Home / Business / “The film industry” summarizes the first half of 2016 in the Russian hire

“The film industry” summarizes the first half of 2016 in the Russian hire

As predicted by critics and analysts, the “Crew” occupied impressive heights in the Russian film distribution. The heroic drama of Nikolai Lebedev looked almost five and a half million viewers. The film was a real event, he has collected half a billion and became the highest-grossing domestic projects in the history of our rental.

“The film industry” summarizes the first half of 2016 in the Russian hire

The figures for the last six months, “the Crew” has proven its competitiveness – was beaten out in the top three favorites, second only to the hit from Disney – “Zeropolis” and superhero action from the Studio Twentieth Century Fox – “Dedpul”. Their results : 2.2 billion and 1.7 billion, respectively. The final General meeting of the “Crew” larger than the initial three times is a very good result and, of course, a significant achievement lies in the creative team – the Director Nikolay Lebedev, producer of Trite.

The results of the first half of 2016 in the Russian hire
But in the rating of domestic films-of locomotives – the “Crew” is far ahead, he by a narrow margin ahead of the new “Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf”. The third series of the popular franchise has earned 749 million rubles. This is a very good indicator, given the over-saturation of the market of foreign releases.

Movie trailer “the Crew”
General cashier at our animation for the first half of 2016 amounted to RUB 1.2 billion. Compared to the same period last year industry “loses” in the income of 2%, and currency – 22,5% ($5 million). This is the result of the fierce competition with Western products. First and foremost, this applies to Hollywood projects such as “Zeropolis”, “Kung fu Panda”, “finding Dory”, “Ice age”. Some excess demand is lost Russian cartoons.

“Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf 3” became the highest grossing Russian animated film of the year
The total charges of our cinema during the first half of 2016 nominally increased to 5.8 billion rubles, which is 3.3% more than for same time in 2015. However, the $ minus 16% or $ 16 million. Half a million people decreased and the number of viewers. The share of Russian movies in theaters declined slightly. Only 1% and amounted to 20.6 percent. All our films sold 23 and a half million tickets. They rose by 5.3% : the average price around the country 248 rubles.

Ahead – potentially grossing premiere of the second half of 2016 : urban fantasy “Night watch,” the Comedy “Groom” with Sergey Svetlakova large-scale project “Scrapper”, a heroic drama “Icebreaker” and “Earthquake” and the historical epic “Viking”. Estimated total box office of these works is estimated at three billion rubles.

The trailer of the film “Duelist”
Rolling the shaft over the first half of 2016 for all the films amounted to 28.2 billion rubles. It’s almost 2 billion more than in the same period of 2015. In same currency terms revenue amounted to nearly $ 400 million. However, compared to the same period last year, nearly 59 million dollars we lost. The audience is growing. The total amount of tickets sold – nearly 112 million is 8 million more than in the same period of 2015.

Check Also

UK house prices fall by 1.8% during year amid higher mortgage costs

Property market weak, says Nationwide, which expects prices to remain flat or drop slightly in …