First quarter of 2012 brings 14% decrease compared with 2011
- With no new local successes such as Tilt, Bulgarian box office has dropped significantly
2011 brought an amazing 18% increase on 2010, but 2012numbers seem to contradict the happy trend: this year's first quarter shows a 14% decrease in terms of box office and a 16% decrease in terms of admissions.
During the first 12 weeks of this yearn 8.86 million tickets were sold in Bulgarian cinemas, according to numbers made public by the local distributors. The amount brought in was of approximately €3.7m, compared with the €4.27m total from 1.05 million admissions in 2011.
Some of 2012's biggest earners were
A boost came then from The Tourist [+see also:
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According to the National Film Centre, Bulgarian cinemas sold 4.72m tickets in 2011, an amazing step forward compared with the previous year (3.97m admissions). Three domestic releases showed up in the year's top ten grossers - Ilian Djevelekov’s Love.net, with 206,000 admissions, Ivan Mitov's Operation Shmenti Capelli (168,000 admissions) and Chouchkov's Tilt (145,000 admissions).
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