GLOBAL
BOX OFFICE
"It's not as rare as you might think for an independent movie to be shown in theaters, but it's definitely hard to make money that way." (IndieWire, 2019)
As we breakdown the box office (2019), you'll come to find how independent 'indie' films (≤$10M) tend to thrive. It's just the distributors don't want to give them a chance.
** download our complete 2019 Global dataset, here
** view our box office articles, here
EMEA Film Market (2019):
$7.98bn (Europe)
$725.2m (Middle East)
$131.1m (Africa)
Gross Box Office
$8.836bn
1bn (Europe)
78.5m (Middle East)
26.5m (Africa)
Admissions
1.1bn
33,956 (Europe)
2,228 (Middle East)
1,142 (Africa)
Screens
37,326
Sources: BFI / MEDIA Salles (Marché du Film)
Europe - EU and UK
Middle East - Iran, UAE, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon
Africa - Egypt, Morocco, South Africa
EMEA
BOX OFFICE
"It's not as rare as you might think for an independent movie to be shown in theaters, but it's definitely hard to make money that way." (IndieWire, 2019)
As we breakdown the box office (2019), you'll come to find how independent 'indie' films (≤$10M) tend to thrive. It's just the distributors don't want to give them a chance.
** download our complete 2019 EMEA dataset, here
** view our box office articles, here
Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA)
On average, Africa produced 5,500 films per year, according to the source's report conducted between November 2020 and May 2021. (Statista, Jan. 2023)