise this August on French cinema screens is the remarkable resistance shown by Rémi Bezançon's Le premier jour du reste de ta vie (see article). The title, released on July 23 on 261 screens through StudioCanal, has in five weeks attracted 729,000 filmgoers on a combination of 302 prints from its second week. Thanks to excellent word-of-mouth, this insightful, amusing and...
Box Office - France - Canet and Kassovitz attract U.S. audiences
2008-09-06 05:00:12After its successful UK theatrical run last summer (distribution: Revolver Entertainment), Guillaume Canet's Tell No One is now attracting U.S. filmgoers. The feature - released by Music Box on July 6 on six screens - which had drawn 3 million to screens in France and won four Césars in 2007 (including Best Director) - has totalled $4.38m in receipts at the end of its ninth week of release in...
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