Help rooms cinema It grew for the third year in a row in Spain Reached 74.9 million viewers, up 26% from 2022Although previous figures PandemicIt was the year when ‘Barbie’ and ‘Campeonex’ became the highest-grossing domestic and foreign films.
According to provisional data announced by the consulting firm Comscore on Friday, December 29, this year the difference between 2015 and 2019, which is the average of the pre-pandemic figures, decreased by 16 points from 1 minus 40. minus percent at the end of fiscal year 2022 by 2023.
HE The best premiere of the year was ‘Barbie’ last July 21With 5.1 million euros in the opening weekend, a period that also constituted the best weekend of the year (from the 21st to the 23rd of that month), with total collections of 11.8 million euros.
It also has a busy week of the year in July. increased audience participation: With a total of 3.8 million viewers from Friday the 21st to Thursday the 27th (film week), it was the highest cinema attendance figure recorded in a week since 2019.
Moreover, this summer, with the help of the phenomenon called ‘Barbenheimer’ (after ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ movies), it became the second best-grossing movie of the last 10 years and the third best movie in terms of audience.
These were the 10 cities with the highest number of spectators: Madrid (20.2%), Barcelona (13.7%), Valencia (6.5%), Alicante (4.3%), Malaga (3.9%), Sevilla (3.7%), Murcia (3.4%), Cadiz (2.8%), Balearic Islands (2.6%) and Vizcaya (2.5%).
The film ‘Campeonex’, directed by Javier Fesser, is at the top of the national cinema ranking, followed by ‘Eight Moroccan Surnames’ and ‘Summer Holidays’. HE spanish cinema It closes 2023 with a 17% market share.
Overall, ‘Barbie’ was the highest-grossing movie of the year, followed by ‘Super Mario Bros.’ He watched ‘The Movie’ and ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’. For the first time since 2019, the four most watched films of the year exceeded the 20 million euro gross limit.
HE Action genre was the most dominant genre This year, comedy and animation followed.