Audience to movie theaters increased by 45% in 2022, but still far from pre-pandemic figures

This help cinemas in 2022 a rose 45 percent over the previous year Up to 61.2 million viewers and box office revenue reached 379 million eurosAccording to ComScore’s provisional data on December 29, it increased by 49 percent compared to 2021.

However, the average box office and viewership for 2022 is still Far from the 2015-2019 periodAccording to said data provided by FECE (Federation of Spanish Cinemas) to Europa Press, because it is 39 percent lower than before the pandemic.

‘Best Premiere of the Year’Avatar: Sense of Water’It premiered on December 16. €21.8 million. The most-watched week of the year was recorded in December, with a total viewership of 2.4 million, from Friday 23rd to Thursday, December 29th (movie week). Wednesday, December 28 was the record attendance day of the post-pandemic era with over 620,000 spectators.

This provinces with the most spectators These are: Madrid (20.6%), Barcelona (14.2%), Valencia (6.5%), Alicante (4.1%), Seville (3.8%), Malaga (3.8%), Murcia (3.3%), Cádiz (2.9%), Balearic Islands (2.4%) and Vizcaya (2.4%).

Avatar and Santiago Segura, box office leaders

in Spanish cinema, santiago vault became the highest-grossing director With his movie ‘Padre no hay más que uno 30’, which was released on 14 July, he managed to collect 15,606,103 million euros and a total of 2,706,823 viewers.

‘Tadeo Jones 3. The Emerald Table’, which was released on August 26 with 11,798.257 million euros and 2,031,242 viewers; ‘God’s Crooked Lines’, which was released on October 6, earned 5,724,928 million euros and 907,563 viewers.

At the general level,Avatar: Sense of Water‘ was the highest-grossing film of the year, followed by ‘Minions: The Origin of Gru’ (20.775.435 euros) and ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ (18.157.971 euros).

For the first time since 2019, all ten most-watched films of the year break the €10m barrier in collection, as highlighted by FECE. These are, in addition to the three mentioned above, ‘Dad only has one 3’ (15,606,103 Euros); “Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness” (13,130,862 euros); ‘Uncharted’ (12,230,193 euros); ‘Tadeo Jones 3. Emerald table’ (11,798,257 euros); “Thor: Love and Thunder” (11,607.167); “Batman” (10,831,396); and “Top Gun: Maverick” (10,581,530).

The action genre was most dominant this year, followed by animation and comedy.

Spanish cinema goes backwards but remains minimal

on his behalf Spanish Cinema closed 2022 with a collection of 82,022,550 million Euros and 13,694,836 viewers, 42,309,484 euros and almost double the 2021 figures of 7,107,930 viewers.

However, they are still far from numbers as in 2019, a year when it was possible to exceed 94 million euros with over 16 million viewers; or those in 2018 with a total of €103,799,709 million and 17,622,470 viewers.

Source: Informacion

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