International markets

In 2019, six of the top ten films at the Dutch box office were from Disney – The Lion King, Avengers: Endgame, Aladdin, Frozen II, Captain Marvel and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The other four, as well as the next ten, are all Hollywood releases.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. In a departure from the trend in other countries, the top-grossing film on the Italian charts in 2020 is Tolo Tolo, a comedy about migration directed by and starring Luca Medici, aka Checco Zalone, the country’s most popular comedian, who regularly commands the top of the charts with his broad farces.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. There seems to be a malaise in the European box office for 2019, carrying over from 2018’s 4% dip, and Spain is no exception.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. With the Bolsonaro government taking power in early 2019, Brazil’s right-wing president unleashed furious attacks on the local film industry, threatening to shutter the Agência Nacional do Cinema (ANCINE), the federal film funding agency if it didn’t comply with government-mandated censorship.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. 2018 was not a good year at the German box office.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. Just last year, the Guardian Australia lamented that Australian film and TV was fighting for its life as Hollywood blockbusters made up 84% of the country’s box office.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. For the week ending November 3, Mexico was one of the countries that is bailing out a US flop, Terminator: Dark Fate.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. In a report published by Northwestern University and the Doha Film Institute in 2014, based on a survey of residents in the UAE, Qatar, Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, half the respondents said they regularly watch Hollywood movies, but 34% said they were “harmful to morality.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. In Nigeria, whose film industry is called Nollywood, 2018 was a great year for box office returns – 5 billion Naira ($13.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. The French are the biggest movie-goers in Europe, they have the highest number of screens per capita (one per 31 persons) and young people go more often than older ones.