European cinema field workplace and admissions fell barely in 2024 in comparison with the earlier yr, in accordance with figures launched right this moment by European commerce group the Worldwide Union of Cinemas (Unic).
Admissions decreased by 1.4% throughout Unic’s 39 territories, with field workplace down simply 0.3%. Whole admissions had been 975.5m, with field workplace simply over €7.2bn.
Unic experiences that the US actors and writers strikes “had a lingering impression within the first half of the yr”, however that takings remained on par with 2023 “regardless of the powerful context”.
Admissions had been up in a number of Unic territories, together with UK-Eire, France, Greece, Turkey and Ukraine.
Nationwide movies
With a knock-on delay on US releases, a number of European territories noticed document market share for native movies in 2024.
Bulgaria had a document 24.4% market share for nationwide titles, 3 times larger than in 2023; and a year-on-year field workplace enhance of 10.8% with admissions up 4.1%. Standout titles included Dimitar Dimitrov’s Gundi: Legend Of Love, a biopic of Nineteen Sixties footballer Georgi ‘Gundi’ Asparuhov.
Finland had a document 31.3% nationwide market share, with over 2m admissions for native movies. Tiina Lymi’s native title Stormskerry Maja, a few 17-year-old lady pressured into being a fisherman’s spouse towards her will, was the nation’s high movie by admissions with 470,000, forward of Disney blockbuster Inside Out 2.
Nationwide market share in Lithuania elevated by 5.4% to twenty.2; whereas in Poland it was up over 4% to 23%.
Admissions had been up 1% in France throughout 2024, with 10 native movies surpassing 1m entries. A Little One thing Additional, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo and Beating Hearts bought over 25m tickets collectively; whereas Monsieur Aznavour, Emilia Perez and Autumn and the Black Jaguar every topped 1m. The nation recorded the second-best nationwide market share of all 39 Unic territories, at 44%; behind Turkey, which had a 50% nationwide market share and recorded an enormous 77.6% enhance in field workplace to 4,994m Turkish lira.
UK admissions grew 2.3% to 126.5m, spurred by a powerful November and December when admissions had been up 77% and 36% respectively. Share for native titles was up from 10% to 17%, by means of movies corresponding to Studiocanal’s Again To Black and Paddington In Peru.
Russia – a Unic member – noticed a 19% enhance in its field workplace in comparison with 2023, as much as ₽46,340m; though this got here largely by means of elevated ticket costs, with admissions solely up 1%.
Territories that struggles included Cyprus, the place field workplace was down 15.2% in 2024; Austria, the place it dropped 10.5%; and Luxembourg, down 10.3%. Field workplace and admissions had been additionally down throughout Nordic territories, dropping 4.2% and a pair of.2% respectively in Denmark; 4.3% and 5.5% in Finland; 9.5% and 12.7% in Norway; and eight.2% and seven.9% in Sweden.
Nationwide Cinema Days returned in international locations together with France, with the best-attended version of La Fete du Cinema at 4.65m admissions, up 50% on 2023.
Unic has additionally highlighted projections from Gower Road Analytics, which estimate international field workplace will develop by $2.5bn in 2025 to achieve $33bn, with EMEA at $9.1bn.
“Our message is obvious: proceed to convey high quality, various and well-marketed movies to the massive display screen and the audiences will comply with,” stated Laura Houlgatte, Unic CEO.
