The comfortable red armchairs, the wonderfully smelling popcorn, the perfectly mixed sound and an extra large screen that gives you the feeling of being in the middle of the action: going to the cinema is an experience that stimulates all human senses. The cinema year 2023 could shine with a number of film gems. Here you can find out how the Swiss film industry fared last year.
The Federal Statistical Office published the new film and cinema statistics on Monday. By 2023, Swiss cinemas will be approximately there 10.5 million recordings included. Since the end of the corona pandemic, cinema visits have risen steadily again. Compared to 2022 last year 21 percent more Admissions have been sold. However, the pre-Corona level has not yet been fully reached. Compared to 2019, 16 percent fewer tickets were still sold. Since the end of the corona pandemic, the numbers have risen sharply again.
Swiss cinemas recorded a strong increase in attendance for blockbusters in 2023. The four films Barbie, Avatar: The Way of Water, the Super Mario Bros. movie And Oppenheimer almost had 2023 alone a quarter of all admissions generated.
This trend is also reflected in the graph of cinema visits per calendar week. Early last year the film was attractive Avatar In the first and second calendar week, people go to the cinemas. Calendar weeks 30 to 32 also had an above-average number of visitors: the two films Barbie and Oppenheimer were shown in cinemas during this period.
Compared to previous years, 100 more films were shown in cinemas in 2023, which amounts to approximately 3,405 cinema screenings. There was a two percent decrease in new releases shown compared to 2022.
The market share of the Swiss films 2023 stand at 6.3 percent bigger than last year. Especially in Italian-speaking Switzerland, it exceeded pre-Corona levels. In 2023, Ticino residents went to the cinema for Swiss productions about 2.5 times more often than in 2019. The film was responsible for this Bon Schuur Ticino by Peter Luisi. The film generated almost half of all cinema visits in Italian-speaking Switzerland.
In German-speaking Switzerland, the domestic market share is considerably larger than in the other language regions. For more than half of the Swiss films shown in cinemas last year, the original language was German or Swiss German.
The Cinema prices have increased slightly in the past year. The average Swiss entrance fee to a cinema is average 16.30 francswhich corresponds to an increase of 2.6 percent.
Since the 1960s, the number of cinemas in Switzerland has decreased sharply: there were a total of 2,023 cinemas 260 cinemas active. Last year there were only 616 cinemas with a total of 97,000 seats. For comparison: in 1964 there were 646 theaters available throughout Switzerland with a total of 234,000 cinema seats.
Last year, one film in particular captured the hearts of moviegoers: Barbie. The film brought 480,185 people to the cinemas. Achieved second place Avatar: The Way of Water with 421,291 moviegoers. took third place The Super Mario Bros. Movie with 362,423 cinema visits.
The most successful Swiss film of last year was Bon Schuur Ticino by Peter Luisi. The Swiss production brought some 105,125 moviegoers to the cinemas.
The most successful Swiss film since 1976 is the feature film with 942,285 cinema visitors the Swiss makers from 1978. What’s next the autumn crocuses with 596,443 tickets sold and My name is Eugène with 580,870 moviegoers.
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Source: Watson
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