A total of 105.5 million spectators attended during 2019 the cinemas Spanish, who recorded a collection of 624.1 million euros, which is the best figure in the last ten years, according to Comscore this Thursday in a statement.
By province, the ten provinces with the highest number of spectators were: Madrid (19.6%), Barcelona (13.1%), Valencia (6.2%), Alicante (4.1%), Seville (3.87%), Malaga (3.79%), Murcia (3.14%), Balearic Islands (2.8%), Cádiz (2.71%) and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2, 64%).
Compared to the previous year, attendance in 2019 was eight percent higher than in 2018, while revenue was seven percent more.
‘The Lion King’ has been the highest grossing film of the year, with 37.2 million euros in revenue and 6.4 million viewers, followed by Joker (30 million and 5.1 million attendees), ‘Avengers: Endgame’ (29.2 million and 4.6 million viewers), ‘Aladdin’ (25.3 million and 4.7 million viewers) and ‘Toy Story’ (21.3 million euros and 3.7 million viewers).
In the top 10 it also appears Frozen 2‘as the sixth most viewed film (18.2 million euros and 3.06 million viewers), followed in this ranking by ‘Dumbo’(14.5 million and 2.4 million viewers), the Spanish ‘Father there is only one’(14.2 million and 2.5 million viewers), ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ (almost 14 million euros and 2.1 million attendees) and ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ (13.5 million and 2.3 million viewers).
Spanish cinema, the lowest figure in 6 years
As for the ranking of Spanish films, the family comedy ‘Father there is only one’, with 14.2 million euros in revenue and 2.5 million viewers, has been the most watched in 2019, a year that totals 91 , 7 million euros of the total of Spanish cinema, as collected by Europa Press from the data available until December 22, published by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
According to Comscore, during 2019 more than 15.9 million viewers went to movie theaters to see Spanish cinema, which ends 2019 with a market share of 15 percent, the lowest since 2013, when it accounted for 13 percent collection. Since then, Spanish cinema reached its best data with a 24 percent share, which has progressively decreased.
Comscore data indicates that ‘I leave it whenever I want’, also a comedy, has been the second most watched film of the year, with 11.3 million euros and 1.9 million viewers, followed by ‘If I were rich’ ( 11.3 million and 1.8 million viewers), ‘While the war lasts’ (11 million euros and 1.9 million viewers) or ‘Pain and glory’ (5.7 million viewers and less than a million assistants).
Likewise, ‘Under the same roof’ has been the sixth most viewed film (3.6 million and 600,000 viewers), followed by ‘Losing East’ (three million euros and more than 480,000 viewers), ‘Los Japan’ (2 , 7 million euros and 478,000 attendees), ‘Whoever kills iron’ (2.5 million and 425,000 spectators) and ‘The silence of the white city’ (2.3 million and 458,000 attendees).
Six out of ten spectators choose weekend
As for the daily distribution of spectator attendance to movie theaters, Comscore notes that it remains unchanged. So, six out of ten spectators went to theaters over the weekend.
On Wednesday, October 30, coinciding with the Film Festival, the best day of the year was recorded, with 1,026,655 spectators, thus exceeding one million spectators, something that had not happened since 2017.
The best weekend of the year was from April 26 to 29 with 14 million euros and 2.1 million viewers, coinciding with the premiere of ‘Avengers: Endgame’, the movie that starred in the best premiere of the year with 10.4 million grossing the weekend of its premiere.
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