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Box Office - Norway - Record 22.5% local market share in 2008
2009-01-19 09:01:24Last year was the best since 2003 for Norwegian films, which upped their total admissions by almost 50% from 2007 to almost 2.7 million in 2008, according to preliminary figures published by Norwegian cinema association Film & Kino. The WWII drama Max Manus, released on December 19, immediately took fourth place in the Norwegian top 20 of 2008, alongside three other local films: Nils...
Box Office - Italy - Market share rose in 2008
2009-01-20 09:00:25Paolo Protti, president of ANEC, anticipated the definitive 2008 ANICA data during the festival “Per il Cinema Italiano”, held in Bari from January 12-17. The market share of Italian cinema rose from 27% in 2007 to 28% in 2008 (and was 20% in 2006), without taking into consideration co-productions. This positive trend is not reflected, however, in audience figures: admissions...
Industry - UK - 2008: Production slowdown mars buoyant box office
2009-01-22 09:00:24Box office collections in the UK and Ireland rose to £949.5m in 2008, up 5% from 2007 according to latest UK Film Council (UKFC) statistics. However, this good news was tempered by the fact that production spend totalled just over £578m - down 23% from 2007's £753m. The number of feature films made were down to 111 from 2007's 126. Nonetheless, spend on indigenous British films rose by...
Box Office - Belgium - 2008 sees box office split
2009-01-22 09:00:24Erik Van Looy's Loft has now exceeded the 1m admissions mark, a major achievement in Belgium. The last Belgian title to surpass 1m admissions was Koko Flanel in 1990, a bygone era when the serious competition from DVDs and legal and illegal downloads was still just a bad dream. It is now probable that Loft will outstrip the 1,082,000 viewers attracted by its predecessor, especially as the...
Box Office - Greece - Market share rises amidst dropping admissions
2009-01-23 09:00:33Though 2008 ended with a substantial drop of 18% in general admissions, local films managed to stand their ground, thus achieving a slight rise in market share, from last year's 16.2% to this year's 19.6%. Out of a total of 9.7 million tickets sold, 1.9 million were for homegrown titles. Mamma Mia!, a US/UK co-production, soared on top of the yearly box office with 625,000 admissions,...
Box Office - Italy - Italians leads weekend charts
2009-01-27 09:00:09Giovanni Veronesi's Italians, released last Friday on 690 screens by FilmAuro, is at the top of the weekend's Cinetel box office chart with just over €4.7m grossed. In tenth place with €279,459 is the Italian/Spanish co-production Imago Mortis by Stefano Bessoni. The top 25 films include the UK titles Easy Virtue, Slumdog Millionaire, The Boy with the Striped Pyjamas and The...
Box Office - Finland - Local market share up 3%
2009-01-27 09:00:09With 1.5 million admissions, 2008 was a good year for Finnish films, which upped their local market by 3% to 23%, almost returning to the 2006 level of 24%. As in 2007, three Finnish films made it to local Top Ten, all distributed by Nordisk Film: children's film Ricky Rapper (209,506 admissions); animated family film Niko and the Way to the Stars (199,189), which took many European...
Box Office - Italy - Positive 2008 results could worsen in 2009
2009-01-27 09:00:09The Italian market is holding strong according to ANICA's annual report. In 2008, the number of Italian productions increased and overall box office revenue declined only slightly from 2007, but many worry over the fate of public funding. Says Riccardo Tozzi, president of ANICA producers: "There was a huge rise in films produced - an overall 154, 30 more than in 2007 - due above all to the...
Box Office - Denmark - 33% market share for local films in 2008
2009-01-27 09:00:09Thanks to the phenomenal success of the WWII resistance film Flame & Citron, seen by one in seven Danes over the age of 15, the local market share for Danish films reached 33% in 2008, up 7% from 2007. Admissions for Danish films passed the 4.3 million mark, a level not seen since 1976 according to the Danish Film Institute (DFI). With 667,601 admissions, Flame & Citron, produced by Nimbus...
Box Office - Sweden - 20% market share for local films
2009-01-30 09:00:29General admissions in Sweden increased by 1.5% in 2008, to 15.1 million, pushed upwards by studio tent poles such as Mamma Mia!, seen by a record 1.8m viewers. Swedish films, however, saw a 1.5% drop, to end the year with 3 million admissions and 20% of the market, against 21.6% in 2007. According to preliminary figures just released by the Swedish Film Institute, only two Swedish...
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