Admissions: total number of tickets sold, referring
to all films screened during the year (not only new releases).
Gross Box Office (GBO): total revenue from ticket sales,
calculated as above, including VAT and/or other taxes.
Exhibitors: number of companies owning movie theatres.
Some companies have different names but belong, directly or indirectly,
for 50% or more to the same owner. Whenever this was known to us, we
have counted these companies as one.
Cinemas: total number of cinema sites.
Screens: total number of screens in cinemas.
Seats: total number of cinema seats.
Number of seats per screen: number of seats divided
by the number of screens.
Number of inhabitants per screen: population divided
by the number of screens.
Frequency per capita: average number of cinema visits
per capita, i.e. the number of admissions divided by the number of inhabitants.
Screening days/playing weeks/screenings: total number
of screening days/playing weeks or screenings during the year in all
cinemas of the country.
Art cinema: cinema designated as such by an association
to which it belongs as programming mainly art films. Only commercial
ones have been counted unless indicated otherwise. See Section 5 of the
Methodological introduction
Screens in art cinemas: total number of screens located
in art cinemas.
Average ticket price: Gross Box Office divided by the
number of admissions.
Maximum ticket price: the highest price paid for a
cinema ticket of any kind.
Business concentration: total of market shares, based
on GBO, of the three leading exhibiting or distributing companies.
Technical equipment: number of screens, unless otherwise
indicated, equipped with the listed systems. The data on Dolby, SDDS,
THX and DTS were supplied directly by the manufacturers.
Advertising receipts: revenues to exhibitors from screen
advertising. VAT: VAT (Value-added Tax) rate. Percentage of net or gross
BO, as indicated.
Music rights/copyrights: percentage of (net or gross)
BO that has to be paid to performing rights societies for the composers,
arrangers and publishers of film music.
Government taxes: taxes, other than VAT and general
company taxes, which cinemas have to pay to the national government (not
including taxes on personal or corporate income).
Local taxes: see above, but to local authorities. E.g.
entertainment tax.
Other: e.g. fees for national film institutes or funds.
Film production: national feature films produced each
year for cinema release including co-productions. The definition of national
films differs from country to country. See Section 6 of the Introduction.
Full-length films: films with duration of 60 minutes
or more.
Short films: films with duration of up to 59 minutes.
Top ten films: the 10 films with the highest number
of admissions (admissions in previous years are not included).
Domestic films: since variations
exist in different countries in respect of the definition of a “domestic” film,
the indications here are based on the respective national sources. See
Section 6 of the Introduction.
Film production companies: total number of production
companies active in the country.
Investments in production: total amount of money invested
in the films produced during the year.
Windows: the period of time that must pass between
the release of a film in one form of media and its next release (e.g.
between theatrical release and video sale or rental).
Number of distributors: total number of active distribution
companies.
Gross distribution revenue: total amount of gross film
rentals.
Average film rental: percentage of net BO paid by exhibitors
to distributors.
Market shares: percentage of GBO produced by domestic
(incl. co-productions), US, European films (excl. national films) or
films of other nationalities respectively.
Distributors’ market shares: market shares of
US, European and national distributors respectively, i.e. the percentage
of total distribution revenue brought in by US, national and other European
distributors respectively.
Note: As is customary in statistics, data which is
not available is marked by a dot (.). Figures of exactly zero are shown
as a dash (-) and those approaching zero by 0 or 0,0 or 0,00. See the
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