2007 stats

[Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano]

I know that comparisons are usually weak, but I can only feel healthy envy
of Japanese Cinema (and its audience) when I see that in Spain Spanish
Cinema shares only 14 % and the rest is for foreign cinema
(predominantly* *from
USA).

May be in some other life..., japanese reborn.

Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
Profesor titular
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Ciencias de la Comunicación
Madrid, España.
www.urjc.es

2008/1/31, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>:
>
> Just a quick note, but the Motion Picture Producers Association of
> Japan released their statistics for the film industry for 2007.
>
> http://www.eiren.org/toukei/index.html
>
> The results are not great, but not bad either. Total box office went
> down 2.2% to 198 billion yen, with attendance declining 0.8% to 163
> million. Japanese films failed to beat out foreign films at the box
> office, unlike last year (which was the first time that had been done
> since 1985). The share was 47.7% for Japanese and 52.3% for foreign
> films. The box office for Japanese films fell 12.3% from 2006. The
> number of films slightly declined, as did the average ticket price,
> while the number of screens continues to increase.
>
> 15 Japanese films earned more than 2 billion yen at the BO, the same
> number as 2006. Of the top 11 films, 10 were distributed by Toho,
> with Hero, Pocket Monsters, Always II, Saiyuki, and Bushi no ichibun
> being the 5 to top 4 billion. The fact that business as a whole is
> not consistently growing, that the average BO per screen continues to
> decline, and that Toho retains its almost monopolistic dominance, are
> all signs for concern.
>
> But then again, Japanese cinema's take of 94 billion yen is the
> second best this decade, indicating that 2006 was not a total fluke.
> It is also a respectable number going against Pirates of the
> Caribbean, Harry Potter, and Spiderman. 47.7% was also the second
> best figure since 1988.
>
> Other comments?
>
>
> Aaron Gerow
> Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program
> Assistant Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
> 53 Wall Street, Room 316
> PO Box 208363
> New Haven, CT 06520-8363
> USA
> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
> Fax: 1-203-432-6764
> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
>
>
>
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Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
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