European box offices have yet to recover from COVID-19.
Figures released by the European Audiovisual Observatory on Thursday show that film revenues in 2021 in the EU and UK, although compared to 2020, have fallen sharply from pre-pandemic levels.
Total box office receipts rose by 38.2% to about $3.05 billion (€2.9 billion) a year in the region in 2021, the group said, at least 59% below the average annual revenue recorded for the period. previous. Pandemic period 2017 to 2019. Cinema attendance in the EU and UK, with 394 million tickets sold over the year, was just 40% of the pre-pandemic average.
Viewers who returned to theaters returned to Hollywood blockbusters. Sony superhero movie Spider-Man: There’s no way back home And the launch of MGM/Universal Pictures there is no time for deathHe topped the latest European box office for the James Bond franchise. there is no time for death 34 million tickets were sold in the EU and UK, compared to 27 million Spider man. Only three other films managed to break 10 million in Europe last year, all of them under the American studio name: Warner Bros. / The legendary debut. Dune (14.3 million), from Universal fast and furious 9 (12.1 million) and Sony Poison: Let there be a massacre (10.5 million).
European films only accounted for 26.5% of total revenue, down from 39.5% in 2020 (when US studios put their films on the shelf in anticipation of COVID). garden there is no time for deathA joint UK and US production, last year just four European films sold more than 2 million tickets: French comedy. Kaamelott – Prime Vollet (2.8 million), a British psychological drama ᲛThat (2.4 million), a French crime thriller North BACpseudonym Force (2.2 million) and Danish Dramamedia another round (2.2 million). Together they don’t add up potionIt’s a European perception.
The surge in COVID-19 infections in Europe last fall – caused by the Omicron variant of the virus – forced many countries to close cinemas again or impose capacity restrictions, causing box office sales to plummet. Most cinemas in Europe are now open and restrictions have been lifted across most of the region, and attendance figures in the coming months will better gauge the long-term impact of the pandemic on the industry.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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