THE EUROPEAN CINEMA CHARTS |
Frequency per capita and top films 2018 in Europe Click on the map and, where available, you will obtain the titles of the top films in each country
Admissions figures for 2018 confirm the crucial role of domestic films On 6 February MEDIA Salles published the 2018 figures on admissions to European cinemas. As you will probably remember, the 36 countries for which MEDIA Salles reported statistics revealed an overall dip of 3.9%, after a decidedly positive 2017. However, this hiccup did not affect all countries: positive or even record results were to be seen on a variety of territories, even with very different characteristics. If, on the one hand, experts in the sector are well aware that cinema-going is subject to regular cycles of what the English define "an attack of hiccups", referring to their sporadic nature, on the other, we must not fail to investigate which factors have influenced these dips or, vice-versa, increases in spectators. And although - with figures that are not yet complete or definitive - this investigation may appear premature, both factors external to the sector and other, more specific ones can be identified. Amongst the former, the climate is certainly one: the early arrival and/or persistence of fine weather and high temperatures in the summer months, even in Northern Europe, certainly encouraged leisure activities to favour the open air. Just as the coincidence with the World Cup football championship may have negatively influenced peoples’ inclination to visit the cinema. Certain social or political phenomena may also influence cinema-going: it seems no coincidence, for example, that on the six Saturdays of protests by the gilets jaunes at the end of 2018, Parisian movie theatres recorded fewer admissions than the previous year. On the other hand, even in this initial stage of analysis, the fact once again emerges that an offer of domestic films with strong popular appeal can have a positive effect on cinema-going. Amongst the countries that closed 2018 with a plus sign, appears Denmark, for instance, which, after two negative years, grows by |